Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
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Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights

Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8 billion parameter text-to-speech model that uses residual vector...

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xAI updates Grok Imagine to 1.5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution
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xAI updates Grok Imagine to 1.5 with image-to-video generation at 720p resolution

xAI has released Grok Imagine Video 1.5, an image-to-video generation model that converts still images into cinematic...

The Decoder
Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
AI Agents

Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning

Stanford researchers released OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that enables personal AI agents to run entirely...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
Ethics & Regulation

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI leaders have signed a letter to lawmakers urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA...

Wired AI
Healthcare AI

Biodefense in the Intelligence Age

The article discusses an action plan for leveraging AI technology to enhance biological resilience and biodefense...

OpenAI Blog
Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
Startups & FundingGoogle

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable has signed an expanded multiyear deal with Google Cloud that includes a 5x expansion of its footprint on the...

TechCrunch Startups
Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”
AI Agents

Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”

MIT researchers developed a method to train AI agents to ask better questions by using the classic game Battleship as a...

MIT News AI
Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM
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Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model that processes text, images, and audio...

The Decoder
Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal
Startups & FundingGoogle

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Alphabet completed a record-breaking $85 billion stock sale, signaling strong investor confidence in AI-related...

TechCrunch AI
Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go
Ethics & RegulationGoogle

Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go

Google has introduced an opt-out toggle in Search Console allowing website operators to exclude their content from AI...

The Decoder
How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers
AI Agents

How to Build a Document Intelligence Backend with iii Using Workers, Functions, and Cron Triggers

The article describes building a document intelligence backend using iii by registering modular functions and reusing...

MarkTechPost
Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon
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Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Google has launched Dreambeans, an AI tool that transforms personal data from your Google account into AI-illustrated...

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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity
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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

xAI is seeking to force four anonymous plaintiffs suing over alleged Grok-generated deepfake nudes to reveal their...

Wired AI
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop
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Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop

Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 12B, an encoder-free multimodal model that natively processes vision and audio...

MarkTechPost
Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering
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Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering

Ideogram has released version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model featuring native 2K resolution,...

The Decoder
The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain
AI Agents

The Humanoid Robot of the Future Is a 6-Foot-Tall Beefcake With a Chinese Body and an American Brain

Nvidia's robotics lead Spencer Huang discusses a new humanoid robot that combines Chinese hardware with American...

Wired AI
Trump's new executive order wants AI companies to voluntarily submit models for government safety reviews
Ethics & Regulation

Trump's new executive order wants AI companies to voluntarily submit models for government safety reviews

The White House issued an executive order requiring government agencies to strengthen cyber defenses with AI tools and...

The Decoder
As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
AI AgentsGoogle

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

Google's new Gemini AI agent Spark demonstrates impressive capabilities by accessing personal information without...

The Verge AI
Trump’s EO Furthers Model Exclusivity, Harming Cyber Defenders
Ethics & Regulation

Trump’s EO Furthers Model Exclusivity, Harming Cyber Defenders

A Trump Executive Order aims to strengthen relationships between AI model providers and the federal government, but...

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