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Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Leahy oversaw Glossier’s shift from online DTC upstart to a more traditional brand available not just at its own stores and website but also through retailers like Sephora, Mecca Brands and Space NK. That move was not without growing pains. The company resorted to a second round of layoffs in less than a year shortly after announcing its Sephora partnership in 2022, its first wholesale deal. Glossier is now poised for further growth, and Leahy called out Walsh’s…

On September 12, IT Home reported that ByteDance’s Volcano Engine announced the launch of the command line AI Agent: veCLI, which seamlessly integrates the Doubao Large Model 1.6. Developers can directly access the Volcano Ark large model and Volcano Cloud products from the terminal. In terms of technical architecture, veCLI adopts a ‘Think-Act’ loop mechanism (ReAct), enabling the AI assistant to perform multi-step reasoning and problem-solving like a developer. veCLI not only calls the Doubao Large Model seamlessly, but also integrates third-party models such as Kimi-K2 and DeepSeek v3.1 for user selection. Additionally, veCLI integrates Volcano Engine MCP Server, helping…

Not long ago, the internet defined how we searched, learned, and worked. School projects meant browsing endless links, while college assignments pushed students to dig deeper into digital sources. Now, in the age of intelligence, AI is transforming this journey, helping professionals analyse data, automate routine tasks, and make faster, sharper decisions. Beyond workplaces too, it’s embedded in daily life, from shopping recommendations and real-time translations to wearables that track our health. AI is no longer a distant idea; it’s quietly shaping the choices and opportunities for students, professionals, parents, and retirees alike.Yet, despite this growing presence, many people still…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Consumer-focused investment firm Bansk Group has acquired a majority stake in skin care brand Byoma, according to a press release. Bansk acquired the stake in Byoma from private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners for an undisclosed sum. Under Bansk’s ownership, Byoma will continue to be led by Marc Elrick, founder and CEO of the skin care company, as well as the brand’s existing leadership team. Dive Insight: Byoma helps build out Bansk’s beauty portfolio, which also includes hair care brands Amika, Eva NYC…

Gaussian Splatting (GS), a recent technique for converting discrete points into continuous spatial representations, has shown promising results in 3D scene modeling and 2D image super-resolution. In this paper, we explore its untapped potential for image inpainting, which demands both locally coherent pixel synthesis and globally consistent semantic restoration. We propose the first image inpainting framework based on 2D Gaussian Splatting, which encodes incomplete images into a continuous field of 2D Gaussian splat coefficients and reconstructs the final image via a differentiable rasterization process. The continuous rendering paradigm of GS inherently promotes pixel-level coherence in the inpainted results. To improve…

QbitAI has learned that the Qwen teamhas released its next-generation model architecture—Qwen3-Next. This update brings a preview version of Qwen3.5 and open-sources the Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base model. This model has achieved significant performance improvements while drastically reducing inference costs, indicating a new trend in the development of large models. Innovative Hybrid Architecture: GatedDeltaNet and Hybrid Attention Mechanism One of the core improvements of Qwen3-Next is its innovative hybrid attention mechanism. To address the limitations of linear attention in processing long contexts and the high overhead of standard attention calculations, the Qwen team introduced GatedDeltaNet. GatedDeltaNet excels in contextual learning capability and employs…

But you don’t want any image—you want the image you specified, typically with a text prompt. And so the diffusion model is paired with a second model—such as a large language model (LLM) trained to match images with text descriptions—that guides each step of the cleanup process, pushing the diffusion model toward images that the large language model considers a good match to the prompt.  An aside: This LLM isn’t pulling the links between text and images out of thin air. Most text-to-image and text-to-video models today are trained on large data sets that contain billions of pairings of text…

OpenAI is about to clear a major hurdle, freeing the startup to pursue an ambitious and expensive “full stack” strategy that could catapult it into the Big Tech big leagues or spiral the AI pioneer into a financial ball of flames.The startup said late Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding to end a contractual fight with Microsoft. This will create a new corporate structure that helps OpenAI issue traditional equity, making it easier to raise the mountain of cash needed to pursue its dreams.”Beyond boring corporate governance things, let’s talk a little bit about the business,” OpenAI CFO Sarah…

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about.  From Chewy’s latest fashions to Office Depot’s new promise, here’s our closeout for the week. What you may have missed Mary Dillon, Frank Bracken and more depart Foot Locker as deal closes CEO Mary Dillon, President Frank Bracken and other members of Foot Locker’s executive team left…

That lab, owned by IBM, is in pole position in a new race between Big Blue, Google, Microsoft and a horde of startups. Their goal? “Quantum advantage”—the point at which quantum computers exceed the abilities of the best conventional ones. Yes, good old IBM is holding its own with the trillion-dollar competition. IBM hasn’t been associated with breakthrough innovation since its Watson AI won “Jeopardy!” in 2011. But quantum computing, which could see a breakthrough to commercialization by 2030, gives the 114-year-old stalwart of business computing a chance to reclaim some of its past glory. It is working on larger…