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Researchers warn that the growing use of AI in policing could exacerbate discrimination against minorities. Reliance on biased historical data creates a feedback loop, leading to increased police surveillance in already overburdened neighborhoods. Experts…
This shark was made entirely using AI services, and it happened as follows. 1. The mesh and rig were created in Tripo. 2. The rest and swimming animations were done through Opus 5.5 in a procedural way using Blender MCP. 3. The bite animation looks like this: >...
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Elon Musk: humanity will most likely lose control over artificial intelligence Elon Musk said that people are unlikely to be able to control artificial intelligence when it becomes much smarter than humanity. In his opinion, the only reasonable way out is to teach in advance...
Now DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 763 billion parameters can be run locally even on a video card with 12 GB of video memory. Researchers from the Austrian institute IST Austria presented a quantized version of the model using the GSQ-RCO method, and the developers of the Strata inference engine...
BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when…
Australian national team footballer Christian Volpato licensed his AI likeness to company Callandor, which will monetize his digital image and voice. This reflects a growing trend among athletes to control their AI representations amid evolving…
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified…
⚖️ In Russia, they have begun to introduce AI into the judicial system - the technologies are already being tested in more than 20 regions. This was announced by the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov. Participants in the pilot project include Moscow, Moscow, Amur and Vologda regions. Neural networks are planning...
Desigma Desigma is a free and open source desktop design tool. Works locally, without internet, and directly imports Figma files in .fig format. There are all the usual functions - autolayout, components and options, setting up connections in prototypes and...
I found an open source project that combines 74 skills for developing games using Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine and other game engines. It covers graphics creation, character animation, performance optimization, publishing games on Steam and much more.…
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits, suggesting that baseline expertise is a prerequisite for turning…
Gemini Pro Argon for 1.5 years for the price of coffee? Gemini Pro for 18 months can be bought for $6 (480₽ instead of 30,000₽) — last 2 days of Jio promo! > 4.0 Argon top for vibecoders > Nano Banana 2 PRO (images) > Video generation (videos, clips, movies) > 5 TB cloud in Google One included…
🎬 Seedance 2.5 learns to generate 4K video — with realistic facial expressions and smooth movements. Introducing Seedance 2.5 4K — a new version of the AI model for video generation with improved detail, natural movements, and more expressive character facial expressions. One of…
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time. The model runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but…
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
✔️ Block announces speech model. The company led by Twitter co‑founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey unveiled the conversational model Dessa, trained solely on human speech recordings, without text or base models. Block calls Dessa the world’s first AI conversationalist,…
🚀 Kimi K3.1 Pro breaks into the world's top 4 strongest AI models — and could become the leader among open-weight models. The new model from Moonshot AI scored 55 points in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, improving on the previous Kimi K3 by 11 points. Higher…
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
⚡️ Kimi K3.1 Pro approaches GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 — but costs significantly less. Chinese Moonshot AI unveiled a new version of its flagship model with a 1 million token context window. According to the company's internal tests, Kimi K3.1 Pro shows…
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Cost per task, however, can triple, driven mainly by the system prompt that gets resent with every…
📚 Russia plans to allocate 500 million rubles per year for AI and cybersecurity textbooks. The Russian Ministry of Education plans to annually direct 500 million rubles to provide students in grades 5–11 with textbooks on artificial intelligence and information security. In schools…
🤖 ElevenLabs introduced Chimera — a tool for creating realistic AI characters. It combines the Eleven4 voice model and the Seedance 2.5 video generator. What Chimera can do: — create a character from a photo or image; — animate facial expressions; — voice text with a natural-sounding voice.
The BBC series 'Blue Planet III' includes less polished, cloudy frames to prove its authenticity and counter AI‑generated content. Using cutting‑edge technology, including the first underwater CCTV camera, the series reveals astonishing behavior…
How to learn any topic with AI: from zero to results. You can watch 20 lectures and forget everything a week later. Or you can assemble an AI tutor: it will test your knowledge, explain the complex parts, and force you to apply them. Google has built such a loop into Gemini: test → lessons → assignments → review…
ElixirOffice — an open‑source office suite whose toolbar, menus, and dialog boxes are modeled after Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Even the keyboard shortcuts match. In Windows, all 228 Word keyboard shortcuts work as usual, so there’s no need to relearn…
Block introduced Dessa, an AI model trained on human conversations.
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