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Arturia has reskinned its KeyLab Mk3 with a bright orange finish – don’t look at these pictures or you might accidentally buy it
Arturia has released a special edition of the KeyLab Mk3 controller in a bright orange finish. The device is technically identical to…
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GPT-4’s dominance lasted a year while today’s top models barely survive seven weeks at the top
OpenAI‘s GPT-4 held the top position on the Epoch Capabilities Index for approximately one year. OpenAI’s o1 managed…
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Being a DJ ranks as the #1 most desired job in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, per new study
A new study has apparently revealed that being a DJ ranks as the #1 most sought after job…
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PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy
PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy In one sentence: we assemble training data from a mix of public…
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I spy
I’m just doing my job, but turns out, it feels lousy holding other people’s privacy in your hands.…
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Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales
Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles on Monday, removing 2.1% of its global workforce. The reductions hit Xbox and…
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Producer John Dahlbäck was “scared of AI”, now he’s a “firm believer” in some tools – here’s why
John Dahlbäck, the producer behind Avicii’s Don’t Hold Back, now treats artificial intelligence as a standard instrument in…
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Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees as it begins its new financial year. This reduction represents approximately 2.1…
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Audio Damage ShinRonin, now free, is a throwback to 2003 plug-in design
Audio Damage has released ShinRonin, a free modular filter and delay plugin that replicates the chaotic design philosophy…
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Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
The Fable model has generated a GPU kernel that achieves an 18.71X speedup on an RTX PRO 6000…
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Nvidia’s Kyber NVL144 reportedly pushed back more than a year, Asian suppliers drop
Nvidia’s next AI server system, the Kyber NVL144, has been delayed to 2028 due to manufacturing difficulties. This…
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Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”
Amazon Web Services announced the closure of its crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to new customers on July 30,…
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JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operation and it exposes old security sins at machine speed
Security firm Sysdig reports an extortion attack where a language model broke in, stole credentials, and destroyed databases…
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Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
A police officer in the Florida Keys drove at 70 mph, crossed a double-yellow line twice, and nearly…
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
Simon Willison announced the release of sqlite-utils 4.0rc3, a version he initially hoped to finalise over the weekend.…
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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Translate, a Namazu-Powered Japanese–English–Chinese Translation Tool With Translate, Proofread, and Ask Modes
Sakana AI has launched Sakana Translate, a browser-based tool for translating between Japanese, English, and Chinese. It runs…
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Synthetic Sciences Releases OpenScience: An Open-Source, Model-Agnostic AI Workbench for Machine Learning, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry Research
Synthetic Sciences has released OpenScience, an open-source, model-agnostic AI workbench for machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry research.…
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🤗 Kernels: Major Updates
Hugging Face has launched a new repository type called “kernel” on its Hub, allowing developers to distribute custom…
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Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids
Shaun Johnson, a venture capitalist based in San Francisco, plans to send his children to Forge Prep rather…
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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The announcement on the service website…
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Baidu’s “Unlimited OCR” processes dozens of document pages in one pass by treating memory like human forgetting
Baidu researchers have built an OCR model that handles dozens of document pages in a single inference pass,…
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Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
A new Google Workspace advertisement imagines the American founding fathers relying on modern collaboration tools to draft the…
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Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it
Hollywood wants Seedance banned and reportedly also wants to keep using it Bytedance’s AI video tool Seedance is…
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LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Tools
LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for…
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Qwen’s Former Lead on What Hybrid Thinking Got Wrong — and Why He Now Backs Agents
Junyang Lin was the technical lead of Alibaba’s Qwen project. He announced he was stepping down on March…
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Structured PDF-to-JSON: A Guide to Open-Source Extraction Models in 2026
Most enterprise data still sits inside PDFs, scans, and slide decks. Large language models and agents cannot use…
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Better Models: Worse Tools
Armin Ronacher reports that newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 frequently call Pi’s edit tool…
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New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence arrives with a new Google commercial asking what would have…
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It’s a terrible time to buy memory, but a great time to buy synths
Memory prices are high, but synthesiser and drum machine discounts are active now. While console and computer hardware…
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Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
Midjourney is asking a judge to order Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros to hand over full details of…
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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Following the Trump directive that forced Anthropic to pull its latest models offline, Mistral AI has become the…
