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  • Slashdot: Google Launches Veo 3, an AI Video Generator That Incorporates Audio

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/20/2042219/google-launches-veo-3-an-ai-video-generator-that-incorporates-audio Source: Slashdot Title: Google Launches Veo 3, an AI Video Generator That Incorporates Audio Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has launched Veo 3, a noteworthy AI video generator that incorporates synchronized audio, alongside Imagen 4 and Flow for image and video creation. These tools emphasize enhancements in user…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemma 3 QAT Models

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/gemma-3-qat-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemma 3 QAT Models Feedly Summary: Gemma 3 QAT Models Interesting release from Google, as a follow-up to Gemma 3 from last month: To make Gemma 3 even more accessible, we are announcing new versions optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) that dramatically reduces memory requirements while maintaining…

  • Cloud Blog: How WindTL is transforming wildfire management with Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/windtl-is-transforming-wildfire-risk-management-with-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How WindTL is transforming wildfire management with Google Cloud Feedly Summary: Imagine a world where we could outsmart wildfires, predict their chaotic spread, and shield communities from their devastating reach. That’s the vision Rocio Frej Vitalle and the Improving Aviation team had when they created WindTL, a tool…

  • The Register: Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI ‘Manhattan Project’ and get MAIM’d

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/schmidt_ai_superintelligence/ Source: The Register Title: Ex-Googler Schmidt warns US: Try an AI ‘Manhattan Project’ and get MAIM’d Feedly Summary: That’s Mutual Assured AI Malfunction in the race for superintelligence ANALYSIS Former Google chief Eric Schmidt says the US should refrain from pursuing a latter-day “Manhattan Project" to gain AI supremacy, as this will…

  • The Register: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/los_alamos_lab_to_research/ Source: The Register Title: Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies Feedly Summary: Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is leading a project to transform how chips are designed and manufactured, to make them more energy efficient and able to…

  • Slashdot: CERN’s Mark Thomson: AI To Revolutionize Fundamental Physics

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/02/04/0015227/cerns-mark-thomson-ai-to-revolutionize-fundamental-physics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CERN’s Mark Thomson: AI To Revolutionize Fundamental Physics Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the transformative role of advanced artificial intelligence at Cern, particularly at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in revolutionizing particle physics and potentially uncovering fundamental truths about the universe. Prof. Mark…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI’s o3-mini: Faster, Cheaper AI That Fact-Checks Itself

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/1916254/openais-o3-mini-faster-cheaper-ai-that-fact-checks-itself?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s o3-mini: Faster, Cheaper AI That Fact-Checks Itself Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has introduced o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model aimed at improving efficiency and accuracy in STEM task processing. This model demonstrates significant advancements over its predecessor by reducing errors and speeding up…

  • The Register: What better place to inject OpenAI’s o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/openai_los_alamos_national_lab/ Source: The Register Title: What better place to inject OpenAI’s o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right? Feedly Summary: Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuclear weapon security, also tick OpenAI has announced another deal with Uncle Sam, this time to get its very latest models in the hands of US government…