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Choosing the right Python task queue
Article URL: https://judoscale.com/blog/choose-python-task-queue
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Ranked: Countries Investing the Most in R&D
Article URL: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rd-investment-by-country/
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Remi Bader Chose Herself
Article URL: https://www.self.com/story/remi-bader-surgery
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724301
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Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death May Get a Gloomier Update
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-blue-screen-of-death-replacement/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724286
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Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers
Article URL: https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724267
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Wall Street (Kinda) Is Main Street
Article URL: https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/main-street-wall-street-trump-tariffs-2/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724262
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Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Policies
Kling AI 2.0 Launches with Multimodal Video/Image Editing
Kling AI, a cutting-edge tool for generating imaginative images and videos using state-of-the-art generative AI techniques, held its “From Vision to Screen” Model 2.0 Launch Event in Beijing on April 15, announcing an upgrade to its foundational model and officially unveiling the KLING 2.0 Video Generation Model and KOLORS 2.0 Image Generation Model globally.
Redefining human-AI interaction
Since its launch last June, Kling AI has undergone more than 20 iterations. As of now, its global user scale has surpassed 22 million. Over 15,000 developers from around the world have integrated Kling’s Application Programming Interface (API) into a wide range of industry applications.
“Kling AI has consistently focused on improving the foundational capabilities of its models, enhancing image quality, and introducing innovative features to meet the diverse needs of its users,” Mr. Gai Kun, Senior Vice President of Kuaishou and Head of the Community Science Department, said at the event, adding that the tool aims to empower everyone to tell compelling stories with AI, enabling more precise and complex creative expression.
With the latest upgrade to its foundational models, the KLING 2.0 model continues to lead globally in areas such as dynamics, prompt adherence, and visual aesthetics, while the KOLORS 2.0 model has seen improvements in prompt adherence, cinematic visual quality, and representation of artistic styles.
Gai said that both models have ranked first in the industry based on the team’s internal multi-metric comparative evaluation.
According to the latest ranking of video generation models validated by the global AI benchmark organization Artificial Analysis on March 27, Kuaishou’s Kling 1.6 Pro (High-Quality Mode) claimed the top spot in the Image-to-Video category with a benchmark Arena ELO score over 1000, followed by Google’s Veo 2 and Pika Art, which ranked second and third, respectively.
Gai said that AI holds tremendous potential for supporting creative expression; however, the industry still fails to meet user demands. To truly realize the vision of “telling great stories with AI,” it is essential to comprehensively enhance foundational model capabilities and define a new language for human-AI interaction.
In this 2.0 model iteration, Kling AI officially introduces a new interactive concept for AI video generation: Multi-modal Visual Language (MVL). This concept enables users to efficiently convey complex, multi-dimensional creative ideas—such as identity, appearance, style, scenes, actions, expressions, and camera movements—directly to AI by integrating multi-modal information like image references and video clips.
Multi-modal features
Based on the new MVL concept, the brand-new Multi-Elements Editor and Image Editing features were unveiled by Mr. Zhang Di, Vice President of Kuaishou and Head of Kling AI, at the launch event.
For instance, based on the existing video, the Multi-Elements Editor allows users to swap, add, or delete elements from the video with text or image inputs, empowering creators with more creative freedom and flexibility in editing.
According to Zhang, image-to-video generation currently accounts for about 85 percent of Kling AI’s video creation, with image quality playing a crucial role in the video generation process. In the field of image generation models, Kuaishou’s Kolors2.0 also leads the industry.
He said that KOLORS 2.0’s text-to-image capabilities have undergone a comprehensive upgrade, including a significant improvement in prompt adherence, a substantial enhancement in cinematic aesthetic expression, and support for over 60 stylizations for image transformation. As a result, the model’s creativity and imagination in generating images have greatly improved.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724227
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American citizen detained under ICE hold in Florida
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/lopez-gomez-citizen-detained-ice-florida/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724173
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New daily weight-loss pill shows success at clinical trial
Minimalist static site generator pattern only for JavaScript developers
Article URL: https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/04-17-zero-dependencies
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724131
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DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice
Athena – An open source production-ready general AI agent
Article URL: https://github.com/Athena-AI-Lab/athena-core
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724119
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Artist Cruz uses water, light and chemistry to make photograph without a camera
Soldiers in combat can kill without moral injury
Article URL: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/soldiers-combat-can-kill-without-moral-injury
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724087
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The precision of a memory can be seen in the eyes
Article URL: https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/precision-memory-can-be-seen-eyes
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724084
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Light's out: 2D Rubik's Cube
Article URL: https://raymondtana.github.io/projects/pages/Lights_Out.html
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Why a Michigan community formed a human chain to move 9,100 books, one at a time
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/human-chain-bookstore-chelsea-michigan-1.7513139
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724030
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AI Child Porn Will Probably Save Real Children
Article URL: https://aella.substack.com/p/ai-child-porn-will-probably-save
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43724018
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/assistant-for-all
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723964
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