What is Nano Banana 2.1 | Features, Pricing, Differences from Previous Generations, and How to Use

Nano Banana 2.1 is an image generation and conversational editing model available via the Gemini API, with the model ID ...

SD Times News Roundup: Oct. 9, 2026 — OpenAI adds speed capabilities; Functionalize’s new MCP server; Lower SMB pricing for Java SE Universal Subscription

This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

Learning from GitHub's 800,000 Lines of AI-Generated Code: 7 Rules and Review Prompts for Large-Scale Refactoring with AI Agents

When you hear that "AI wrote 800,000 lines of code," you might think that the era where code can be rewritten with the push ...
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Deploy a Secure Cloudflare Workers API in 12 Steps [2026]

Learn how to build, secure, and deploy a Cloudflare Workers API in 12 steps, with Wrangler, KV, Durable Objects, rate ...

The creator of Claude Code's prompting advice? Talk to your AI like a coworker

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny said that there's "no secret" to prompting AI, but he shared three strategies he uses.

Google’s AI-powered Playground can turn your game idea into something playable with simple prompts

Google is making game creation more approachable with Playground, a browser-based platform that builds playable games from ...

No Coding Needed: Google’s New AI Tool Builds Games From Your Ideas

Google launches Playground, an AI game-building platform that turns text prompts into playable games without coding. Here's ...
MarkTechPost

OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers

OpenAI’s Decisions API enters public beta, returning typed answers about 10x faster at $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
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AI Infrastructure

Reflection AI has introduced Beam, its first open-weight model. It is a 501B sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 23B active ...