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  • AWS News Blog: Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-sonic-human-like-voice-conversations-for-generative-ai-applications/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications Feedly Summary: Amazon Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on Amazon Bedrock that streamlines speech-enabled applications by offering unified speech recognition and generation capabilities, enabling natural conversations with contextual understanding while eliminating the need for…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/gemini-25-pro-pricing/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model on LM Arena and, from my own testing, a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new…

  • Cloud Blog: How AI will help address 5 urgent manufacturing challenges

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/manufacturing/five-manufacturing-trends-being-reshaped-by-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How AI will help address 5 urgent manufacturing challenges Feedly Summary: In today’s dynamic business landscape, manufacturers are facing unprecedented pressure. The relentless pace of e-commerce combined with a constant threat of supply chain disruptions, creates a perfect storm. To overcome this complexity, leading manufacturers are leveraging the…

  • Hacker News: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents

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    Source URL: https://krisp.ai/blog/improving-turn-taking-of-ai-voice-agents-with-background-voice-cancellation/ Source: Hacker News Title: Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advancements in AI voice agents, particularly focusing on the integration of Krisp’s background voice and noise cancellation technologies. This introduces significant improvements in turn-taking accuracy and speech…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing 4o Image Generation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/introducing-4o-image-generation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing 4o Image Generation Feedly Summary: Introducing 4o Image Generation When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality in that it could both input and output audio and images. The “o" stood for "omni", and the image…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces Feedly Summary: There’s a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems". It’s already sat at the top of the LM Arena…

  • Hacker News: Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model

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    Source URL: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/ Source: Hacker News Title: Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of Gemini 2.5 highlights significant advancements in AI reasoning and performance capabilities, setting a new benchmark among AI models, particularly in complex tasks. For professionals in AI and cloud security,…