For centuries, the now-endangered Crimean Tatar language (traditionally spoken in Crimea) has been threatened by a series of Russian invasions — first, by the Russian empire in the 18th and 19th centuries; then, by the forced deportations of Crimean tatars in 1944, ordered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. In 2014, …
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A new “empathic voice interface” launched today by Hume AI, a New York–based startup, makes it possible to add a range of emotionally expressive voices, plus an emotionally attuned ear, to large language models from Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and OpenAI—portending an era when AI helpers may more routinely get …
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French AI startup Mistral has dropped its first multimodal model, Pixtral 12B, capable of processing both images and text. The 12-billion-parameter model, built on Mistral’s existing text-based model Nemo 12B, is designed for tasks like captioning images, identifying objects, and answering image-related queries. SEE ALSO: OpenAI Strawberry might release sooner …
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When Elon Musk shared an image showing Kamala Harris dressed as a “communist dictator” on X last week, it was quite obviously a fake, seeing as Harris is neither a communist nor, to the best of our knowledge, a Soviet cosplayer. And, as many observers noted, the woman in the …
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If anyone could make the Dark Side sound good, it was James Earl Jones. The actor, who died Monday at the age of 93, provided the voice for Darth Vader in more than a dozen Star Wars properties, from A New Hope to Star Tours. He made the Force sound …
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TL;DR: A wide range of AI and ChatGPT courses are available to take for free on Udemy. There are absolutely loads of AI and ChatGPT courses on Udemy. You can learn all about this exciting technology with these online resources, giving you the tools you need to truly harness AI …
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ESPN’s AI-generated recap had one job for U.S. soccer legend Alex Morgan’s final professional match. Instead of describing the 15th minute of the game, when Morgan poignantly removed her cleats and walked off the field while tearfully waving to the packed crowd as they chanted her name, the ESPN AI-powered …
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Apple’s “Glowtime” event on Monday gave us the iPhone 16 series with built-in Apple Intelligence features. But the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max aren’t the only Apple devices to get this new AI ability. Apple Intelligence, which include AI-powered writing tools, photo-editing …
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Apple’s just-announced iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro will likely go down in the books as the “AI” iPhone, the one that’s supposed to power all kinds of new generative artificially intelligent features, and in a very Apple-y way. But some analysts are predicting that these new phones will catalyze …
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Apple Intelligence is now coming to the iPhone 16 series — and it’s free. There was some debate about whether Apple’s new suite of AI tools would cost a subscription fee. But VP of Software Craig Federighi confirmed at the Apple event on Monday, that it doesn’t cost a thing …
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