Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears
…No journalist has ever been in this building. Here at Google’s Mountain View labs, the company’s creating lifesize AI agents that can see you and talk to you. This one…
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Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back
…Pressure was also building within the US AI industry, particularly fears about the AI advancements China could make while top US AI labs were sidelined. Plus, there was the fact that top…
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart is stepping down after seven years
…On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that Kunal Shah, the founder of an Indian fintech startup called Cred, is taking over as the head of WhatsApp. Cred is an…
AMD’s FSR 4.1 upscaling tech is coming to older graphics cards
…The update builds on its AI-powered upscaling tech, which is supposed to boost performance, while offering sharper visuals and smoother gameplay. Since RDNA 3 chips don’t come with the hardware…
Netflix’s new studio will produce animated shorts with generative AI
…Netflix has been building a new internal studio called INKubator that aims to use AI to produce short-form animated content: The streamer is hiring for a wide variety of roles, including…
Apple is using AI to fix Safari’s extension problem
…It should also appeal to those building an arsenal of personal software for themselves with AI. Safari is playing catch-up with rival browsers in other areas as well. Over the…
Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding
…The company spent most of its WWDC keynote playing catch-up with the state of the AI art, announcing Siri features you can already find on Android phones and in the Claude…
This AI guitar pedal let me roll my own effects
I’m not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend…
Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs
…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwokaAUFAk] Alongside the just-announced launch of the Steam Machine, Valve said that it will let people build their own Steam Machine-like SteamOS-powered desktops…
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