🤖 A Collaborative Approach to Image Generation?

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🎨A Collaborative Approach to Image Generation?

• 👀OpenAI’s Secretive AI-Powered Gadget Faces Delays

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

GOOGLE

🎨A Collaborative Approach to Image Generation?

Google Research developed “PASTA,” which gradually refines AI-generated images based on your visual feedback rather than requiring complex prompt engineering.

Key Details:

• “PASTA” is built around multi-turn collaboration. First, you provide an input: “A dragon flying over the majestic mountain!” Second, it generates five variations of your input by altering the colors, shapes, and textures. Third, you select the variation that best matches your artistic vision.

• This entire process repeats over multiple rounds, allowing “PASTA” to learn your preferences when it comes to the concept, composition, and color palette of AI-generated images.

• It was trained using 7,000 selected variations across 30,000 simulated rounds, leveraging Implicit Q-Learning (IQL), which identifies the types of variations that typically make people happier.

Why It’s Important:

• Imagine having the perfect image in your mind as you enter a prompt, click generate, and receive an AI-generated image that’s not quite right. You refine the prompt repeatedly, but still can’t capture what you envisioned.

• “PASTA” transforms image generation into a collaborative conversation, overcoming the limitations of embodying a person’s unique creative intent within just a single prompt.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

OPENAI

👀OpenAI’s Secretive AI-Powered Gadget Faces Delays

OpenAI reportedly faces design flaws and technical issues with their secretive new AI-powered gadget.

Key Details:

• OpenAI recently acquired “io” for $6.5 billion, gaining legendary Apple designer Jony Ive’s team of 55 designers, architects, and engineers to develop AI-powered devices aimed at fostering less socially disruptive experiences.

• OpenAI also recently applied for a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which mentions “smart jewelry” for “AI-assisted interaction and simulation.”

• Compute infrastructure is the main bottleneck that’s forcing delays, with OpenAI lacking the cloud computing capacity to rival competitors like Amazon’s “Alexa+” or Google’s “Gemini for Home.”

Why It’s Important:

• “iyO” just sued OpenAI, alleging they met with them to discuss their in-ear technology, even purchasing the iyO One: GenAI-enabled earbuds designed to be the world’s first audio computer.

• This lawsuit forced OpenAI to disclose certain details about the new secretive AI-powered gadget. We know it’s a “palm-sized object” that “relies solely on audio and visual cues” and “sits on a table.”

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🛒Mocku.co generates realistic product mockups.

🗣️VoiceCheap translates any video in any language.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Google DeepMind introduced “CodeMender,” an AI Agent optimized to automatically improve code security within critical software infrastructure.

ElevenLabs launched “Agent Workflows,” which enables anyone to design, deploy, and manage complex conversation flows with specialized AI Agents.

Adobe published “U.S. Holiday Shopping Season,” which forecasts AI-based traffic to U.S. retail sites to rise by 520% within the 10 days leading up to Thanksgiving.

IBM and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of enterprise-ready AI by infusing Claude into IBM’s software portfolio.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• MediView XR raised a $24M Series A to simplify surgical procedures with “x-ray vision.”

• MAI closed a $25M Seed Round to automate performance marketing for small businesses.

• Phaidra landed a $50M Series B for an AI-powered virtual plant operator that optimizes mission-critical facilities.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Figure AI (San Jose, CA): Middleware Engineering Intern, Winter 2026

• NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): CAD Engineer, Physical Design, Entry-Level

• Google DeepMind (New York, NY): Research Engineer, Audio Dialogue, Mid-Level

• Apple (San Diego, CA): GPU Performance Modeling Engineer, Senior-Level

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