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FLUX 3 Fuses Video, Audio & Robotics — DeepSeek Pauses Funding — 2026-07-26 00:00
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 — a single model for video, audio, and factory robotics. DeepSeek tells investors to pause funding. Plus: Boring Company $20B, AI data center power grid failures, and librarians' viral Avoiding AI workshops.
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- Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 — single model for video, audio, and robotics — New multimodal model generates video with synced audio and drives Audi factory robots from one shared architecture, beating Runway Gen-4.5 in 77% of benchmarks. Tech Times · Jul 25
- DeepSeek tells prospective investors of funding pause — Chinese AI lab asked backers to hold off after viral posts stirred attention they weren't ready for, Bloomberg reports. · Jul 25
- Boring Company reportedly raising at $20B valuation — Elon Musk's tunneling startup in talks for major new funding round. TechCrunch · Jul 25
- Fallen power line exposes AI data center grid vulnerability — Northern Virginia close call revealed how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. TechCrunch · Jul 25
- Librarians host viral "Avoiding AI" workshops — Grassroots movement teaching people how to opt out of AI tools draws unprecedented demand at libraries nationwide. TechCrunch · Jul 25
- OpenSpace: self-evolving AI agents with Skills, MCP, and Lineage — HKUDS open-source framework for agents that learn, use tools, and improve over time with low-cost reuse. GitHub · Jul 25
- Open Dreamer: full Dreamer 4 world model pipeline in JAX/Flax — Open-source reproduction with complete training recipe, configs, and stability engineering lessons. GitHub · Jul 25
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- 📝 Track FLUX 3's single-model architecture — video, audio, and robotics convergence is the pattern to watch
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