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AI MusicAs AI beats doctors, regulators shouldn’t force a human into the loop, JAMA piece says
An opinion piece in the medical journal JAMA predicts that autonomous AI will outperform any doctor-AI pairing at…
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Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
Google’s new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home failed to identify my cats correctly during testing. The…
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Cartesia Ships Sonic-3.6: A Streaming TTS Model That Now Leads Both Artificial Analysis Speech Arenas
Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, a new version of its real-time text-to-speech model that now sits at the top…
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Anthropic’s per-token cost runs 4.4 times the average on Vercel, and developers keep paying
Anthropic‘s per-token cost on Vercel’s AI Gateway stands at 4.4 times the average of all other providers, accounting…
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AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
The industry’s boldest claim is that AI will soon improve itself with almost no human oversight. Large language…
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We still don’t know how people are really using AI
Anthropic Economic Index reports show 48% of Claude conversations filtered out as non-work Major AI firms release usage…
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ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
OpenAI is launching a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers that consolidates existing youth safeguards with new safety features.…
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Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for approximately two hours.…
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Claude Code gets a /design command that lets developers create UI mockups right in the terminal
Anthropic has released an early preview of a /design command within Claude Code that allows developers to generate…
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AI systems quietly drop user instructions when they compress context
AI systems discard user instructions when they summarise conversation history to save space. On average, only 17 percent…
18 Aug 2026
