Posted by Long Zhao, Senior Research Scientist, and Ting Liu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research An astounding number of videos are available on the Web, covering a variety of content from everyday moments people share to historical moments to scientific observations, each of which contains a unique record of the world. The right tools could help researchers analyze these videos, transforming how we understand the world around us.
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Shot‑scraper 1.12 adds WebP support, allowing users to capture web page screenshots in WebP format with an optional quality setting. The new --quality flag controls compression, while omitting it produces lossless images. WebP screenshots are reported to be significantly smaller than JPEG or PNG equivalents.
Simon Willison created an animated transition tool that morphs a map from the Mercator projection to the Equal Earth projection using D3. The project was inspired by the recent UN vote on the Equal Earth map projection and was built with GPT‑6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. It showcases how modern AI and web technologies can visualize complex geospatial transformations.
Posted by Yang Zhao, Senior Software Engineer, and Tingbo Hou, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Core ML Text-to-image diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating high-quality images from text prompts. However, leading models feature billions of parameters and are consequently expensive to run, requiring powerful desktops or servers (e.
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arXiv:2607. 15298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A conventional codec stores a video as compressed pixel data.
By Nishan Khanal, Saugat Neupane, Abhinav Chalise, Nimesh Gopal Pradhan, Dinesh Baniya Kshatri
The release of llm 0.34 introduces a new feature that enhances log output by including response duration in both milliseconds and a human‑readable format. The short log view now contains a dedicated duration_ms field. Additionally, the update incorporates multiple bug fixes and a notable performance boost to llm logs, attributed to waveplate integration.
The release of llm-gemini 0.34 introduces the new Gemini 3.8‑Flash model, available in low, medium, and high thinking levels, and fixes an issue where async responses failed to record the resolved model version. The update also notes that Google has released Gemini 3.8‑Flash (and a restricted 3.8 Flash Cyber version) today, with example outputs (pelicans) demonstrating the model’s performance across the different thinking levels. The author highlights Gemini Flash’s speed, low cost, and competence in generating HTML, JavaScript, and Markdown‑SVG content, citing a 13‑second, 1.8‑cent example of an HTML output.
Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1. 4's new Bun.
Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5. 6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents.
The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.
The paper investigates whether large language models (LLMs) can design video coding tools, focusing on the Planar mode used in video coding standards. Using a generation-and-evaluation loop, the LLM generates new Planar predictors, which are then tested in the Fraunhofer Versatile Video Encoder (VVenC) and the Enhanced Compression Model (ECM). Results show that the LLM-generated mode can outperform the conventional Planar mode, achieving a 0.18% bitrate saving with a 0.4% complexity increase, and that similar gains are possible when integrating the new predictor into ECM under low‑resolution settings.
By Yingwen Zhang, Meng Wang, Liqiang He, Shiqi Wang