Today · Friday, August 28

Today's brief

Not AI slop. Everything is carefully curated. There's always a human in the middle.

Lead story · Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with expanded generative video controls

The update adds scene extension, start/end frame control, and 4K upscaling for developers building with the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.

Also today2

01
01Google DeepMind· Today
Google DeepMind pilots first double-blind AI evaluations with cryptographic safeguards
Google DeepMind launched the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier AI model using cryptographically secure environments.
Aug 28, 2026Google DeepMind — Blog3 min read
Trust79
HypeLow hype
02
02Hugging Face blog· Today
Hugging Face Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds MultiVectorEncoder for ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a MultiVectorEncoder model type for ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval.
Aug 28, 2026Hugging Face3 min read
Trust84
HypeLow hype