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Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models available now through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Flash TTS designs new voices from natural language prompts across 100+ languages. It ranks #1 on Hume AI's Voice Design Benchmark with a score of 71....
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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…
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This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fancy dinners. With so many climate voices in one place, the discourse can feel a little louder than usual. This year, the unavoidable topic is artificial intelligence.…
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In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.
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