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Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 14:16:00

Science AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome Share Copy link × Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API. The genome is our cellular instruction manual. It’s the complete set of DNA which guides nearly every part of a living organism, from appearance and function to growth and reproduction. Small variations in a genome’s DNA sequence can alter a

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Deals: Rare offer on 1TB M4 MacBook Air at $200 off, Apple Solo Loops $15, all-black Ocean Band 20% off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-08-30 20:45:33

Alongside the ongoing $100 price drop on the 512GB M4 Mac mini, today we spotted a rare deal on the 24GB M4 MacBook Air with the upgraded 1TB SSD at $200 off the list price. From there we move over to some official Apple Watch band deals – the Solo/Braided Loop bands start from just $15 today and we have a rare savings opportunity on the official all-black Apple Ocean Band at 20% off. Those offers join a host of charging and accessory offers, some discounts on M4 iPad Pro, and more. Rare deal h

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Insta360 has a cheaper Flow 2 gimbal for the masses

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-31 04:00:16

It duplicates many of the features from the Flow 2 Pro, which launched in January. Insta360's new gimbal isn't quite "Pro," but its pricing isn't, either. The Flow 2 includes many of the features from the Flow 2 Pro while costing $50 less. The Insta360 Flow 2 ticks most of the boxes that its Pro sibling does. (The more expensive gimbal launched earlier this year.) Like that model, the Flow 2 features a built-in selfie stick and a tripod. It supports advanced subject tracking, golden ratio subj

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Games That Weren't: Preserving Cancelled and Unreleased Video Game History

news.ycombinator.com Posted 2025-08-31 13:41:34

Thanks to Sailor of Triad, a rare prototype of Alien 3 for the Commodore 64 has just been discovered recently. This was a demo that was seemingly produced for producer Joe Bonar to take a look at back in the day to see progress with the project. It is possible that it could have been also passed onto magazines for screenshots – which makes it a shame that it wasn’t included as a demo on the likes of Commodore Force or Format at the time. Continue reading →

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Nvidia DLSS 4 transformer model exits beta, set to bring improved graphics to more games

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2025-08-31 18:27:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Why it matters: Most people think of multi-frame generation when they hear about Nvidia DLSS 4, but the transformer model upgrade in DLSS Super Resolution might be the update's most consequential upgrade. Many games can already benefit from the feature, and it's likely to become the standard across upcoming releases. The latest version of Nvidia's DLSS Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction SDK, r

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Experience Making a 1-minute AI movie with my 7-year old daughter

news.ycombinator.com Christian Sandor 2025-08-31 02:35:58

My daughter Kate (7 years old) really loves Minecraft! Together, we used several generative AI tools to create a 1-minute animation based on only 1 input photo of her. The whole project took around 20 hours of work and I learned several lessons that I want to share here. Context I am still trying to get used to the enormous speed with which generative AI is progressing. 6 months ago, I was blogging about my experiments with Tencent’s Hunyuan Video, which was an absolute breakthrough at that ti

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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-31 20:40:32

A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a summary judgment — meaning the judge was able to decide on the case without sending it to a jury — in favor of Meta, finding that the company’s training of AI models on copyrighted books in this case fell under the “fair use” doctrine of c

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IBM sees enterprise customers are using ‘everything’ when it comes to AI, the challenge is matching the LLM to the right use case

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-09-01 03:42:36

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Over the last 100 years, IBM has seen many different tech trends rise and fall. What tends to win out are technologies where there is choice. At VB Transform 2025 today, Armand Ruiz, VP of AI Platform at IBM detailed how Big Blue is thinking about generative AI and how its enterprise users are actually deploying the technology. A key them

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PicoGUS gets CD-ROM emulation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 01:02:33

(note: please use firmware v3.0.1, which fixes issues with MPU emulation in SB and USB modes) New features/changes CD-ROM emulation PicoGUS now supports CD-ROM emulation (in other words, PicoGUS is now an ODE)! It emulates a Panasonic/MKE interface and drive and supports CD images in ISO or BIN/CUE stored on a USB drive plugged into the USB port on the PicoGUS. CD-ROM emulation has been tested in DOS and Windows 9x and CD audio playback is fully supported. CD-ROM emulation is available in So

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Apple’s C1 is coming to this product next, and skipping the rest

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-01 08:58:35

When Apple launched its iPhone 16e earlier this year, it included a brand new component: the C1 modem. But more recent devices like the M3 iPad Air and A16 iPad haven’t included it. Here’s where the C1 will appear next, and which products are not expected to get it. Why the C1 modem was worth the wait For many years, Apple has been working to develop its own cellular modem tech. Absent that tech being ready, the company has had to rely on Qualcomm to supply 5G modems for its devices. While Qu

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DeepSpeech Is Discontinued (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 10:15:45

Status This project is now discontinued. Project DeepSpeech DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. Project DeepSpeech uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. Documentation for installation, usage, and training models are available on deepspeech.readthedocs.io. For the latest release, including pre-trained models and checkpoints, see the latest release on GitHub.

