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Latest story• Dec 27, 2025

AI is getting better and better at generating faces — but you can train to spot the fakes

AI-generated faces have become so realistic that even "super recognizers" with exceptional facial processing abilities can only spot fake faces 41% of the time, while typical people identify just 30% correctly. However, a brief five-minute training session that teaches people to look for rendering errors like unnatural hairlines and odd teeth significantly improved detection rates to 64% for super recognizers and...

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Small Language Models Beat GPT-4 for Our Use Case: 94% Cost Reduction

A company slashed their AI costs from $8,200 to $470 monthly by switching from GPT-4 to smaller language models for customer support, discovering that 87% of queries were simple FAQ variations that didn't require advanced AI...

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The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here

Big Tech companies are developing AI agents that can complete complex tasks like booking flights and managing schedules, but these systems require unprecedented access to personal data including emails, calendars, and operating...

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How Accurate Is Automated Video Transcription? A Deep Dive into AI vs. Human Accuracy

AI video transcription reaches 85-95% accuracy in ideal conditions but drops with poor audio or noise, while humans achieve 99% accuracy. Combining automated transcription with human review optimizes speed, cost, and precision.

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I’m an AI expert – here are my top 5 secret tools that could change your life in 2026

An AI expert identified five specialized tools that outperform general chatbots for specific tasks, including Goblin Tools for task breakdown and Pine for bill negotiation.

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CosyVoice – Multi-lingual large voice generation model, providing inference, training and deployment full-stack ability.

CosyVoice is an open-source text-to-speech system that generates human-like speech in 27 languages and dialects, including Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean. The latest Fun-CosyVoice 3.0 version achieves state-of-the-art...

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Do you think you can tell an AI-generated face from a real one?

AI-generated faces have become so realistic that people struggle to identify them as fake, according to new research testing human detection abilities. Even individuals with exceptional facial recognition skills could only...

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Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Launches Startup to Simplify AI

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer launched Dazzle AI, raising $8 million to build practical AI tools for everyday use. She shut down her previous company Sunshine to focus on this new venture.

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AI Agents Explained: What They Really Are, Why They Matter, and Why Most People Get Them Wrong

AI agents are autonomous software systems that perceive environments, make decisions, and take actions to achieve goals without human oversight. They possess reasoning capabilities and adapt behavior based on changing...

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How OpenAI is defending ChatGPT Atlas from attacks now - and why safety's not guaranteed

OpenAI created an AI attacker to test ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks that hijack browser agents. Despite security measures, OpenAI admits agentic web browsers will likely never be completely secure.

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Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

After his terminal startup failed due to lack of funding, a developer created Toad, a unified terminal interface that integrates multiple AI coding tools like OpenHands, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI under one streamlined...

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ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot

ChatGPT launched a "Year in Review" feature giving users personalized 2025 conversation statistics, including message counts, AI pixel art, and custom awards. It's available in select countries for users who enabled conversation...

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Settle down, nerds. AI is a normal technology

Tech entrepreneur Anil Dash argues that AI and large language models should be viewed as normal technology rather than magical breakthroughs, since machine learning has existed for decades and represents another layer of...

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Lemon Slice 2 turns any single image into a real time, talking AI avatar

Lemon Slice 2 transforms any single image—including portraits, illustrations, or artwork—into a real-time talking avatar that can hold conversations without requiring video training or custom setup. The technology uses a...

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Can AI fix the operating room? This startup thinks so

Hospitals lose two to four hours of operating room time daily due to scheduling chaos and coordination problems between surgeries, creating significant financial losses. Startup Akara is tackling this issue by developing an...

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How to use AI as a sparring partner in your ideation process

Three product teams dramatically outperformed 15 others over six months, not because they had better artificial intelligence tools, but because they refused to let AI do their thinking for them. While struggling teams generated...

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Iterative Matrix Steering: Forcing LLMs to "Rationalize" Hallucinations via Subspace Alignment

Researchers created iterative matrix steering to make large language models defend false information by aligning their internal representations with hallucinated content, forcing AI systems to rationalize incorrect answers.

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Claude Wrapped in the terminal, with a WASM raymarcher

A developer created a terminal-based "Claude Wrapped" tool that analyzes users' Claude AI usage statistics from the past month and compares them globally through a festive 3D-rendered Santa Claude. The project combines a...

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Hideo Kojima warns AI is making games and art “no longer special” in self-interview

Renowned game developer Hideo Kojima expressed concerns that AI technology is diminishing the value of creative work, making games and art "no longer special." Reflecting on his 2001 game Metal Gear Solid 2, Kojima clarified it...

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Why AI isn’t replacing UX designers – it’s making them indispensable

New research shows AI is elevating UX designers to strategic roles rather than replacing them. Organizations using AI in UX are expanding teams by 51% as designers focus on complex thinking while AI handles routine tasks.

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executorch: On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch

PyTorch launched ExecuTorch, a unified platform that deploys AI models directly on mobile devices, microcontrollers, and edge hardware without requiring format conversions or manual code rewrites. The system uses ahead-of-time...

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Building Multicloud Resilience for the AI Era

Recent outages at AWS and Azure demonstrate why organizations need multicloud strategies to reduce vendor risk and maintain operations. Companies are distributing workloads across specialized providers to achieve better...

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What Are RAG Embeddings?

RAG embeddings convert text into numerical vectors that capture semantic meaning, enabling AI systems to find related concepts even when different words are used. Unlike keyword searches that only match exact terms, embedding...

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How to master ChatGPT basics in under an hour - with my favorite free resources

A curated collection of videos and articles provides a fast-track learning path for mastering ChatGPT basics within 60 minutes, covering essential features like sign-up, prompting techniques, mobile capabilities, memory...

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