AI News Roundup: Qwen Image Edit 2511, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7

NitroGen: a pipeline for generating policy-aligned synthetic training data for embodied agents.
FlashPortrait + generative refocusing: two demos that push more controllable portrait edits and view changes.
Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511: an open image-edit model worth trying for instruction-based edits.
MiniMax M2.1 update: a quick recap of what changed and where to find the release notes.
GLM 4.7: highlights + the linked deeper dive/review.
A grab bag of newer research demos: Inf-Cam, StoryMem, ReCo, Spatia, MVInverse, DreamMontage, 3DReGen, CARI4D, and AniX.