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AirPods Max 2: Here’s what rumors say is coming next

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-01 20:49:57

AirPods Max debuted nearly five years ago, and aside from a minor USB-C revision last year, there’s never been a proper AirPods Max 2. But Apple is preparing a true next generation model. Here’s what we know so far about AirPods Max 2. Lighter weight design When AirPods Max launched in 2020, users found a lot to like about the over-ear headphones, but two complaints stood out: the $550 price tag was expensive and they were fairly heavy to wear Remind you of any other products? AirPods Max 2

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Your next job? Managing a fleet of AI agents

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-09-01 20:01:21

akinbostanci/Getty Images Agentic AI is moving fast, but are we ready for it? "We're all going to be CEOs of a small army of AI agents," predicted Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the digital economy lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and founder of Workhelix, recently quoted in The New York Times. "We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in

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AI Agents Are Getting Better at Writing Code—and Hacking It as Well

wired.com Will Knight 2025-09-01 19:58:50

The latest artificial intelligence models are not only remarkably good at software engineering—new research shows they are getting ever-better at finding bugs in software, too. AI researchers at UC Berkeley tested how well the latest AI models and agents could find vulnerabilities in 188 large open source codebases. Using a new benchmark called CyberGym, the AI models identified 17 new bugs including 15 previously unknown, or “zero-day,” ones. “Many of these vulnerabilities are critical,” says

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Forget about AI costs: Google just changed the game with open-source Gemini CLI that will be free for most developers

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-09-02 02:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more For power users and many developers, the command line is the foundational interface for controlling a system and its applications. Also sometimes referred to as a terminal, the command line interface (CLI) is how users issue commands and build applications as an alternative, or as a complement, to an integrated developer environment (IDE)

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Deals: 512GB M4 Mac mini, Desert Titanium iPhone 16 Pro, black Apple Watch Ultra 2, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-09-02 04:45:16

Today’s Apple deals are once kicking off with a notable deal on the latest M4 Mac mini, but this time we are highlighting a $100 price drop on the mid-range 512GB model down at $699. Next up, we are moving over to a new Amazon all-time low on the premium renewed Desert Titanium 256GB iPhone 16 Pro at $127 off and higher-end models at up to $349 off as well as deals on the satin black Apple Watch Ultra 2 and the all-new Mac mini-ready OLED Samsung Smart Monitors with $300 in FREE credits. Head be

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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 hits PS5 on August 12

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 04:17:31

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 will be released for PS5 on August 12 . We knew the port was coming this summer , and now we have an actual date. Ninja Theory says the title will be optimized for both the standard-issue PS5 and the more powerful PS5 Pro. This is a real homecoming for the franchise, as Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was originally released for PS4 back in 2017. That PS5 release date coincides with the cross-platform launch of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced. This version includes a

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Google's Imagen 4 text-to-image model promises 'significantly improved' boring images

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-03 01:17:11

Google has unveiled its latest text-to-image model Imagen 4 with the usual promise of "significantly improved text rendering" over the previous version, Imagen 3. The company also introduced a new deluxe version called Imagen 4 Ultra designed to follow more precise text prompts if you're willing to pay extra. Both arrive to a paid preview in the Gemini API and for limited free testing in Google AI Studio. Google describes the main Imagen 4 model as "your go-to for most tasks" with a price of $.

