XPRIZE Wildfire winners spotted fires within 10 min—but couldn’t stop them
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Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models available now through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Flash TTS designs new voices from natural language prompts across 100+ languages. It ranks #1 on…
YouTube promises custom feeds and a lot more AI later this year
YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a…
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Diarization: A 100M-Parameter Open-Weight Model That Tracks 8 Speakers in Real Time
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…
Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers
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Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as…
ChatGPT Voice gets closer to "Her" with email, calendar, and Slack access
ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap into plugins like email, calendar, and Slack. Users can manage appointments, send emails, or build websites just by talking. The update moves OpenAI closer…
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
"So absurd and embarrassing ..."