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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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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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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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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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OpenAI reportedly launches ChatGPT ads at premium TV prices

OpenAI is reportedly charging around $60 per 1,000 impressions for ChatGPT ads, pricing that matches premium TV spots like NFL games rather than typical online advertising. The company is also billing ...
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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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Voxtral Transcribe 2 offers speech recognition at $0.003 per minute

The second-generation speech recognition models start at $0.003 per minute and, according to Mistral, outperform GPT-4o mini Transcribe, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Deepgram Nova in accuracy. The model ...
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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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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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Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip. Today it’s Alibaba’s turn with Qwen3.5, which tries to match top Western models using a hybrid architecture that combines linear attention and ...