Friday Squid Blogging: Bioluminescent Bacteria in Squid
The Hawaiian bobtail squid has bioluminescent...
Mistral AI Launches Text-to-Speech Model
The system, which operates in nine languages, is designed to support critical voice agent workflows.
Fighting financial crime with hybrid AI
Here’s how consulting leader Valentin Marenich and his team built a hybrid AI system that combines machine learning, generative AI, and human oversight to deliver real-world results in a highly regulated environment.
Slopaganda and Sora, lol
In this week's roundup: Iran's slopaganda, WebinarTV, and RIP Sora.
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”
Meta ups Texas AI data center investment from $1.5B to $10B
The company plans to expand the data center's capacity to 1 gigawatt as it undergoes an internal restructuring of its teams.
Why pay for proprietary search APIs when you can synthesize research agents offline?
OpenResearcher: A Fully Open Pipeline for Long-Horizon Deep Research Trajectory Synthesis
AI swarms are coming: Here’s why it matters
If the last wave of AI felt like hiring a very smart intern, this one feels more like managing an entire organization that never sleeps (and occasionally argues with itself).
Cohere Unveils Open Source Speech Model for Edge Devices
Cohere Transcribe is an open source speech recognition model with 2 billion parameters that’s designed to be deployed at the edge.
Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature
The move isn't surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.