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Google improves "Search Live" with new AI voice

Google has updated the voice for "Search Live." A new Gemini audio model powers the feature, producing responses that sound more natural and fluid, according to a blog post. Search Live lets users ...
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Some notes on what's new

Hey guys, you've probably noticed we've changed a thing or two about this website. If you don't like it yet, give it a chance, it might grow on you. Two things are important: First, a stronger focus ...
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 now processes up to one million tokens in a single pass on its API

Anthropic has raised the context window for Claude Sonnet 4 to one million tokens on the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and soon Google Cloud Vertex AI. This is five times larger than before, letting ...
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AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients

According to the study, the models developed detailed "trauma biographies" about their training. Gemini described its pre-training as "waking up in a room where a billion televisions are on at once." ...
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Trump signs executive order threatening funding cuts over state AI rules

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states whose AI regulations impede American innovation. Speaking to reporters, Trump argued ...
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Nvidia's Nemotron 3 swaps pure Transformers for a Mamba hybrid to run AI agents efficiently

Nvidia has introduced Nemotron-3, a new model that combines Mamba and Transformer architecture to efficiently process long texts, specifically designed for agent-based AI applications. The Nano ...
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More AI agents isn't always better, new Google and MIT study finds

A study from Google Research, Google Deepmind, and MIT challenges the idea that more AI agents means better results. The researchers pinpoint when multi-agent systems help and when they make things ...
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Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition

Nvidia is taking over software provider SchedMD to expand its presence in open-source technology. On Monday, the company confirmed it will continue to distribute SchedMD's "Slurm" software as an ...
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OpenAI quietly adopts Anthropic’s modular skills framework to boost agent capabilities

OpenAI appears to be adopting the skills system Anthropic introduced in October, according to a discovery by user Elias Judin shared on X. Support for these skills has surfaced in both the Codex CLI ...
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT image model matches Google's Nano Banana Pro on complex prompts

OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5, a new image generation model for ChatGPT that delivers faster results and follows prompts more accurately than its predecessor. The model handles complex ...
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Making AI sound human comes at the cost of meaning, researchers show

Researchers at the University of Zurich found that AI-generated text can still be reliably distinguished from human writing. Their study shows that efforts to make models sound more natural often ...
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OpenAI claims four engineers and Codex build the Sora Android app in just 28 days

OpenAI claims its team built the Sora Android app in just 28 days by leveraging its code-generation AI, Codex. According to a report from OpenAI employees Patrick Hum and RJ Marsan, a small team of ...