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Companies prioritize AI training over job cuts, WEF study finds
A new World Economic Forum study reveals an interesting tension: while many companies see AI replacing some jobs, they're betting bigger on retraining than layoffs. The WEF's "Future of Jobs Report ...
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Ndea's deep learning-guided program synthesis aims to create AI that learns like humans
After leaving Google, the developer of the Keras AI framework and creator of the ARC benchmark is embarking on a new path to artificial general intelligence with Ndea. Ndea is taking an unconventional ...
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AI avatar video platform Synthesia raises $180 million
Synthesia, a company that helps businesses create AI-generated videos and avatars, just secured $180 million in Series D funding. Since its founding in 2017, the platform has grown to serve more than ...
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MiniMax introduces AI models with record context length for agents with 'long term memory'
MiniMax, a Chinese AI startup, has released its MiniMax-01 family of open-source models. The company says its MiniMax-Text-01 can handle contexts up to 4 million tokens - double the capacity of its ...
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OpenAI takes another shot at building robots
The company is looking to build a new team from scratch and is advertising for three key roles: an electronic sensing engineer to work on robot sensors, a robotics mechanics engineer to work on the ...
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Amazon's LLM-powered Alexa faces generative AI's common reliability challenges
Amazon's effort to transform Alexa from a basic voice assistant into an AI-powered personal concierge isn't going as smoothly as planned. The company is finding it challenging to make AI models ...
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Microsoft introduces pay-per-message pricing for AI agents and a free Copilot chat tier
Microsoft is launching Copilot Chat, a free version of its AI assistant, alongside a new pay-as-you-go system for AI agents. At its core, Copilot Chat is Microsoft's way of offering businesses a free ...
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Teens using ChatGPT for schoolwork has doubled since last year, Pew study finds
A recent Pew study shows that American teens are increasingly turning to ChatGPT for their schoolwork, though students' comfort level with the AI tool varies greatly depending on how it's used. The ...
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AI agents team up in Agent Laboratory to speed scientific research
Johns Hopkins University and AMD have developed Agent Laboratory, a new open-source framework that pairs human creativity with AI-powered workflows. Unlike other AI tools that try to come up with ...
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Apple pauses AI-generated news summaries after serious accuracy issues surface
Apple has hit pause on its Apple Intelligence notification summaries for news apps after users reported accuracy issues. The problem came to light when the BBC flagged a serious error: the feature had ...
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Kokoro's open-source TTS model rivals the best with a lean 82 million parameters
A new open source voice model called Kokoro just landed on HuggingFace, and early tests show it can generate voices that rival commercial services like Eleven Labs. The model packs 82 million ...
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Meta's LibGen controversy reveals how desperate AI companies are for quality training data
Court documents unsealed in California this week reveal that Meta intentionally used torrent networks to download copyrighted books for AI training, despite clear warnings from its own AI team.