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Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-01 18:07:54

Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago - without anyone knowing for sure what it is. The band has a verified page on the music streaming platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners. However, none of the four named musicians in the band have given any interviews or appear to have individual social media accounts, and there are no r

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AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

news.ycombinator.com Netflix Technology Blog 2025-09-01 11:34:51

AV1 @ Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening Unleashing Film Grain Synthesis on Netflix and Enhancing Visuals for Millions Netflix Technology Blog 8 min read · 1 day ago 1 day ago -- Listen Share Li-Heng Chen, Andrey Norkin, Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Agata Opalach and Anush Moorthy Picture this: you’re watching a classic film, and the subtle dance of film grain adds a layer of authenticity and nostalgia to every scene. This grain, formed from tiny particles during the film’s development, is more

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xAI prepares Grok 4 Code as it plans to take on Claude and Gemini

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-01 19:00:18

xAI is preparing the rollout of Grok 4, which replaces Grok 3 as the new state-of-the-art model. Ahead of the rollout, testers on X have again spotted references to a few new Grok 4 models. One of the models is called "grok-4-prod-mimic," which reportedly excels at enterprise use cases like data extraction, coding, and text summarisation. It also possesses deep domain knowledge in finance, healthcare, law, and science. But "grok-4-prod-mimic" isn't the only new model coming to Grok. Another

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Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 08:10:27

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Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley startups can’t stop hiring?

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-01 22:00:35

In the last week, social media users have shared dozens of stories about encounters with Soham Parekh, a software engineer who seems to have been simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups — unbeknownst to the companies — for the last several years. But who is Parekh, how did he pull off his career as a serial moonlighter, and why can’t Silicon Valley get enough of him? Origins of virality The saga all started when Suhail Doshi — CEO of image generation startup Playground AI —

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Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users' ChatGPT Logs

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-02 01:12:02

Amid its long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the paper of record will soon have access to all of OpenAI's user archives — including the stuff that was deleted. As Ars Technica reports, the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit by the New York Times against OpenAI has granted the newspaper and its co-plaintiffs, the New York Daily News and the Center for Investigative Reporting, access to the AI company's logs to see exactly how much copyright was infringed. In its pr

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Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30%

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-09-02 03:00:19

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task, effectively creating a “dream team” of AI agents. The method, called Multi-LLM AB-MCTS, enables models to perform trial-and-error and combine their unique strengths to solve problems that are too complex

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Why I'm switching to the MacBook Air M4 from my Windows laptop (and you should too at this price)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-09-02 02:00:19

MacBook Air M4 in Sky Blue Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET The MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon starting at $850 ahead of Prime Day, while the 15-inch is also $150 off, starting at $1,049. Also: The best Prime Day laptop deals we've found When Apple announced the MacBook Air M4 earlier this year, it was clear that the laptop would be an incremental upgrade from last year's model, with the latest in Apple silicon and a host of software and AI-powered features. The fact that the 13-inch versi

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High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

news.ycombinator.com Labiausse 2025-09-02 01:27:01

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Meet Soham Parekh, the engineer burning through tech by working at three to four startups simultaneously

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-02 02:07:15

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. One name is popping up a lot across tech startup social media right now, and you might’ve heard it: Soham Parekh. On X, people are joking that Parekh is single-handedly holding up all modern digital infrastructure, while others are posting memes about him working in front of a dozen different monitors or filling in for the thousands of people that M

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AirTag’s newest feature is perfect for travel, here’s how it works

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-02 06:37:05

Vacation season is here, and for many, this could be the first time traveling since Apple gave AirTag a brand new feature in iOS 18.2. Here’s how that feature works, and why it’s perfect for your upcoming trip. Recover lost luggage faster with new AirTag feature One of the most popular uses for AirTag is as a luggage tracker. Airlines lose luggage every day, and AirTag provides an easy way for you to track down your belongings fast. But recently, that was made a whole lot easier with a featu

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Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 05:57:48

At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, after people complained about poor subtitles. Much of the translation was nonsensical, with missing punctuation in many sentences. At the time, some fans speculated th

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Neither AI nor E Ink can make touchscreen trackpads a good idea

