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Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design

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Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models in its Gemini Audio family. Google calls them its most expressive audio generation models yet. Flash TTS targets creative direction and character voices. Flash-Lite TTS targets high-volume, cost-efficient production. Both let developers direct delivery line by line using natural […]

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‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI

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A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shiftingGoogle has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a

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How the ‘poisonous tide’ of disinformation stokes division and sows despair

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Whether produced by Russia, China or far-right influencers, deepfakes and disinfo are being used to spread deceitful narrativesRussian disinformation campaigns are varied in their falsehoods and strategies.The narratives range from a deepfake Tom Cruise slamming the Paris Olympics to portraying a recent Russian attack on a train near the Ukraine-Poland border as a false-flag operation.

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Diarization: A 100M-Parameter Open-Weight Model That Tracks 8 Speakers in Real Time

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NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any conversation: who spoke when. The 100M-parameter model tracks up to 8 speakers, including when voices overlap. One checkpoint handles both offline recordings and real-time streaming. Is it deployable? Yes. The weights are released under the

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My (complicated) relationship with AI: often seductive, occasionally frustrating and always demanding vigilance | Setareh Seyedghorban

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As a multilingual academic, artificial intelligence has levelled the playing field. But I will continue to think, judge and develop ideas that are stubbornly mineI am walking between carriages in search of a cup of tea on a train travelling over 100 miles an hour from Liverpool to London when I see half the people

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Nokia Open-Sources AnyJev: A Training-Free Layer That Turns Any Open LLM Into a Calibrated Decision Model

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Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training. It targets a common production job: picking one answer from a fixed set instead of writing a sentence. Is it deployable? Yes, it installs from PyPI, ships under Apache-2.0, and has transformers

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Kyutai Releases Voice of Reason: A Speech-Native Model that Solves Spoken Math with Reinforcement Learning

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Kyutai has released Voice of Reason, 2 open-weight speech-to-speech models that solve math problems out loud. Both start from GLM-4-Voice-9B and add supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). There is no transcription step and no separate text LLM in the loop. On spoken GSM8K, accuracy climbs from 27.3% for the base model to 77.1%.

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OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna: 50% Cheaper API Pricing and Benchmarks

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OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 new models in its GPT-6 family. They sit below GPT-6 Astra, which launched earlier this month. OpenAI trained both with methods similar to Astra’s. The aim is to bring Astra’s advances to faster, more affordable models. Deployable today? Yes. Both models are live in the OpenAI

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New UK agency will tackle ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham says

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PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information DefenceSecurity chiefs will set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “stem the poisonous tide” from damaging British interests.The National

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SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone

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Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a

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