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Google expands access to Veo 3, its viral new video model, through the Gemini app
About 100 hours after its initial launch, Google is opening up its AI video model Veo 3 to users in 71 additional countries. The news came from Josh Woodward, Vice President of Gemini at Google, who ...
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One year after its rivals, Claude can finally speak with users through a new voice mode
Anthropic is adding a voice mode to its Claude mobile apps, letting users have spoken conversations with its AI for the first time—though only in English to start. Anthropic is adding voice mode to ...
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Meta is splitting its AI department into AI Products and AGI Foundations to speed up development
Meta is splitting its AI department into two groups: "AI Products" led by Connor Hayes, focused on the Meta AI Assistant and features inside Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and "AGI Foundations" ...
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Google releases open-source LMEval to benchmark language and multimodal models
Google has released LMEval, an open-source framework designed to make it easier to compare large AI models from different companies. According to Google, LMEval lets researchers and developers ...
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Opera unveils Neon, a browser designed for both humans and AI agents
The new browser isn't just AI-assisted; it's AI-directed. Neon's built-in agents can collect information, complete tasks, and even generate content, often with little or no user involvement. The ...
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Demis Hassabis urges people to keep studying coding and science despite rapid AI development
Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis told the New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast that coding and science are still worth learning, even as AI becomes more powerful. He said people who understand basics like ...
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Chatbots like ChatGPT have not led to significant changes in wages or working hours, study finds
A new study suggests that despite the rapid rise and widespread adoption of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, their impact on wages and working hours has been minimal so far. The findings challenge ...
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Mistral's Agents API enables AI agents to collaborate and connect with external systems
Mistral AI has unveiled its new Agents API, a framework meant to turn language models into hands-on problem solvers for businesses. The Agents API lets AI agents handle tasks on their own, work ...
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Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabi says world models are making progress toward AGI
Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis says world models—AI systems that simulate the structure of the real world—are already making surprising progress toward general intelligence. Hassabis pointed to ...
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Spaitial pushes generative AI to understand and create 3D structures with real physical properties
Spaitial, an AI company with offices in Munich and London, is developing technology that can generate and understand complex 3D worlds.At the center of their approach are Spatial Foundation Models ...
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Nick Clegg says a mandatory AI training opt-in would kill the UK's AI industry
Former Meta executive Nick Clegg is warning that a legal requirement for tech companies to secure permission before using copyrighted content to train AI models would devastate the UK's AI sector.
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Gmail Personal Smart Replies: The first time an AI feature has worried me
I love AI if it's used appropriately, but when Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared a Personal Smart Replies example, it felt like a bad approach. After a friend emailed to ask for advice on a trip Sundar ...