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Qwen is the new Photoshop?
Plus, 🎉 How to Instantly Animate Characters with Higgsfield Motion Control (Kling 2.6), AI’s next frontier is moving beyond LLMs, and more!
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Hello there! Ready to dive into another upgrading, Mind-boggling, and Value-filled Shift?
Today we have:
🤳 Qwen Introduces Layer-Based Image Editing
🎉 How to Instantly Animate Characters with Higgsfield Motion Control (Kling 2.6)
👨💻AI’s Next Frontier Is Moving Beyond LLMs
🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss
🤳 Qwen Introduces Layer-Based Image Editing
Qwen has introduced Qwen-Image-Layered, a new image model designed to make image editing more structured and controllable. Instead of treating images as flat pixels, the model decomposes them into editable layers.
The Shift:
🔹 Layered Image Decomposition - The model breaks an image into multiple RGBA layers, each representing a distinct semantic or structural element, allowing edits to be applied to a single layer without affecting the rest of the image.
🔹 High-Fidelity Editing Operations - Layer-based editing enables clean object deletion without visual artifacts, resizing objects without distortion, and moving elements freely within the canvas while preserving surrounding context.
🔹 Flexible and Recursive Control 0 Qwen-Image-Layered supports a variable number of layers and allows individual layers to be further decomposed, making it possible to apply increasingly fine-grained edits as needed.
By turning images into structured, editable components, Qwen-Image-Layered reduces the guesswork common in generative image edits. It brings AI image generation closer to practical design workflows where precision and consistency are critical.
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🎉 How to Instantly Animate Characters with Higgsfield Motion Control (Kling 2.6)
Higgsfield just released Motion Control powered by Kling 2.6, and it’s wild. Upload a real dance clip and the system will transfer full-body motion, facial expression, and hand gestures onto any character you choose, no mocap suits, no trackers, no studio.
1. Pick your source clip: Choose any real video of someone dancing or moving, it can be a phone recording.
2. Upload to Motion Control: Head to Higgsfield’s editor and drop in your clip.
3. Select a target character: Choose any digital avatar, 3D model, game character, or animated persona you want to animate.
4. Let Kling 2.6 do the rest: Motion Control transfers the motion and expression data onto the character automatically. The result is a fully animated performance that mirrors the original clip.
Great for ad content, animated promos, virtual influencers, or branded shorts, without motion capture gear.
👨💻AI’s Next Frontier Is Moving Beyond LLMs
Two major AI figures are launching new labs that signal where advanced AI research is heading next. Yann LeCun confirmed his world-model startup AMI Labs, while Figure AI’s Brett Adcock unveiled a new $100M AI lab alongside his humanoid robotics push.
The Shift:
1️⃣ AMI Labs Bets on World Models Over Language-Only AI - Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs is building world-model AI designed to understand environments, simulate cause and effect, and predict outcomes, aiming to reduce hallucinations that stem from the non-deterministic nature of LLMs.
AMI Labs is reportedly raising €500M at a ~€3B valuation before launch. World models are also being explored by Google DeepMind and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, confirming this as a serious alternative research path.
3️⃣ Brett Adcock Launches Hark While Retaining Full Control - Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock launched a new AI lab called Hark using $100M of personal capital. He remains CEO of both Figure and Hark, keeping strategy, talent, and data tightly aligned.
Figure AI has raised over $1B and is valued at $39B, with a heavy focus on embodied robotics and real-world data collection. Hark appears positioned to extend that data advantage into broader AI systems beyond humanoids.
The AI race is shifting from bigger models to a deeper understanding of the physical world. World models and embodied intelligence suggest the next breakthroughs will come from systems that learn how reality behaves, not just how language sounds.
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🔨AI Tools for the Shift
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🚀Quick Shifts
✨ ChatGPT now has its own “Spotify Wrapped” a personalized year-in-review called Your Year with ChatGPT, rolling out to free, Plus, and Pro users in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
⚠️ FTC withdraws AI enforcement order, citing conflict with Trump’s AI Action Plan. The agency vacated a 2024 order against a company accused of selling AI-generated fake reviews, saying it failed legal standards and “unduly burdens innovation.”
🤖 UPS is cracking down on fake returns using AI that detects tiny differences humans miss, while a swarm of warehouse robots transports items efficiently. Fraud drops, accuracy rises, and return processing speeds up.
🤖 OpenAI warns that AI browsers like Atlas may always face prompt-injection risks, using a new RL-trained attacker to stress-test defenses, harden agent mode, and reduce real-world exploits through rapid security cycles.
⚡ Alphabet is buying Intersect Power for $4.75B to secure dedicated clean energy for AI data centers, bypassing strained utility grids as it builds next-gen renewable-powered industrial parks for future AI growth.
🧩 Prompt of the Day
How to Map a Customer’s Day in the Life to Find High-Impact Brand Touchpoints
Turn abstract customer journeys into a clear, hour-by-hour view of where your product naturally fits into someone’s real routine.
Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill the placeholders with your product or service name and the type of customer you want to understand more deeply.
Prompt to paste
Describe a day in the life of the ideal customer for [Insert product or service name]. Break the day into key moments from morning to night. For each moment, identify the customer’s goal, mindset, friction or need, and where the brand or product could naturally appear as a helpful touchpoint. Highlight which moments are best for awareness, consideration, or conversion. Keep it realistic, specific, and grounded in daily behavior rather than generic funnel stages.
That’s all for today’s edition see you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!
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