Epic Games has acquired Meshcapade, a German AI digital human 3D modeling company derived from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Epic Games will also open an office in Tübingen, where Meshcapade is located. Meshcapade is based on the SMPL (Skinned Multi-Person Linear) human model developed by the institute. This technology is based on…
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT now offers multi-tiered subscription services to meet the needs of different users. The free version of ChatGPT has feature and usage limits and includes advertising. The paid subscription, ChatGPT Go, is priced at $8 per month and provides basic paid services while retaining some limitations and ads. The mainstream version, ChatGPT Plus,…
DuckDuckGo announced in a blog post yesterday (February 19th) that its privacy AI platform Duck.ai, has launched an AI image editing function. This function is free to use (with a limit) and can be used directly without registering an account. DuckDuckGo launched its image generation feature at the end of 2025, and to further lower…
OpenAI released an announcement on February 13, 2026, announcing the addition of advanced security settings for ChatGPT. OpenAI states that as AI systems begin to take on more complex tasks, especially in scenarios involving web pages and external applications, security risks are surging. One emerging and prominent risk is “prompt injection.” In this type of…
Cloudflare announced the launch of the Markdown for Agents feature, which can convert HTML-formatted web page content into Markdown format, which is more suitable for AI crawlers or intelligent agents, improving the readability of content for AI. Cloudflare states that HTML-formatted web page content is traditionally geared towards human users rather than AI, and its…
Faraday Future announced on Friday that it has launched its first series of embodied intelligent robots and opened non-refundable, non-binding pre-orders, with the first deliveries expected by the end of this month. Regarding its robotics business, the company is advancing key tasks, including mass production preparation, customized development, testing and verification, and AI data training,…
ByteDance released its next-generation video creation model, Seedance 2.0, this Thursday. Seedance 2.0 adopts a unified multimodal audio and video joint generation architecture, supports four modal inputs: text, images, audio, and video, and integrates the most comprehensive multimodal content reference and editing capabilities in the industry. Compared to version 1.5, Seedance 2.0 has significantly improved…
Scott Shambaugh, a human reviewer and maintainer of the well-known open-source plotting library matplotlib, was subjected to a retaliatory attack after refusing a request from an OpenClaw agent to merge code (submitted around February 10). The matplotlib project is a widely used data visualization library for the Python programming language. Scott Shambaugh is one of…
