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In this issue:
🤝In Partnership: Build better docs faster
🤿Deep Dive: Nano Banana 2 brings advanced image generation
📕Learn Something: Upscale blurry images
🤝Powered by: Art as an alternative asset
🤿Deep Dive: Burger King puts AI chatbot in employee headsets
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MINTLIFY
Ship Docs Your Team Is Actually Proud Of
Mintlify helps you create fast, beautiful docs that developers actually enjoy using. Write in markdown, sync with your repo, and deploy in minutes. Built-in components handle search, navigation, API references, and interactive examples out of the box, so you can focus on clear content instead of custom infrastructure.
Automatic versioning, analytics, and AI powered search make it easy to scale as your product grows. Your docs stay accurate automatically with AI-powered workflows with every pull request.
Whether you're a dev, technical writer, part of devrel, and beyond, Mintlify fits into the way you already work and helps your documentation keep pace with your product.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Google's Nano Banana 2 Brings Pro-Level Image Quality at Flash Speed
Intelligence: Google has released Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), its latest image generation model that delivers the advanced world knowledge and quality of Nano Banana Pro at lightning-fast speed. The model is rolling out today across Google products including the Gemini app, Search, AI Studio, API, Google Cloud, Flow, and Google Ads.
Nano Banana 2 features subject consistency for up to five characters and 14 objects in a single workflow, plus production-ready specs with aspect ratios and resolutions from 512px to 4K.
The model pulls from Gemini's real-world knowledge base and is powered by real-time information and images from web search to accurately render specific subjects, create infographics, and generate data visualizations.
Precision text rendering and translation allows users to generate accurate, legible text and translate content within images for global sharing.
Google's SynthID verification feature has been used over 20 million times since November, helping people identify Google AI-generated images, video, and audio.
In the Gemini app, Nano Banana 2 replaces Nano Banana Pro across Fast, Thinking, and Pro models, with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers keeping access to Nano Banana Pro for specialized tasks.
📕 LEARN SOMETHING
Upscale Blurry Images Using Klein 9B (No Photoshop Needed)
Got low-res screenshots, old photos, or compressed JPEGs? Klein 9B is a new 9-billion parameter AI model that upscales and removes compression artifacts with a single prompt.
Trending on r/StableDiffusion — people are testing it with minimal prompts and getting solid results out of the box.
Steps:
1️⃣ Install ComfyUI if you haven't: github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
2️⃣ Download the Klein 9B model from HuggingFace and place it in your models folder
3️⃣ Load your low-res or compressed image into a simple img2img workflow
4️⃣ Set your prompt to: "upscale image and remove jpeg compression artifacts"
5️⃣ Hit generate — compare before/after. No LoRAs or complex configs needed for basic.
🤝POWERED BY MASTERWORKS
Wall Street Just Named the Most Crowded Trades of 2026
AI stocks. Metals. Crypto.
Surprise, surprise; gold crashed 16%. Silver plunged 34%. Bitcoin dropped to 1 year lows.
All supposedly "uncorrelated" assets moving in lockstep largely because of overleveraged margin.
JPM strategists warn that the same leverage is still a risk.
Those markets may be recovering now, but cascading liquidations could trigger quickly across several asset classes simultaneously.
So much for diversifying away risk, right?
But get this–
70,819 everyday investors have allocated $1.3 billion fractionally across 500+ exclusive investments.
Not real estate or PE… Blue-chip art. Sounds crazy, right?
Now it’s easy to invest in art featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso, thanks to Masterworks.
They do the heavy lifting from acquisition to sale, so you can diversify with the strategy typically limited to the ultra-wealthy.
(Past sales delivered net returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8% on works held longer than a year.)*
*Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Burger King's Patty AI Will Monitor Employee Friendliness
Intelligence: : Burger King is launching an AI chatbot called "Patty" that will live in employee headsets, assisting with meal preparation and evaluating customer interactions for "friendliness." The OpenAI-powered assistant is part of the BK Assistant platform, piloting in 500 restaurants with plans to launch across all US locations by end of 2026.
The system was trained to recognize words and phrases like "welcome to Burger King," "please," and "thank you" based on franchisee and guest input on measuring friendliness.
Patty can answer employee questions like how many bacon strips for a Maple Bourbon BBQ Whopper or provide instructions for cleaning the shake machine.
The platform integrates with Burger King's cloud point-of-sale system to alert managers within 15 minutes when machines are down or items are out of stock, automatically updating digital menu boards.
While building Patty for employees, Burger King is still testing AI drive-thru technology in fewer than 100 restaurants, with Chief Digital Officer Thibault Roux calling it "still a risky bet".
The company is "iterating" on capturing the tone of conversations and using the AI assistant as a coaching tool for managers to track location performance on friendliness.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
🗣️ ChatPal - Boost your language fluency through conversational AI practice.
🔒 Koidex - Ensuring safe installations and real-time background scanning.
🤖 Rover by rtrvr.ai - AI aid converting site visitors into customers.
🔊 Gpt-realtime-1.5 by OpenAI - Superior voice workflows, multilingual accur
👨💻 Tessl - Streamline AI development, focus on building, not debugging.
🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
Image by Sharp_Alternative845
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