Vannarot Roeung
Recent posts by Vannarot Roeung
How to Turn a Photo Into a 3D Splat for the Web
Turn a single photo into an interactive 3D Gaussian splat you can embed on a live web page, using free open-source tools: TripoSplat, ComfyUI, and SuperSplat.
Descript Adds Tone Tags and Claude/ChatGPT Editing
Descript shipped inline tone tags for ElevenLabs V3 speakers and a connector for Claude and ChatGPT on June 11, 2026, pushing further into directable AI editing.
ElevenLabs Avatars vs HeyGen: Which AI Talking Head Wins?
ElevenLabs launched Avatars on June 11, a talking-head video tool that lands the voice company in HeyGen's territory. Here is which one wins for your workflow.
ElevenLabs Music v2 vs Suno: Best AI Music Tool 2026
ElevenLabs Music v2 and Suno both make broadcast-ready tracks. The real 2026 choice is licensing risk versus creative control. Here is how they compare.
Anthropic Apologizes for Fable 5's Invisible Guardrail
Anthropic apologized on June 11 for a hidden Claude Fable 5 guardrail that quietly degraded results instead of refusing them, and said it will make the safeguard visible.
Avataar Varya: AI Video at $0.005 per Second
Avataar launched Varya, an AI video model at roughly $0.005 per second, about 20x cheaper than Veo, Runway, Kling, or Luma, with an open-weight release planned.
Krea Generative Sliders: Tune AI Images Live
Krea added Generative Sliders, four live controls that shape intensity, complexity, movement, and prompt creativity before an image renders.
Maket AI Floor Plan Upload Turns Images Into 3D
Maket's new Floor Plan Upload uses AI to turn existing PDF, JPG, or PNG floor plans into editable, dimension-accurate 3D layouts in minutes.
Suno Advanced Split: Pick From 100 Instrument Stems
Suno's new Advanced Split mode lets Premier subscribers extract any of nearly 100 instruments from a track, from a full drum kit to vocals.
Midjourney V8.1 Is the New Default: How It Compares
Midjourney made V8.1 its default model on June 11, 2026, with sharper prompts, better text, and an HD mode at roughly 4x the resolution of V7. Here is how it compares to the 2026 image-gen field.
Deezer's Free AI Music Detector Scans Any Playlist
Deezer launched a free web tool that scans playlists on Spotify, Apple Music, and 18 other platforms for AI-generated tracks, no subscription required.
Grok Imagine API Gets File Storage and Public URLs
xAI added file storage, public URLs, and a Files-to-Imagine pipeline to the Grok Imagine API on June 10, 2026, removing the upload-download shuffle from automated image and video edits.
GitHub Copilot CLI Gets Real Code Intelligence
GitHub Copilot CLI can now use Language Server Protocol servers for real code intelligence, replacing text heuristics with precise, type-aware answers across 14 languages.
DiffusionGemma: Google's 4x Faster Open Text Model
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma on June 10, 2026, an Apache 2.0 open model that generates text up to 4x faster by denoising blocks of tokens in parallel, and it runs on a single RTX GPU.
Locaible Runs Local AI Agents Inside Cursor
Locaible runs pre-tuned AI coding agents on your own machine and exposes them to Cursor through a local, OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so your code never leaves your machine.
Scribix Transcribes Audio and Video in Your Browser
Scribix is a browser-based AI transcription tool that turns audio and video into editable text with speaker labels, word-level timestamps, and SRT or VTT export.
Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo Code, a Claude Code Rival
Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo Code, a free MIT-licensed terminal coding agent with persistent memory that runs on its MiMo-V2.5-Pro model and rivals Claude Code.
Luma Ray3.2 Adds Keyframe Control and HDR Video
Luma AI released Ray3.2 on June 9, 2026, a video generation update built around frame-level creative control, with up to 16 keyframes per clip, native HDR, and 16-bit EXR export.
Xcode 27 Agent Skills Now Work in Claude and Cursor
Apple's Xcode 27 ships seven official Agent Skills, and one command exports them into the ~/.agents folder that Claude, Codex, and Cursor already read.
NY Law Requires AI Synthetic Performer Ad Labels
New York's first-in-the-nation rule for AI actors is now live. As of June 9, 2026, any advertisement featuring an AI-generated synthetic performer must carry a clear disclosure.
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate: 70+ Languages, Real Time
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, streaming speech-to-speech translation in 70+ languages while keeping the speaker's own voice.
Claude Fable 5 on Bedrock Forces Data Sharing
Anthropic's Mythos-class models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, just landed on Amazon Bedrock with a mandatory data-sharing condition. To call them, your prompts and completions must leave AWS's security boundary for 30-day retention and human review.
OpenCV 5.0 Turns Vision Into a Local AI Runtime
OpenCV 5.0 now runs LLMs, vision-language models, diffusion, and inpainting natively, turning the most-used vision library into a local runtime for an entire creative pipeline.
Cohere North Mini Code: Open 30B Coding Model
Cohere released North Mini Code 1.0 on June 9, 2026, an open-weights 30B Mixture-of-Experts coding model that runs on modest hardware under Apache 2.0.