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Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a music generation model, a month after Lyria 3’s release.

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Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction

The explosion of new data center projects in the U.S. has led to a growing backlash against the infrastructure that powers AI. Two influential politicians are now proposing a ban on any new data centers with peak power loads in excess of 20 megawatts. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep.

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Roundtables: The Next Era of Space Exploration

Available only for MIT Alumni and subscribers. Listen to the session or watch below Whether it's the race to find life on Mars, the campaign to outsmart killer asteroids, or the quest to make the moon a permanent home to astronauts, scientists' efforts in space can tell us more about where humanity

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Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without getting fleeced.

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OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage

Last month, researchers at Northeastern University invited a bunch of OpenClaw agents to join their lab. The result? Complete chaos.The viral AI assistant has been widely heralded as a transformative technology—as well as a potential security risk.

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There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

five days, an Instagram account called FruitvilleGossip has racked up more than 300,000 views on a series of videos called Fruit Paternity Court.Featuring a cast of AI fruit characters, the entirely AI-generated show pits a clementine mother of a baby tangerine against his prospective parent, Mr.

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Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child

At a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, First Lady Melania Trump showed up with a humanoid robot developed by robotics firm Figure AI.

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Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human

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Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what the internet thinks. The joke is a reference to the fictional startup Pied Piper that was the focus

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The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet.

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Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of that work carried out by an India-based workforce of experts. The all-equity Series A round was led by A

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The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is what’s happening right now

Okay, so the U.S. and China are locked in an all-out race to build the most powerful AI on the planet. Beijing is throwing billions at homegrown models, tightening its grip on the tech sector, and watching nervously as its best AI talent gravitates to U.S. companies.

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RPA matters, but AI changes how automation works

RPA (robotic process automation) is a practical and proven way to reduce manual work in business processes without AI systems. By using software bots to follow fixed rules, companies can automate repetitive tasks like data entry and invoice processing, and to a certain extent, report generation.

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Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.

I live in a dense city with plentiful public transportation options and limited parking, so I don’t own a car.

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The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app

The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands.

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‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young

quit the porn business in 2019, but for $30 a month you can now generate any X-rated scenario of her on your computer.Ann, 53, was an adult performer for three decades starting in the mid 1990s and retired because she had reached her savings goal.But last year she had a change of heart.

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Mistral releases a new open source model for speech generation

French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support.

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Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually use.In a joint letter sent to the Energy Information Administration Thursday morning, seen by WIRED, Hawley and Warren press the

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A ‘pound of flesh’ from data centers: One senator’s answer to AI job losses

The signs that AI could lead to mass job displacement are already piling up: Entry-level job postings in the U.S.

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The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery industry.