AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’
The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.
The shape behind the Einstein problem just revealed strange new physics
A mathematical shape famous for covering a surface without ever repeating has revealed an unexpected ability to twist light into unusual chiral patterns. The discovery could lead to new ways of controlling light, polarization, and advanced optical devices.
AI can sound empathetic and human—but not at the same time
AI-generated texts are increasingly perceived as human, but people can still recognize human writing as such. However, this distinction becomes much more difficult once AI is explicitly instructed to come across as human. This is shown by research involving, among others, Tilburg University, published in the journal Nature Communications. Several experiments involving more than 3,000 …
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I trained the missing encoder for YuE2, so we can all bring our own music into it
YuE2 is an impressive open music model. Give it a style prompt and lyrics, and it can make a complete song. Under the hood, it generates “semantic tokens” that are then turned into audio. The trouble is, the encoder that converts existing recordings into those same tokens was never released. That leaves you without a …
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Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale
AI agents now run in production at a scale of billions of operations a day, and a recurring architectural pattern has surfaced: agents need a compute scratch pad. Not only for coding tasks, but for data aggregation, analysis, verification, and any workflow where semantic reasoning alone isn’t enough. Abnormal AI, a behavioral security service that …
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The Supreme Court Just Blocked Trump’s Efforts to Control Mail-In Voting for the Midterms
The ruling bars the United States Postal Service from implementing restrictions that experts and election officials say would upend voting in November.
AI-powered inspection system gives 3D printers ‘a brain behind the eyes’
Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a camera-based inspection system that can monitor complex 3D-printed structures layer by layer, using AI and machine learning (ML) to measure tiny variations and potentially identify problems before a part ever leaves the printer.
TaoMate – H3 3 steps lora used as a refiner
The lora itself at 3 steps is nothing to write home about. If the scene isn’t mostly static, you can expect slowmo jerky motion, smearing and straight broken output with butchered sound. HOWEVER, it has VERY good visual quality without obvious overcooking plaguing the turbo loras. You add as much steps of non accelerated generation …
AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts
AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue. Researchers cannot say the medications caused these problems, but the patterns may reveal overlooked signals worth studying.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up
The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet.