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Meta AI Translation Tool Automatically Dubs and Lip-Syncs Your Reels
The tool only supports English and Spanish, but more languages will be added soon.
Authors Guild Urges Members to Register Titles in Anthropic Lawsuit
As the September 1 deadline nears to submit books for consideration in the class action lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, the Guild is advising its members to send their contact...
🎧 Best of the Pod: She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures—As a Side Hustle
How Claire Vo created ChatPRD while working a demanding job
Colorado’s AI regulations split lawmakers as they pitch reforms for special session: ‘It’s a mess’
While Democratic lawmakers in the majority are largely aligned on how to close the budget gap, there’s significantly less agreement on how to answer Gov. Jared Polis’ call to amend...
US tech stocks slide after Altman warns on AI future and MIT study casts doubt on the hype
Investors’ long-running enthusiasm for artificial intelligence showed signs of faltering on Tuesday as tech stocks tumbled.
Embodied-R1: Reinforced Embodied Reasoning for General Robotic Manipulation
Generalization in embodied AI is hindered by the “seeing-to-doing gap,” which stems from data scarcity and embodiment heterogeneity. To address this, we pioneer “pointing” as a unified,…
Zapier Agents: AI Teams That Work Together
Build AI agent teams that collaborate autonomously. New: agent-to-agent calling, Copilot-assisted building, Box & Google Drive knowledge sources. Transform workflows with AI orchestration.
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?
The importance of negative training data for robust antibody binding prediction
Nature Machine Intelligence – Thoughtfully designed negative training datasets may hold the key to more robust machine learning models. Ursu et al. reveal how negative training data composition…
Training data composition determines machine learning generalization and biological rule discovery
Nature Machine Intelligence – Negative data composition critically shapes machine learning robustness in sequence-based biological tasks. Training data composition and its implications are…
Local Detours On A Narrow Path: How might AI treaties fail in China?
Blogpost based on a red-teaming of a Control.AI’s treaty proposal to build AI safely, A Narrow Path
Epic’s Bold Move: Healthcare’s Star Trek Moment With Intelligent AI Agents
Epic is revolutionizing healthcare with AI agents that streamline care, support clinicians, and optimize operations, all powered by its massive Cosmos dataset. Mirroring Star Trek innovations, this bold move positions...
Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100 billion valuation
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to...
I just created 5 apps using GPT-5 and it’s so easy it feels like it should be illegal — here’s how to do it
If you can describe it, you can build it
Almost all GenAI pilots companies deploy are failing – so are they really worth the hype?
Does your AI model provide rapid revenue acceleration?
Research suggests doctors might quickly become dependent on AI
A study in Poland found that doctors appeared less likely to detect abnormalities during colonoscopies on their own after they’d grown used to help from an AI tool.
New $3B artificial intelligence facility coming to Harwood ND
An artificial intelligence data center builder is announcing a planned expansion of their footprint in North Dakota with what it calls a new ‘AI Factory’ near Harwood
LLMs generate ‘fluent nonsense’ when reasoning outside their training zone
Chain-of-Thought isn’t a plug-and-play solution. For developers, this research offers a blueprint for LLM testing and strategic fine-tuning.
DeepSeek V3.1 just dropped — and it might be the most powerful open AI yet
China’s DeepSeek has released a 685-billion parameter open-source AI model, DeepSeek V3.1, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic with breakthrough performance, hybrid reasoning, and zero-cost access on Hugging Face.
Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds
Qwen-Image-Edit caters to professionals who need control while remaining approachable for casual experimentation.
Every AI model is flunking medicine – and LMArena proposes a fix
The benchmarking outfit is partnering with BiomedArena, a leaderboard specific to medical research.
Applied Digital announces $3b AI campus in North Dakota
Applied Digital said its Polaris Forge 2 campus will initially consist of two facilities with the option to expand further.
Lenovo’s Lena AI chatbot could be turned into a secret hacker with just one question
What if hackers could turn your AI chatbot against you?
OpenAI Is Poised To Become The Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?
The AI startup is chasing a $500 billion valuation, with backers betting it can become the next Apple or Google. There are reasons for skepticism.
GPT‑6 could change how we use AI forever — here’s what we know
Sam Altman teases GPT‑6 memory features
Nvidia says it’s evaluating a ‘variety of products’ after report of new AI China chip
Nvidia last week struck a deal with the U.S. government to resume selling products in China, in exchange for giving it a 15% cut of the sales.
Zoom’s new AI agent might mean you never need a human receptionist ever again
Zoom adds its Virtual Agent to Zoom Phone
Databricks eyes over $100 billion valuation as investors back AI growth plans
Analytics firm Databricks said on Tuesday its valuation was set to jump 61% to more than $100 billion in a funding round less than a year after its last, underscoring...
Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out of work permanently, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
On closed-door AI safety research
(I’m currently participating in MATS 8.0, but this post is unrelated to my project.) …
Supercharge Edge AI With High‑Accuracy Reasoning Using NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 9B
A Blog post by NVIDIA on Hugging Face
Mark Zuckerberg Has No Problem With People Using His AI to Generate Fake Medical Information
A bombshell document shines new light on the kinds of medical misinformation Meta’s AI systems are allowed to regurgitate.
Winner-Take-All Has Taken Over Venture. The Top 1% of AI Start-Ups Are Now Valued at 3-10x ‘Normal’ Multiples
Winner-Take-All Has Taken Over Venture. The Top 1% of AI Start-Ups Are Valued at 3-10x ‘Normal’ Multiples Based on fresh Carta data from 3,001 primary rounds raised by US startups...
Hugging Face: 5 ways enterprises can slash AI costs without sacrificing performance
Ultimately, model makers and enterprises are focusing on the wrong issue: They should be computing smarter, not harder.
Generative AI does nothing for 95 percent of companies
: MIT NANDA study finds only 5 percent of organizations using AI tools in production at scale
The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails
The future will arrive with or without our guardrails. We must design AI’s structures now for a future of abundance rather than disruption.