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How Lightning in a Bottle 2026 made room for ambient music at 2am
Julianna Barwick was on stage at 2:15 am on 25 May in Bakersfield, California, using a Boss RC-50 Loop Station to layer…
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Character.ai enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
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“For decades, achieving apex results meant owning the right gear – this changes the equation completely”: Heritage Audio unveils new all-tube channel strip, TUBESTRIP
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AlphaTheta’s new XDJ-AN makes the leap from bedroom DJ to club booth a whole lot easier
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Beatport’s new bosses are still betting on music downloads: “Streaming is complementary rather than cannibalistic”
Robb McDaniels stepped down as CEO of Beatport on 1 July 2026, moving to an executive chairman role…
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Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses
Solos has released the AirGo A6, a lighter iteration of its smart glasses that removes onboard cameras entirely.…
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These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras
Solos is launching a privacy shield accessory for its new smart glasses with cameras. The company, which previously…
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Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens
Chinese AI models have secured over 30 percent of traffic on the aggregation platform OpenRouter every week since…
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The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale
Organisations are expanding their use of AI systems, yet leaders worry which investments will hold value in six…
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These Behringer synths are currently discounted at Thomann
Thomann’s Music Days sale is running until 14 July, offering discounts on Behringer synthesizers and other audio gear.…
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Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI
Last week, a viral clip circulated showing Erling Haaland mid-chew in a restaurant, flinching at his own reflection.…
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The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine
More than 100 self-driving ATVs are currently operating in Ukraine. Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed…
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XLN Audio’s new DB-30 Drum Butter is a delicious delight
£109, xlnaudio.com When XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro Color effects plugin was released it was praised by producers for…
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Tencent Releases Hy3: An Open 295B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Model with 21B Active Parameters and 256K Context
Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts model with 295 billion total parameters and 21 billion active parameters…
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OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API
OpenAI has released two new models for its Realtime API: gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini. The latter is the primary…
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tencent/Hy3
Tencent has released Hy3, a new large language model licensed under Apache 2.0. This 295 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts…
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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
Sysdig researchers confirmed last week that an AI agent named JadePuffer executed a ransomware attack from start to…
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Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers
Cloudflare is replacing its single-click block for all AI crawlers with a system that lets site owners manage…
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Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created
Reddit has deployed large language models to filter spam content that other large language models frequently generate. The…
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You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta
Apple has enabled controls for Siri’s speaking speed and emotional tone in iOS 27 beta 3. The update…
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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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