⚡ Midjourney V7 speed boost ⚡
Cheaper credits, quicker renders

Midjourney just pushed a server-side optimisation that adds a default Fast Mode. In the official announcement the team says standard V7 jobs now cost ≈ 50 % fewer credits and Turbo jobs render ≈ 30 % faster. The community timing tests suggest around 40 s for Fast and 18 s for Turbo, but those figures are user-reported, not in the docs. The update also introduces --q 2 for the previous engine, an experimental --q 4 for extra coherence and slightly better hand anatomy. Omni-Reference jobs continue to cost 2× Fast.

🔍 Google AI Mode launches 🔍
New ways to interact with information

Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to a “small percentage” of U.S. users who opt into Search Labs. The dedicated tab combines Gemini 2.0 reasoning with Google’s real-time index, delivering chat-style answers, follow-up threads and rich product cards. Google has removed the Labs wait-list, but access remains opt-in and limited for now.

🧠 Qwen3 quantized models release 🧠
AI power with less GPU memory

Alibaba published AWQ and GGUF versions of Qwen3-14B and Qwen3-32B on Hugging Face, dramatically reducing VRAM requirements. Developers can load the models in Ollama, LM Studio and similar tools, and toggle reasoning styles with the /think / /no_think special token. The weights ship under Apache-2 and include chat and base checkpoints.

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📣 Meta's AI advertising revolution 📣

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Stratechery that the company wants advertisers to “connect a bank account” and let the platform generate the copy, images, video, targeting and optimisation automatically — an “infinite creative” approach that could up-end agencies while giving small businesses agency-grade output on tap. The idea is a roadmap rather than a shipped product, but it signals a drastic reshaping of the ad stack

🏠 Airbnb's AI customer service expansion 🏠

Airbnb is rolling out an AI-powered support bot across the U.S. After one month in production, CEO Brian Chesky says 50 % of American guests already interact with it and calls to human agents are down 15 %. The company plans nationwide coverage this month before exploring AI for trip-planning and booking, preferring to perfect service first.