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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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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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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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Anthropic raises $30 billion, pushing valuation to $380 billion

Anthropic has closed a $30 billion Series G funding round, bringing the AI company's post-money valuation to $380 billion. The round was led by GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, and U.S.
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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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AI in practice

Manus launches its AI agent on Telegram, letting users run complex tasks directly in chat. Telegram is the first supported platform, with more on the way. Users connect via QR code, and it's available ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...