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Voice agent teams keep hitting the same wall. The catalog holds 400 voices and the brief asks for the one that is not in it: a Quebecoise receptionist for a Montreal dealership, a narrator in his sixties with lecture hall authority. Briefs outnumber any catalog, and cloning closes the gap one speaker at a time, […]
White House warns trading partners against ‘imposing digital services taxes, fines, and other forms of extortion’ on US tech sectorFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe Trump administration will confront Australia over its plan to force digital platforms to take down harmful content
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The new model will serve as the first big test for John Ternus, who took the role last weekAll eyes are on Apple’s annual fall announcement of new products this afternoon, where the company is expected to unveil the most significant change to the iPhone since the smartphone’s introduction in 2007.Unlike previous iterations, the new
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Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank saysDatacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while consuming vast amounts of energy, according to new research.Environmental thinktank Verdant predicts that all the datacentres currently planned are likely to directly employ 10,400
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Today, Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that takes actions rather than just answering questions. Muse can send emails, book travel, negotiate bills, and pursue long term goals. It keeps working after you close the app and returns only when it needs approval. The bigger story for AI devs is architectural. Each user
Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hoursOpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the artificial intelligence-led endeavour.The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven
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NVIDIA has announced CUDA Rust, a push to make Rust a first-class language for writing GPU kernels. Rust code could already launch CUDA kernels, but the kernel body usually had to be written elsewhere. CUDA Rust closes that gap with two NVlabs open-source projects: cuda-oxide for the SIMT model and cutile-rs for the newer Tile
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a catalogue of precomputed predictions for the molecular effects of every possible single-nucleotide variant in the human genome. That is roughly 9 billion single-letter changes. The release also introduces the AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score, a single number that ranks variants by predicted impact, plus per-variant feature attributions and
Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthroughApple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK after talks failed to produce a breakthrough, the government has said.The legislation commitment puts ministers on a collision course with two of the biggest players in
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Luca Guadagnino-directed film will be released by Neon after being dropped by Amazon amid OpenAI partnershipBig tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?The first teaser trailer of Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial has been released.After being dropped by Amazon MGM Studios in June, the biopic of OpenAI tech executive Sam Altman will
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