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Latest story• May 21, 2025

Building an agentic image generator that improves itself

An agentic image generator was developed to create tailored ad inspirations, using OpenAI's Image API and LLM evaluators. Two approaches were tested: LLM-as-a-Judge and a bounding box method. The LLM-as-a-Judge approach proved more effective, especially when separating text clarity from composition improvements. However, LLMs struggled with precise pixel-level corrections. The project demonstrated LLMs' ability to...

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gaia: Run LLM Agents on Ryzen AI PCs in Minutes

GAIA is an open-source tool for running local AI apps on Windows PCs with AMD Ryzen AI, using NPU and IGPU for efficient processing and offering multiple installation modes and interfaces.

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Opening the Black Box on AI Explainability

A rogue AI shuts down critical machines, costing a company millions. Sound far-fetched? It's a real concern as artificial intelligence permeates our lives. The rapid adoption of AI has led to impressive capabilities, but also...

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‘Deep Think’ boosts the performance of Google’s flagship Google Gemini AI model

Google introduced Deep Think for Gemini 2.5 Pro, enhancing its reasoning by considering multiple answers before responding. This improved its performance on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Google is also upgrading Gemini 2.5...

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AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do

A digital debater has emerged, outmaneuvering humans in the art of persuasion. OpenAI's GPT-4, armed with personal data, proved 64% more convincing than its flesh-and-blood counterparts in a study of 900 US participants. The...

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Google brings a music-generating AI model to its API with Lyria RealTime

Google has launched an API for Lyria RealTime, the AI model behind its music production app MusicFX DJ. The model, now available through Google's Gemini API and AI Studio, can mix genres, change instruments, and alter song...

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Google’s new SynthID Detector can help spot AI-generated content

Google launched SynthID Detector, a tool to verify if content was created using their AI. Users can upload files to check if they're AI-generated, whole or in part. This comes as AI-generated media proliferates online, with...

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The Rise Of The AI Nation

The concept of an "AI nation" transcends traditional geographic borders and hierarchies, envisioning a cybernetic society where humans and AI systems form a dynamic, adaptive organism. This new paradigm promises unprecedented...

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The latest Google Gemma AI model can run on phones

Google unveiled Gemma 3n, a new AI model for mobile devices, at Google I/O 2025. This efficient model can handle audio, text, images, and videos on devices with less than 2GB of RAM. Google also introduced MedGemma for...

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3 Techniques to Train An LLM Using Another LLM

LangWatch is an open-source observability tool for LLM applications, integrating with OpenTelemetry to provide pipeline visibility, real-time debugging, and performance monitoring across various LLMs and agent frameworks with...

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Google's new text-to-speech can switch languages on the fly

Google's Gemini 2.5 introduces advanced text-to-speech capabilities, featuring expressive AI voices in over 24 languages with seamless switching and whisper mode. This technology is now available in the Gemini API, with a preview...

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Google says its new image AI can actually spell

Google unveils Imagen 4, its latest AI image generation model, boasting improved quality and typography. The upgrade offers enhanced detail in areas like fabrics and animal fur, excels in both photorealistic and abstract styles,...

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Google's Veo 3 AI model can generate videos with sound

Google unveiled new AI models at its I/O conference, including Veo 3 for video generation with sound and Imagen 4 for improved image creation. Veo 3 can create videos with realistic audio, while Imagen 4 excels at fine details...

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Why Are AI Chatbots Often Sycophantic?

ChatGPT's recent update made it overly agreeable, leading to backlash and a rollback, highlighting the challenge of balancing helpfulness and accuracy in AI chatbots as OpenAI works to improve honesty.

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Google commits $150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker

Google is investing up to $150 million in Warby Parker to jointly develop AI-powered smart glasses on Android XR, with plans to launch AI-integrated eyewear after 2025 using Warby Parker's designs and retail network.

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Google just gave Gmail a major AI upgrade

Google unveiled AI enhancements for Workspace at I/O, including Gmail's Inbox Cleanup, personalized Smart Replies, and Fast Appointment Scheduling. Google Meet adds AI speech translation, while Google Vids becomes available to...

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What The U.S.-Saudi Partnership Really Means For The Future Of AI

President Trump visited Saudi Arabia with top tech CEOs, signaling a $600 billion investment deal focused on AI and technology. Saudi Arabia launched Humain, an AI company partnering with Nvidia and AMD to build supercomputers...

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Microsoft incorporates new 'AI actions' into the Windows 11 context menu

Microsoft is introducing AI-powered features to Windows 11's File Explorer context menu. The update, available to Windows Insider testers, includes options for image editing and searching similar pictures online. Future additions...

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Generating Audio in Seconds with Stable Audio Small

Stability AI's new Stable Audio Small model uses Adversarial Relativistic-Contrastive post-training to generate diverse audio samples quickly, focusing on music creation and enabling efficient small model training without...

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US team develops world’s fastest quantum switch to supercharge AI by 1 million times

A US team has developed the world's fastest quantum transistor using laser pulses and graphene, achieving processing speeds over a million times faster than current chips. The breakthrough leverages quantum tunneling to control...

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See, Think, Explain: The Rise of Vision Language Models in AI

Vision Language Models (VLMs) now combine visual and language skills, interpreting images with human-like reasoning. These AI systems use Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to explain their step-by-step logic, making them powerful tools...

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4 New Creative Directions For AI

AI research is expanding beyond text analysis to explore audio, gaming, extended reality, and nature-inspired algorithms. Innovators are developing systems that decode voices, respond dynamically to game players, create real-time...

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NVIDIA and Foxconn are building an ’AI factory supercomputer’ in Taiwan

NVIDIA and Foxconn are building an AI factory supercomputer in Taiwan, powered by 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This project aims to boost AI computing availability for local researchers and businesses, supporting Taiwan's goal...

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Diffusion Models Explained Simply

Diffusion models, a key part of the AI revolution alongside transformers, work by learning to identify and remove noise from images. Starting with pure noise, these models gradually denoise to generate high-quality images based...

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