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 06:25:05

E Ink, the company behind the highly readable displays you'll find in ereaders the world over, has created a new touchscreen trackpad for some reason. And rather than act as an extension of your laptop's screen, E Ink thinks it should be a dedicated home for AI interactions. The new touchscreen trackpad appears to use a color E Ink display, not unlike what you'll find on the Kobo Libra Colour or the Kindle Colorsoft, and is supposed to offer the normal swiping, tapping, dragging and clicking fu

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A Molecule with a Ring to It

news.ycombinator.com Francl 2025-08-30 03:24:03

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TechCrunch All Stage brings back early launch prices for a limited time

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-09-02 06:11:12

We’re almost there, and ticket rates have officially rolled back with savings of up to $425. TechCrunch All Stage, the founder summit of the year, is just around the corner. On July 15, Boston becomes startup central. Are you ready to gain the insights and strategies you need to launch or scale? Now’s the moment For a limited time, we’ve brought back early launch pricing. Founders pay just $155. Investors, only $250. These are the lowest rates you’ll see before the doors open at SoWa Power St

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Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

news.ycombinator.com Peter Krouse 2025-09-02 08:42:11

Research vessel Blue Heron in drydock at Great Lakes Towing on the Old River Channel of the Cuyahoga River. Rual Lee CLEVELAND, Ohio - A ship that docked in Cleveland last summer harbored what scientists believe was a previously unknown form of life. The revelation occurred after the research vessel Blue Heron, which was monitoring harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, began having mechanical issues. The captain, Rual Lee, piloted the boat to Cleveland where it could be examined in a dry dock at

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An Algorithm for a Better Bookshelf

news.ycombinator.com Erica Klarreich 2025-08-31 01:12:50

Drop in at a library, and you’ll likely notice that most shelves aren’t full—librarians leave some empty space on each shelf. That way, when they get new books, they can slot them into place without having to move too many other books. It’s a simple-enough idea, but one that arises in a host of settings in computer science that involve sorted data, such as an alphabetically ordered census repository, or a list of connections between members of a social network. In such situations, where the ent

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The Stars of ‘Superman’ Claim to Have No Knowledge of Their DC Futures

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-09-02 09:00:22

We don’t know much about the future of James Gunn’s DC Universe, but one thing seems all but certain: Superman will be back. He’s the universe’s most powerful metahuman, after all, and one of the most famous, popular characters on the DC roster. Clearly, he’s going to have a role to play in whatever is coming next. And, along with Superman, come a few of his friends and foes. People like Lois Lane and Lex Luthor. So it kind of goes without saying that David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nich

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Owning a Piece of ChatGPT Was Already Messy. Then Elon Musk Made It Weirder

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-02 10:55:34

OpenAI has a message for anyone who thinks they’re about to cash in on the AI boom by buying a new “OpenAI token” on Robinhood: Don’t. But in a chaotic turn, Elon Musk just suggested that even the company’s real equity might be an illusion. The maker of ChatGPT, in a rare public warning posted on X (formerly Twitter), disavowed any involvement with crypto-like financial products claiming to offer a piece of its business. “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity,” the company wrote. “We did

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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-09-02 07:57:18

Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” paving the way for a major overhaul of the country’s Medicaid program. If passed by the House, which could happen before the July Fourth holiday, millions of people stand to lose their health insurance. The number of people without health insurance in the United States nearly halved from 2013 to 2023, falling from around 14 percent to a record low of less than

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The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-02 12:42:29

It's safe to say there's a lot riding on "artificial intelligence," a buzzy and nebulous swath of the tech industry pedaling all kinds of large language model (LLM) and similar software products. Since ChatGPT emerged in November 2022, venture capitalist investments in AI have skyrocketed, rising to $131.5 billion in 2024, an increase of 52 percent compared to 2023. In the last three months of 2024, over half of all venture capital in the world went to AI companies. One of the flashier bits of

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The best Prime Day kitchen deals on air fryers, Instant Pots and sous vide machines

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 14:00:19

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you’re considering updating your kitchen setup, first check out these early Prime Day kitchen deals that are already live — the actual sale doesn't start until Tuesday. Engadget editors and reporters have tested and reviewed a whole bunch of kitchen tech and Amazon’s annual July sal

