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With Google’s Gemini, Create Podcast-Style Discussions From Your Docs

Google boosts Gemini with Canvas and Audio Overview, offering real-time editing and podcast-style audio insights to power creative projects.

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Meta has revenue sharing agreements with Llama AI model hosts, filing reveals

In a blog post last July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “selling access” to Meta’s openly available Llama AI models “isn’t [Meta’s] business model.” Yet Meta does make at least some money from Llama through revenue-sharing agreements, according to … Continue reading

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How BYD plans to make EV charging as fast as filling a gas tank

What we found mostly supports the auto makers claims, with a few caveats.

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Valve removes video game demo suspected of being malware

Valve removed a video game called Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution from Steam after users reported that its free demo contained malware.

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Crypto super PACs pump cash into Florida as GOP faces risk of thinning House majority

The crypto industry is pouring money into two Florida House races that could have a big impact on the Republican Party’s ability to hold its slim majority.

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SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with $6.5B Acquisition of Chip Startup Ampere

Ampere designs high-performance processors tailored for cloud computing, AI workloads, and data centers.

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Elon Musk tells Tesla employees ‘hang onto your stock,’ urges vandals to ‘stop being psycho’

In an all-hands livestreamed meeting on Thursday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on some of protests and instances of vandalism the company has faced.

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Why startups and tech giants are racing to build a practical quantum computer

Amazon, IBM, Google, Intel and Microsoft are all working on quantum technology. Governments around the world have also invested over $55 billion in the tech.

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Gmail’s AI Update Resembles Mail for iOS 18, And Not in A Good Way

When you input a search term, Gmail will no longer list the related emails in chronological order, but based on a relevancy ranking determined by AI.

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OpenAI Gives Its Agents a Voice – Now a ‘Medieval Knight’ Can Read Your Work Emails

The text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools are all based on GPT-4o. OpenAI hinted it may take a similar path with video.

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