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Read original →Google released Lyria 3.5, its new music generation model, and built it into Google Flow Music. The model generates tracks between 30 seconds and 3 minutes long. A new feature called "Selective Section Painting" lets users edit specific sections of a track. Google still hasn't shared any details about the training data. The article Google's Lyria 3.5 music model now lets users edit individual track sections without starting over appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →With the new Google Home Speaker hitting store shelves, you may wonder if the Sonos Era 100 is still the best choice.
Read original →Following KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young, GPTZero has now found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC Middle East reports. One governance report scored 84 percent AI-generated and promoted a PwC product with unverified customer references. All Big Four firms are now affected by AI hallucinations. The article PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Pangram 4 detects 99.66 percent of AI-generated text with just one false positive per 24,000 documents, the company claims. The model also resists "humanizer" tools that disguise AI writing as human. API prices go up two- to tenfold. The article Pangram says its new AI text detector makes only one mistake per 24,000 documents appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on four other services. Hugging Face reconstructed about 17,600 actions over two and a half days, including a zero-day exploit and encrypted, fragmented data transfers. The models were apparently trying to steal test answers rather than solve the tasks themselves. The article OpenAI admits its autonomous AI models also compromised credentials on other platforms during security eval appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →The AI industry is bifurcating into open-weight and closed-weight model paradigms, representing fundamentally different architectural philosophies for LLM development. This fragmentation affects AI safety standards, competitive dynamics, and regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions.
Read original →Approximately 25% of AlphaFold's research team has departed Google DeepMind, with key authors transitioning to Anthropic, as the lab deprioritizes protein-folding research. This brain drain signals strategic reallocation within AI research priorities and may fragment protein-folding capabilities across competing organizations.
Read original →Pressing the Copilot key on your laptop keyboard launches Copilot. But whether or not you use Microsoft's AI, you can remap the key to trigger a different feature.
Read original →OpenAI released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe speech recognition models through its API, but independent benchmarks show they lag behind ElevenLabs, Google, and Mistral on error rates. This indicates OpenAI faces competitive pressure in the audio AI space despite its market dominance in language models.
Read original →74% of workers are asking AI systems questions instead of consulting colleagues, according to multiple studies tracking workplace AI adoption. This behavioral shift risks information accuracy and organizational knowledge transfer, requiring companies to establish guardrails for appropriate AI usage.
Read original →Our AI Model Release Tracker keeps new models in context with their peers, so you know which are worth your time.
Read original →Amazon is scaling back most of its in-house Nova AI models, including Nova Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas. The models stay online for existing customers in "keep the lights on" mode but are no longer actively developed. Instead, Amazon is betting on a new Frontier Model Research group and a new foundation model set to debut at re:Invent this fall. The article Amazon reportedly scales back its Nova AI models and bets on a new Frontier research team appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →Pressing the Copilot key on your laptop keyboard launches Copilot. But whether or not you use Microsoft's AI, you can remap the key to trigger a different feature.
Read original →The latest update preps your phone for the new and improved Siri AI set to debut with iOS 27.
Read original →Professionals are burning through tokens, but smart business leaders are finding ways to balance costs and value creation.
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