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- Perplexity’s AI voice assistant is now available on iOSby Umar Shakir on April 23, 2025 at 11:11 pm
Perplexity’s iOS App just got an update enabling support for the company’s conversational AI voice assistant. Now Apple users can activate the assistant in the app and ask it to perform tasks like writing emails, setting reminders, and making dinner reservations. You can even navigate away from […]
- Adobe and Figma tools are getting ChatGPT’s upgraded image generation modelby Jay Peters on April 23, 2025 at 5:00 pm
OpenAI’s upgraded image generator in ChatGPT brought a surge of users to the AI service thanks to its ability to create Studio Ghibli-style images and really dull dolls, and now it’s coming to other apps. The company says the same “natively multimodal model” powering the image generator […]
- YouTube is everything and everything is YouTubeby David Pierce on April 23, 2025 at 1:05 pm
Looking back, the original idea behind YouTube seems almost quaint. The mythic founding story goes like this: in January of 2005, two PayPal employees, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, were at a party. People were taking photos and videos on their digital cameras. Sharing photos was easy, sharing video […]
- I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anythingby Victoria Song on April 23, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Tech evangelists have been yammering about "working smarter, not harder" for years. Now, two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their AI tool Cluely to "cheat on everything." That's what it literally says in Cluely's online manifesto: […]
- Nvidia’s AI assistant on Windows now has plugins for Spotify, Twitch, and moreby Tom Warren on April 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Nvidia is updating its G-Assist AI assistant on Windows to take it beyond optimizing game and system settings. G-Assist originally launched last month as a chatbot primarily focused on improving PC gaming, but it’s now getting plugin support so you can extend the AI assistant to control Spotify, […]
- Microsoft 365 Copilot redesigned with new search, image, and notebook featuresby Tom Warren on April 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Microsoft is launching a newly designed version of its Microsoft 365 Copilot app soon. The app, which is used by businesses as a hub for Office documents and now Microsoft’s AI tools, is moving a little closer to the regular Copilot consumer features with updated AI-powered search, a new Create […]
- OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Googleby Jay Peters on April 22, 2025 at 8:48 pm
If Google is forced to sell off Chrome, ChatGPT’s head of product told a judge today that OpenAI would be interested in buying the browser, Reuters reports. Google breaking off Chrome is a proposed remedy by the US Department of Justice in US v. Google, in which Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year […]
- The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AIby Wes Davis on April 22, 2025 at 7:40 pm
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the existence of generative AI yesterday in new rule changes for its annual Oscars awards ceremony. Rather than dictate its use or require disclosures, the Academy simply says using AI doesn’t, on its own, hurt a movie’s chances — […]
- Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Geminiby Wes Davis on April 22, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Testimony this week from Google’s antitrust trial shows that Google gives Samsung an “enormous sum of money” each month to preinstall the Gemini AI app on Samsung devices, reports Bloomberg. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has ruled Google’s search engine is an illegal monopoly, its lawyers are […]
- The Washington Post will now let ChatGPT summarize its articlesby Jay Peters on April 22, 2025 at 3:45 pm
The Washington Post and OpenAI have announced a “strategic partnership” that will “make high-quality news more accessible in ChatGPT,” according to a Washington Post press release. OpenAI has already made partnerships with over 20 other news publishers, including News Corp, Business Insider […]
- Can GRPO be 10x Efficient? Kwai AI’s SRPO Suggests Yes with SRPOby Synced on April 24, 2025 at 2:30 am
Kwai AI's SRPO framework slashes LLM RL post-training steps by 90% while matching DeepSeek-R1 performance in math and code. This two-stage RL approach with history resampling overcomes GRPO limitations. The post Can GRPO be 10x Efficient? Kwai AI’s SRPO Suggests Yes with SRPO first appeared on […]
- Zhipu.AI’s Open-Source Power Play: Blazing-Fast GLM Models & Global Expansion Ahead of Potential IPOby Synced on April 16, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Zhipu.AI open-sources faster GLM models (8x speedup), launches Z.ai, aiming for global expansion, potentially ahead of IPO. The post Zhipu.AI’s Open-Source Power Play: Blazing-Fast GLM Models & Global Expansion Ahead of Potential IPO first appeared on Synced.
- DeepSeek Signals Next-Gen R2 Model, Unveils Novel Approach to Scaling Inference with SPCTby Synced on April 11, 2025 at 2:43 pm
DeepSeek AI, a prominent player in the large language model arena, has recently published a research paper detailing a new technique aimed at enhancing the scalability of general reward models (GRMs) during the inference phase. The post DeepSeek Signals Next-Gen R2 Model, Unveils Novel Approach to […]
- AI Video Generation Race Shifts from Capability to Profitability, Challenging Sora’s Dominanceby Synced on March 10, 2025 at 2:54 pm
The AI video generation landscape is shifting from capability to profitability, challenging OpenAI Sora's dominance. Competitors are surpassing Sora in quality and efficiency, with users preferring alternatives. The focus is now on improvements like precise control and style customization for […]
- Beyond Next-Token Prediction? Meta’s Novel Architectures Spark Debate on the Future of Large Language Modelsby Synced on January 25, 2025 at 3:19 pm
Meta AI's recent research introduces the BLT architecture, eliminating tokenizers for improved multimodal processing, and the Large Concept Model (LCM), which operates on semantic "concepts" instead of tokens for more human-like reasoning and better cross-lingual generalization. These innovations […]
- Nvidia Intensifies Robot Push with New Humanoid Platform as Industry Giants Eye Lucrative Futureby Synced on January 6, 2025 at 2:12 pm
Nvidia will launch Jetson Thor for humanoid robots in H1 2025, entering a growing market where Google is also active. The robotics sector is projected for substantial growth. Nvidia offers integrated hardware and software solutions. Simultaneously, China's rapidly developing domestic humanoid robot […]
- Automating Artificial Life Discovery: The Power of Foundation Modelsby Synced on December 31, 2024 at 6:25 pm
A research team introduces Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL). This novel framework leverages vision-language FMs to automate and enhance the discovery process in ALife research. The post Automating Artificial Life Discovery: The Power of Foundation Models first appeared on Synced.