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New Research Debunks Myth That Brain Cells Stop Growing After Childhood

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-02 14:00:50

You’ve probably heard the old canard that new brain cells simply stop forming as we become adults. But research out today is the latest to show that this isn’t really true. Scientists in Sweden led the study, published Thursday in Science. They found abundant signs of neural stem cells growing in the hippocampus of adult brains. The findings reveal more about the human brain as we get older, the researchers say, and also hint at potential new ways to treat neurological disorders. “We’ve found

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Google rolls out its new Veo 3 video-generation model globally

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-09-02 06:56:48

In Brief Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries. Video generation via the new model is available only to paying subscribers of Google’s AI Pro plan and is capped at three videos per day. Veo 3, which Google showed off in May, lets users generate videos up to eight seconds long using text prompts. Google’s Josh Woodward has said that the company is working on adding image-to-video generation capabilities to

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A Leading Indicator Has Emerged Suggesting That the AI Industry Is Cooked

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-02 16:38:19

In the world of cultural commentary, there are plenty of benchmarks used to determine when a trend is on its deathbed. From the classic shark-jumping episode of "Happy Days" to the adoption of Facebook by grandparents the world around, those with their ears to the ground can spot when a craze is on its way out. In that vein, the news that Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build supercharged AI sure strikes us as bad news for that industry. Let'

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Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-09-02 18:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Dust, a two-year-old artificial intelligence platform that helps enterprises build AI agents capable of completing entire business workflows, has reached $6 million in annual revenue — a six-fold increase from $1 million just one year ago. The company’s rapid growth signals a shift in enterprise AI adoption from simple chatbots toward sophi

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Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-02 18:01:56

The foundational deal of the modern web, a handshake agreement that powered two decades of search and content, is officially dead. Cloudflare just put a price on scraping the internet, and it’s coming for artificial intelligence’s free lunch. Almost 30 years ago, two Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built Google on a simple bargain: content creators would let them copy the entire web in exchange for traffic. For years, that traffic powered ad revenue, subscriptions, and the g

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E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-02 18:37:33

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. E Ink has developed a new touchpad for laptops featuring the same electronic paper technology found in e-readers. It’s not the first company to look at the ever-growing size of laptop touchpads and see the potential of additional functionality, but instead of serving as a second smaller screen for the computer’s OS, E Ink is positioning its touch

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OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-02 19:29:17

Among the strangest twists in the rise of AI has been growing evidence that it's negatively impacting the mental health of users, with some even developing severe delusions after becoming obsessed with the chatbot. One intriguing detail from our most recent story about this disturbing trend is OpenAI's response: it says it's hired a full-time clinical psychiatrist with a background in forensic psychiatry to help research the effects of its AI products on users' mental health. It's also consulti

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Creator of "Indie Band" Who Insisted It Wasn't AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-02 20:54:14

A "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI — and still somehow accumulating over half a million listeners on Spotify — has finally admitted the truth. Earlier this week, a self-proclaimed "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown claimed on its "official" X account that it "never" used any AI, accusing "so-called 'journalists'" of "pushing the lazy, baseless theory that The Velvet Sundown is 'AI-generated' with zero evidence." It was a preposterous claim that

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Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes

AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

xAI prepares Grok 4 Code as it plans to take on Claude and Gemini

Show HN: I rewrote my notepad calculator as a local-first app with CRDT syncing

Who is Soham Parekh, the serial moonlighter Silicon Valley startups can’t stop hiring?

Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users' ChatGPT Logs

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Meet Soham Parekh, the engineer burning through tech by working at three to four startups simultaneously

AirTag’s newest feature is perfect for travel, here’s how it works

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess

Neither AI nor E Ink can make touchscreen trackpads a good idea

A Molecule with a Ring to It

TechCrunch All Stage brings back early launch prices for a limited time

Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

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Owning a Piece of ChatGPT Was Already Messy. Then Elon Musk Made It Weirder

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance

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A Leading Indicator Has Emerged Suggesting That the AI Industry Is Cooked

Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web

E Ink is turning the laptop touchpad into an e-reader for AI apps

OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

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