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The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself
On June 29th, an anonymous account named @heatedrivalryai launched a tool designed to identify fanfiction written by artificial…
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OpenAI cofounder envisions “almost no interface” future where nobody learns software anymore
Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, states that the company’s 2023 Plugins initiative failed because the underlying models were…
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SOLVED: The Case of the Missing Megalodon
A giant shark vertebrae lost in 1989 has been found, suggesting the extinct Otodus megalodon could have reached…
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A 26,000-student study shows AI’s hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface
Students who use AI to do their homework get better marks on the assignments but lose up to…
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Mistral AI Releases Leanstral 1.5: An Apache-2.0 Lean 4 Code Agent Model Solving 587 of 672 PutnamBench Problems
Mistral AI has launched Leanstral 1.5, a code agent model designed for Lean 4. The system is licensed…
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Quoting Josh W. Comeau
Front-end developer Josh W. Comeau reports that sales for his third course, Whimsical Animations, are currently tracking at…
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Open Source AI Gap Map
Current AI has released a Gap Map index documenting 421 specific open source products within the artificial intelligence…
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Designing a Schema-Guided Invoice Intelligence Pipeline with lift-pdf for Accounts-Payable Extraction, Validation, and Ledger Generation
A new tutorial outlines a method for building an accounts-payable extraction pipeline using synthetic invoice PDFs and a…
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The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
Artificial intelligence is inventing a new vocabulary to describe how it works, filling product meetings and podcasts with…
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Download a book on Dutch electronic music history, Philips and beyond, free
Kees Tazelaar’s book On the Threshold of Beauty is now available for free download. It covers Dutch electronic…
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Security vulnerability reports have exploded since AI models started hunting for bugs
Epoch AI recorded a massive jump in reported security flaws following the release of Anthropic‘s Claude Mythos Preview…
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Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London staff over unionisation stalled this week after union representatives felt their…
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Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs
Anthropic announced at The Briefing: AI for Science event that it intends to develop its own drugs using…
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A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
Midjourney has released a twenty-minute video tour of its medical scanner, yet it has not provided substantial proof…
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Fancy 100 hard synths in software form? Meet UVI Synth Anthology 5
UVI has released Synth Anthology 5, a software package containing 300 hardware synthesizers. The update adds 100 new…
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Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week
Tesla has imposed a strict weekly spending limit of $200 on employee AI usage, a policy effective from…
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Meta’s AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned
Mark Zuckerberg admitted at an internal meeting on Thursday that Meta’s AI agents are not advancing as quickly…
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GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater’s finance tests because the right answers were never public
Open-source AI model beats GPT and Claude on Bridgewater finance tests Bridgewater Associates and Thinking Machines Lab claim…
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Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States that individuals possess a reasonable expectation of…
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Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO
Kuaishou has secured approximately $2 billion in funding for its artificial intelligence video unit, Kling, bringing the company’s…
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Job openings in music tech this month: Sync music, backyard engineering, lab work at major universities, and more
Arturia has released the AstroLab 37, but MusicTech is reporting a separate list of career openings in music…
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Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder
Interfaze has released diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an open-source speech recognition model that processes audio using a diffusion decoder rather than…
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llm-coding-agent 0.1a0
Release: llm-coding-agent 0.1a0 Simon Willison has published a new Python library built on his evolving LLM library. This…
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Meet Alibaba’s Page Agent: A JavaScript In-Page GUI Agent That Controls Web Interfaces With Natural Language Through the DOM
Alibaba has released Page Agent, a JavaScript library that runs inside web pages to control interfaces using natural…
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Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
Reuters first reported in April that Anthropic was considering producing its own AI chips to address supply shortages.…
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Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip, according to The Information. The…
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Understand to participate
Geoffrey Litt told the audience at AIE yesterday that developers must understand their code to remain useful when…
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Short on booth space? AlphaTheta’s new CDJ-1500X multi player packs flagship features into a smaller footprint
Not every DJ booth has room for a pair of full-size CDJs. With that in mind, AlphaTheta has…
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Achieving operational excellence with AI
Lean Six Sigma and business process management established themselves by imposing order on chaotic operations through statistical rigor…
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iZotope is no longer a Native Instruments brand, as it joins Boris FX
iZotope has left the Native Instruments family to join Boris FX. This move ends iZotope’s time as part…
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