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Suno releases new AI music model v5

Suno has launched its latest music model, v5, for Pro and Premier subscribers. The company says v5 delivers more realistic vocals, improved sound quality, and greater creative control. Suno claims the ...
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Google expands AI-powered search mode to Europe

Google is expanding its AI-powered search mode to more than 35 new languages and over 40 additional countries and regions, including much of Europe. The global rollout is expected to finish within a ...
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Physicist David Deutsch argues that true general intelligence starts with having your own story

Physicist David Deutsch argues that you can't test for AGI the way you test a piece of software. Instead, what sets humans apart is that they have their own history, shaped by choosing what matters to ...
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Stable Diffusion v2 removes NSFW images and causes protests

With Stable Diffusion Version 2.0, Stability AI strives to be more legally compliant and future-proof. Two important changes have been made. First, Stability AI has removed NSFW images from training ...
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Deepmind says video models for visual tasks could become what LLMs are for text tasks

Google Deepmind researchers believe video models like Veo 3 can become as flexible and general-purpose for visual tasks as large language models are for text. Their vision is that, instead of needing ...
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ChatGPT's traffic dips in July, but is it just a summer lull in the AI frenzy?

After reaching its temporary peak in June, the number of visitors to ChatGPT dropped another 11.2 percent worldwide in July, according to web analytics platform SimiliarWeb. In the US, the drop was ...
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AI researcher Andrej Karpathy says he's "bearish on reinforcement learning" for LLM training

Andrej Karpathy, a former Tesla and OpenAI researcher, is part of a growing movement in the AI community calling for a new approach to building large language models (LLMs) and AI systems. On X, ...
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"The winner takes it all!" - The US-China AI race explained

In the race for AI supremacy, there are two possible winners and the EU. An overview and assessment of the status quo. The global race to develop the best AI systems is in full swing. For years, the ...
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Adobe Photoshop integrates Google's image AI "Nano Banana"

Adobe is bringing Google's new image AI, known as "Nano Banana" (officially Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), to Photoshop as an optional tool. The model is designed for editing existing images with a high ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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OpenAI's new multimodal "GPT-4 omni" combines text, vision, and audio in a single model

OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, its latest large multimodal model that sets new standards in performance and efficiency by combining text, image, and audio processing in a single neural network. The "o" ...
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"Project Sunshine" takes ChatGPT personalization to the next level

OpenAI is preparing a new personalization update for ChatGPT. This was confirmed in mid-November by X account Jush, who found corresponding options in his or her ChatGPT menu. Web developer Tibor ...