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Google AI Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: A New Benchmark in Expressive and Controllable AI Voice

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Google has introduced Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a preview text-to-speech model focused on improving speech quality, expressive control, and multilingual generation. Unlike previous iterations that prioritized simple conversion, this release emphasizes natural-language audio tags, native support for more than 70 languages, and native multi-speaker dialogue. This release signals a shift from ‘black-box’ audio generation toward […]

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Snap Inc blames AI as it lays off 1,000 workers

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Cuts by Snapchat’s parent company come in response to a declining stock price and pressure from an activist investorSnapchat’s parent company plans to lay off 16% of its employees, around 1,000 people, citing “rapid advancements in artificial intelligence”, the social media company told staff on Wednesday in an internal memo. The staff reduction is part

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ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

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Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughtsIf you’ve never seen Jim Carrey’s 2007 psychological thriller The Number 23, then congratulations. It is a film about a man who sees the number

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Game of Thrones and Euphoria given age ratings as BBFC deploys new AI tool

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Regulator says tool, which creates reports for humans to review, has helped classify entire UK catalogue of HBO MaxTV shows including Game of Thrones and Euphoria have received age ratings for the first time in the UK, after the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) deployed an AI tool to help assess content.The BBFC has

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The Foldable iPhone Revolution: What to Expect from Apple’s Game-Changing Device

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Apple has long been a trailblazer in the tech world, setting trends and raising the bar for innovation. Now, as rumors swirl about the company’s first foldable iPhone, excitement is building among fans and industry watchers alike. With reports suggesting a launch as early as 2026, the foldable iPhone could mark a new chapter for…

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‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: AI firm accused of sexist advert

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Narwhal Labs advert depicts woman next to strapline: ‘She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise’An AI company which recently secured millions of pounds of investment has been accused of running a misogynistic and sexist advertising campaign.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received at least seven complaints about the campaign by Narwhal Labs,

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI

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Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model

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MacBook Air M5 review: Apple’s best consumer laptop speeds up

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Chip upgrade brings pro-level power, long battery life and plenty of storage, but the Air now faces real competitionApple’s latest MacBook Air is its most powerful yet, comes with double the starting storage and is better than ever for getting work done and as the benchmark for a consumer laptop. But this year the new

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A Coding Implementation of Crawl4AI for Web Crawling, Markdown Generation, JavaScript Execution, and LLM-Based Structured Extraction

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In this tutorial, we build a complete and practical Crawl4AI workflow and explore how modern web crawling goes far beyond simply downloading page HTML. We set up the full environment, configure browser behavior, and work through essential capabilities such as basic crawling, markdown generation, structured CSS-based extraction, JavaScript execution, session handling, screenshots, link analysis, concurrent

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NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis

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Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenter in the Memphis areaA new lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company of illegally spewing toxic pollutants into the Black neighborhoods on the border of Tennessee and Mississippi.The suit, filed Tuesday in Mississippi federal court, alleges xAI is violating the Clean

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