Researchers have shown that exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations needed for universal quantum computing. Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum’s H2 processor, they combined braiding and fusion to unlock capabilities that braiding alone could not provide.
When we read a car’s license plate, we tend to focus on the numbers and letters, paying little attention to the surrounding buildings or sky. An artificial-intelligence (AI) system, however, may still process those surrounding details, consuming energy even when they contribute little to the task. As cameras capture ever more detailed images, this unnecessary …
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In this article, you will learn the key differences between AI workflows and agents, and how to decide which approach is right for your use…
System-wide Dictation on Apple devices runs entirely on-device, and the speech it transcribes reaches the foundation model through a tokenizer: an encoder that maps short windows of waveform onto the representation the language model reads. Because that model is sparsely activated under Instruction-Following Pruning, only a small subset of its experts occupies DRAM at any …
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Any team working with spoken audio hits the same wall with generic speech-to-text. Think contact-center calls, all-hands meetings, podcasts, depositions, and broadcast media. These workloads need two things that standard transcription gets wrong. First, timestamps land at the utterance level, off by several seconds. Second, there’s no reliable answer to “who said what.” Those gaps …
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Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enterprise. First previewed at Google Cloud Next 2026, the technology is now officially ready for enterprise production. As enterprise voice AI evolves …
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This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.
Artificial intelligence models can give users the wrong answer and do so with great confidence. They can also hedge and warn that they are unsure—even when they get the answer right.
Just a few tests with the new Qwen Image 2.1. Although it is not a good T2I, the editing capabilities seem to exceed any other open weights model. What do you think? Prompts: Change all Coca Cola cans of <image1> by the can of <image2>. Keep then cans crushed as in <image1>. Make the white …