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I changed 5 settings on my TV to give it an instant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-09-03 02:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to popular belief, the "sharpness" setting on your TV doesn't af

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Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan throws cold water on 1-person, billion-dollar startup idea at VB Transform: ‘more people allow you to grow faster’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-03 04:35:53

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more As AI-powered tools spread through enterprise software stacks, AI coding platform Windsurf’s rapid growth is becoming a case study in what happens when developers adopt agentic tooling at scale. In a session at this week’s VentureBeat Transform 2025 conference, CEO and co-founder Varun Mohan discussed how Windsurf’s integrated development

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Best Portable Air Conditioners: Cooling Your Home One Room at a Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 04:03:00

Not only did the Midea MAP14HS1TBL excel in performance compared with most portable air conditioners we tested, but it also has a lot of features and specialty options. This model isn't cheap, but it's a well-rounded luxury AC unit with everything you need -- and then some. To start, the MAP14HS1TBL has the highest cooling capacity of any other model we tested. Those 12,000 BTUs come in handy for cooling larger spaces up to 550 square feet, and it showed in the performance. The Midea model beat

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Google rolls out text-to-image model Imagen 4 for free

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-03 08:36:21

Google Imagen 4, which is the company's state-of-the-art text-to-image model, is rolling out for free, but only on AI Studio. In a blog post, Google announced the rollout of the new Imagen 4 model, but reminded users that it's free for a "limited time" only. Unlike the old text-to-image model, Imagen 4 offers significant improvements and takes the text-to-image generation quality to the next level. Comic generated using Imagen 4 Google says it has two new Imagen models. The first one is cal

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The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-03 00:14:03

The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization 24 Jun, 2025 a world of LLMs without tokenization is desirable and increasingly possible Published on 24/06/2025 • ⏱️ 29 min read In this post, we highlight the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's role, its fragility and we'll build a case for removing it. After understanding the design space, we'll explore the potential impacts of a recent promising candidate (Byte

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New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-09-03 12:03:01

Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning – but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, there’s been a quiet push within AI companies to make models more emotionally intelligent. As foundation models compete on soft measures like user preference and “feeling the AGI,” having a good command of human emotions may be more important than hard analytic skills. One sign of that focus came on Friday, when prominent open-source

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Analyzing a Critique of the AI 2027 Timeline Forecasts

news.ycombinator.com Zvi Mowshowitz 2025-09-03 15:44:53

There was what everyone agrees was a high quality critique of the timelines component of AI 2027, by the LessWrong user and Substack writer Titotal. It is great to have thoughtful critiques like this. The way you get actual thoughtful critiques like this, of course, is to post the wrong answer (at length) on the internet, and then respond by listening to the feedback and by making your model less wrong. This is a high-effort, highly detailed, real engagement on this section, including giving t

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4Real-Video-V2: Feedforward Reconstruction for 4D Scene Generation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 08:35:33

1Snap Inc. 2KAUST 4Real-Video-V2 is capable of computing a 4D spatio-temporal grid of video frames and 3D Gaussian particles for each time step using a feed-forward architecture. Its architecture has two main components, a 4D video diffusion model and a feedforward reconstruction model. Your browser does not support the video tag. This represents a major upgrade over 4Real-Video, introducing a new 4D video diffusion model architecture that adds no additional parameters to the base video model

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Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 11:05:10

We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation. In March, we introduced Gemini Robotics, our most advanced VLA (vision language action) model, bringing Gemini 2.0’s multimodal reasoning and real-world understanding into the physical world. Today, we’re introducing Gemini Robotics On-Device, our most powerful VLA model optimized to run locally on robotic devices. Gemini Robotics On-Device shows strong general-purpose dexterity an

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The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-04 11:14:03

The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization 24 Jun, 2025 a world of LLMs without tokenization is desirable and increasingly possible Published on 24/06/2025 • ⏱️ 29 min read In this post, we highlight the desire to replace tokenization with a general method that better leverages compute and data. We'll see tokenization's role, its fragility and we'll build a case for removing it. After understanding the design space, we'll explore the potential impacts of a recent promising candidate (Byte

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Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-04 16:00:41

We sometimes call chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT "robots," but generative AI is also playing a growing role in real, physical robots. After announcing Gemini Robotics earlier this year, Google DeepMind has now revealed a new on-device VLA (vision language action) model to control robots. Unlike the previous release, there's no cloud component, allowing robots to operate with full autonomy. Carolina Parada, head of robotics at Google DeepMind, says this approach to AI robotics could make robot

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Google DeepMind’s optimized AI model runs directly on robots

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-04 16:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google DeepMind is rolling out an on-device version of its Gemini Robotics AI model that allows it to operate without an internet connection. The vision-language-action model (VLA) comes with dexterous capabilities similar to the one released in March, but Google says “it’s small and efficient enough to run directly on a robot.” The flagship Gemini

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The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes

Google DeepMind’s optimized AI model runs directly on robots

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