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SenseNova released a preview of its U1.5 Lite model, showing benchmark gains in image generation and editing, with native 4K output and improved Chinese/English text rendering, though acknowledged weaknesses remain.

Nous Research has opened free access to FLUX 3 Preview for all Nous Portal users, including free tier, and is running a short film contest with prizes.

JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) has been merged into OpenJDK master, marking a significant milestone for Project Valhalla's value types in Java.

NASA flight directors preview three spacewalks at the International Space Station in August.

Alibaba's Qwen team is releasing daily checkpoints of Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, showing broad improvements especially in web frontend, with plans for an open-weight official version.

Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter language model, is being released as open-weight by Alibaba, with a preview available on Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork.

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion parameter model, with an open-weight release planned soon. A preview version, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, is now available on Alibaba's Token Plan platform, Qoder, and QoderWork.

A preview of the Visualize plugin for Codex, demonstrated by building an interactive planet simulator.

Asus will sell a standalone version of its OLED Xbox Ally X20 handheld gaming PC, which features a clearer 7.4-inch OLED screen and improved ergonomics compared to rivals like the MSI Claw 8 EX and Legion Go 2.

Crash Course previews the five-episode miniseries 'Crash Course Futures of AI', exploring AI's development potential, societal impact, and how to prevent a rogue AI from taking over the world, underscoring the importance of beginning prediction and preparation now.

Marked QL is a tool that provides instant markdown previews in Finder.

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will be publicly launched this Thursday, with expanding global preview access.

WhimFiles is a native macOS file manager with real-time filtering, fuzzy folder search, dual-pane browsing, hover previews, and tab support, all in a 9 MB package.

In preview, uv tool install now writes a uv.lock lockfile for every tool during installation.

Google announces the Genkit Agents API (preview) for TypeScript and Go, an open-source framework that simplifies building full-stack conversational AI apps by handling message history, streaming, tool loops, and persistence.

JEP 539 introduces strictly-initialized fields in the JVM as a preview feature, requiring fields to be initialized before reading to avoid default values like 0 or null. This provides stronger integrity guarantees for JVM-based languages.

GitHub Copilot's code review feature now supports medium-depth reviews in public preview, allowing users to increase the effort level for more thorough analysis by a higher-reasoning model.

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite for image generation (GA) and Gemini Omni Flash API preview for multi-turn conversational video editing at $0.10/sec.

OpenAI announces limited preview of GPT‑5.6 series including Sol, Terra, and Luna models, with new pricing and caching features.

MD+HTML Reader allows users to review AI-generated Markdown and HTML in a focused workspace.