- Llama 3 Meets MoE: Pioneering Low-Cost High-Performance AIby Synced on December 28, 2024 at 8:35 pm
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and NVIDIA proposes upcycling approach, an innovative training recipe enables the development of an 8-Expert Top-2 MoE model using Llama 3-8B with less than 1% of the compute typically required for pre-training. The post Llama 3 Meets MoE: […]
- DeepMind’s JetFormer: Unified Multimodal Models Without Modelling Constraintsby Synced on December 26, 2024 at 3:00 pm
A DeepMind research team introduces JetFormer, a Transformer designed to directly model raw data. This model maximizes the likelihood of raw data without depending on any pre-trained components, and is capable of both understanding and generating text and images seamlessly. The post DeepMind’s […]
- NVIDIA’s nGPT: Revolutionizing Transformers with Hypersphere Representationby Synced on December 23, 2024 at 10:21 pm
An NVIDIA research team proposes the normalized Transformer, which consolidates key findings in Transformer research under a unified framework, offering faster learning and reduced training steps—by factors ranging from 4 to 20 depending on sequence length. The post NVIDIA’s nGPT: […]
- I replaced my iPad Air with this Samsung tablet, and it's better in several wayson April 23, 2025 at 5:55 pm
The new Galaxy Tab S10 FE+ is bigger and more powerful than last year's version - but is it worth spending an extra $50?
- You'll soon manage a team of AI agents, says Microsoft's Work Trend reporton April 23, 2025 at 5:18 pm
We'll all be working for 'Frontier Firms' soon, according to Microsoft.
- The great AI skills disconnect - and how to fix iton April 23, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Exclusive: A new Workera report shows business leaders and employees are deeply split on AI upskilling. Bridge that divide, or else.
- I tested the latest robot vacuum innovation, and it'll leave clean freaks droolingon April 23, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Few things surprise me in the robot vacuum market, but Eufy's new Omni E28 is one of them.
- Nvidia launches NeMo software tools to help enterprises build custom AI agentson April 23, 2025 at 1:50 pm
The agentic AI software is meant to complement human work to improve productivity, the company says.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 is here: Take a look at what's newon April 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm
AI agents, GPT-4o image generation, and a new Copilot Notebook feature are all headed your way.
- AI agents arrive in US classroomson April 23, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Kira AI's personalized learning platform is currently being implemented in Tennessee schools. How will it change education?
- Why I just added Gemini 2.5 Pro to the very short list of AI tools I pay foron April 23, 2025 at 12:33 pm
I refuse to pay for most AI tools but a new one just made the cut - here's why I'm stunned.
- The 4 types of people interested in AI agents - and what businesses can learn from themon April 23, 2025 at 10:01 am
Consumers want agentic AI to simplify their daily lives. This research identifies four personality types who are interested in AI agents.
- Anthropic mapped Claude's morality. Here's what the chatbot values (and doesn't)on April 23, 2025 at 8:22 am
A study of conversations shows Claude mirroring certain user values and strongly resisting others.
- 1Password extends enterprise credential management beyond humans to AI agentson April 22, 2025 at 1:00 pm
The technology company has introduced three new agentic AI capabilities to its security platform. Here's what those additions mean for IT professionals.
- 3 clever ChatGPT tricks that prove it's still the AI to beaton April 22, 2025 at 12:49 pm
OpenAI's been busy adding some seriously cool features to ChatGPT recently to take it to the next level. Here are a few I love.
- OpenAI's most capable models hallucinate more than earlier oneson April 22, 2025 at 10:15 am
Researchers say the hallucinations make o3 'less useful'.
- This video of humanoid robots running a half marathon is amazing, hilarious, and a little creepyon April 21, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Despite lost limbs, overheating, and a crash or two, a few of the 20 robots competing in China over the weekend did quite well. See for yourself.
- I used ChatGPT to translate image text when Google's tool failed me - and things got weirdon April 21, 2025 at 6:35 pm
I tested Google Translate and ChatGPT side by side on a tricky image. I did get my answer, but I also got to look inside one very disordered AI brain.
- This ChatGPT trick can reveal where your photo was taken - and it's unsettlingon April 21, 2025 at 4:04 pm
ChatGPT can 'read' your photos for location clues - even without embedded GPS or EXIF data. Here's why that could be a problem.
- I replaced my Ring with this outdoor security camera - and it has no subscriptionon April 21, 2025 at 2:33 pm
The Aqara Camera Hub G5 Pro provides AI-powered visual recognition technology with a host of home security features. Best of all, it doesn't require a monthly subscription.
- My two favorite AI apps on Linux - and how I use them to get more doneon April 21, 2025 at 1:42 pm
I was totally against AI until I found two tools that make handling all the research I do every day much easier.
- Motorola Solutions to outfit first responders with new AI-enabled body camerason April 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Unveiled today, AI Assist aims to help public safety officers do their jobs more efficiently - and safely. Here's how it works.
- Will AI replace software engineers? It depends on who you askon April 21, 2025 at 8:59 am
Should software professionals be worried about their career prospects with the rise of AI agents? Industry observers' reactions to the potential impact of OpenAI's latest innovation range from guarded pessimism to pragmatism.