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Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight text-to-speech model that marks the company’s first major move into audio generation. Following the release of its transcription and language models, Mistral is now providing the final ‘output layer’ of the audio stack, positioning itself as a direct competitor to proprietary voice APIs in the developer ecosystem. […]
Some doctors argue it allows them to better connect with patients, but advocates warn the AI technology risks the oppositeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen a patient walks into a GP’s office in Australia today, the doctor may begin with a question: “Do you give consent to use an AI
Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scaleIf you had been keeping tabs on the news about church attendance in Britain lately, you would be forgiven for thinking the country was in the midst of a Christian revival.Stories of swelling congregations, filled with young people returning to the
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AI images of people – such as women in military contexts – are making money and serving as propaganda, researchers sayOnline content creators are not just building fake images and videos of prominent public figures, they are also fabricating people and using them in military contexts, which can make them money and even serve as
Do we really need a McDonald’s CEO fronting ads or a Gianni Infantino Panini sticker? No. But in the age of Trump, the boss class feels emboldenedA few weeks ago, the CEO of McDonald’s appeared in a video sampling the chain’s new “Big Arch burger”. In the clip, Chris Kempczinski, or “Chris K” as he
Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for social mediaThe young woman at the heart of what has been called the tech industry’s “big tobacco” moment was on YouTube at six and Instagram by nine. More than a decade later, she says, she still can’t live without the social
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NVIDIA researchers introduced ProRL AGENT, a scalable infrastructure designed for reinforcement learning (RL) training of multi-turn LLM agents. By adopting a ‘Rollout-as-a-Service’ philosophy, the system decouples agentic rollout orchestration from the training loop. This architectural shift addresses the inherent resource conflicts between I/O-intensive environment interactions and GPU-intensive policy updates that currently bottleneck agent development. The
In this tutorial, we implement IWE: an open-source, Rust-powered personal knowledge management system that treats markdown notes as a navigable knowledge graph. Since IWE is a CLI/LSP tool designed for local editors. We build a realistic developer knowledge base from scratch, wire up wiki-links and markdown links into a directed graph, and then walk through
Updated prices of PlayStation 5 consoles to go into effect on 2 April as electronics makers face rising cost pressuresSony is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the US, marking its second hike in less than a year as the entertainment giant grapples with rising costs of key
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The US court verdicts declaring Meta liable for getting people addicted and ruining lives must be just the start of a global fightbackGood news is so rare these days, you don’t quite know how to take it. You want to celebrate, but a rival instinct tells you it’ll be pulled back somehow, the same feeling
