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Google brings AI music generation to Gemini with Deepmind's Lyria 3

Google is integrating Lyria 3, an AI music generator developed by Google Deepmind, directly into the Gemini app, allowing users to create music from simple text prompts. The model generates 30-second ...
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Nvidia lands massive Meta deal and pushes into CPU market to fend off growing competition

Meta has signed a multi-year contract with Nvidia that covers millions of chips: in addition to Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, the independent Grace and Vera CPUs are also being used for the first time.
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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

World Labs, the AI startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised one billion dollars in a new funding round. Backers include Autodesk, Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD, according to a blog ...
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Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries

Anthropic and Indian IT giant Infosys are jointly developing AI agents for regulated industries. The partnership focuses on telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, and software development. The ...
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Context files for coding agents often don't help - and may even hurt performance

ETH Zurich researchers found that auto-generated context files like AGENTS.md don't help coding agents in most cases - they worsened performance in five out of eight test settings and drove up ...
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Anthropic still won't give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models

Anthropic is demanding safeguards to prevent its AI tools from being used for autonomous weapons control without human oversight or for surveillance of American citizens. The Pentagon insists it can ...
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Google and OpenAI complain about distillation attacks that clone their AI models on the cheap

Google and OpenAI are complaining about data theft—yes, you read that right. According to Google, Gemini was hit with a massive cloning attempt through distillation, with a single campaign firing over ...
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Read full article about: Journalist rents out his body to AI agents and earns nothing after two days of gig work WIRED reporter Reece Rogers rented out his body to AIs. He tested RentAHuman, a ...
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Qwen-Image-2.0 renders ancient Chinese calligraphy and PowerPoint slides with near-perfect text accuracy

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.0, a 7-billion-parameter model that handles both image generation and image processing in one package, at a fraction of the size of comparable models. One ...
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Half of xAI's co-founders have now left Elon Musk's AI startup

Jimmy Ba, co-founder of Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, has left the company. Ba was one of xAI's twelve founding members and previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, ...
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Bytedance shows impressive progress in AI video with Seedance 2.0

Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI video generation model that processes images, videos, audio, and text simultaneously to create short videos with automatic sound effects. The ...
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AI no longer hallucinates, apparently hallucinating himself

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claimed in a CNBC interview that generative AI is "no longer hallucinating" — a statement that is factually incorrect. Hallucinations remain a fundamental, structural problem ...