NASA and IBM launch AI model to predicts solar and space weather events

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• ☀️ NASA's AI predicts solar storms - Space weather revolution.

• 🧠 GPT-6 coming? Altman drops major hints - Memory included.

• 🏛️ Claude sells to government for $1 - AI's political play.

• 🎨 Alibaba's 20B model edits photos perfectly.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

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🌞 NASA + IBM Unveil “Surya” that reads the Sun’s secrets

NASA and IBM just built an AI that stares straight at the Sun.
Its name? Surya. And it just changed how we predict solar storms.

For nine years, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory collected millions of solar images. Surya ate them all up — and learned to forecast solar flares with 16% better accuracy than today’s best methods.

🔭 How It Works

• 🛰️ Trained on 9 years of solar images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

• 🌪️ Tracks sunspots, solar winds & surface shifts invisible to the human eye

• 🌈 Reads multiple wavelengths at once for a full-spectrum view

• 🚀 Open-sourced on Hugging Face for researchers everywhere

🌍 Why It Matters

Solar storms aren’t just science fiction.
They can:

• 📡 Knock out GPS + satellites

• ⚡ Disrupt power grids + flights

• 💸 Cause billions in infrastructure damage

With space traffic exploding, Surya could be the early-warning system that keeps our tech — and astronauts — safe.

🚀 The Future

AI isn’t just helping us understand Earth anymore.
It’s helping us decode the Sun — and protect everything that depends on it.

Full Story here — NASA, IBM's 'HOT' New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun.

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🎨 Qwen cracks the code on image editing with powerful tool

AI has gotten scarily good at making pictures from scratch. But fixing them? That’s been the weak link—until now.

Alibaba’s Qwen team just unveiled Qwen-Image-Edit, a massive 20B parameter model that handles both pixel-perfect fixes and bold style swaps—without mangling the people or objects that should stay intact.

Here’s how it works:

• Two editing tracks → Rotate, swap, or restyle entire images or target just one section while leaving the rest untouched.

• Text-savvy editing → Modify Chinese or English text inside images while preserving the font, size, and formatting.

• Stackable edits → Layer multiple changes step by step, no need to start from zero.

• Benchmark beast → Outperforms Seedream, GPT Image, and FLUX on key editing benchmarks.🎯 What It Means for Players

🌍 Why It Matters
AI art has been great at creating 👩‍🎨, but clumsy at editing 🖌️.
Qwen-Image-Edit changes that — open-source, natural-language powered, and ready for fine-grained control.

💡 The Big Picture
With Qwen’s momentum (remember the viral “nano-banana”? 🍌), image editing might be the next frontier where AI becomes a daily creative tool.

Full story here — Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency

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Trending Today

• OpenAI is looking beyond GPT-5, as CEO Sam Altman teasing GPT-6 as a faster, more adaptable model designed to remember user preferences (Memory feature), routines, and tone, and allow fully personalized assistants.

• ElevenLabs has upgraded its Conversational Agent platform with Chat Mode, letting AI flip effortlessly between text and voice depending on user context. The system analyzes device type, environmental noise, and user behavior, hitting 85% accuracy in real-time mode selection during beta tests.

• Microsoft is testing a COPILOT function in Excel that lets users generate summaries, classify data, and create tables directly inside cells using simple prompts. The feature works with existing formulas and updates results automatically as data changes. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4.1-mini model, it keeps inputs private but doesn’t pull from the web or company files.

• Anthropic will make its Claude AI model available to US government agencies for just $1, aiming to secure federal contracts and strengthen ties with public institutions. The move comes shortly after Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini were all approved as official AI vendors for the government.

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