Google unveils Gemini AI, enhancing Android accessibility with image descriptions and question answering via TalkBack integration, introducing Expressive Captions with duration to capture audio emphasis, and improving speech recognition with Project Euphonia resources and African language support.
Hedra, an AI video platform startup, raised $32 million to build omnimodal foundation models like Character-3 that generate lifelike character videos from text, audio, and image inputs, empowering creators and marketers to produce narrative-driven content at scale.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has unveiled DreamO, an AI-powered image generation playground built on Hugging Face Spaces, enabling users to create visually stunning AI-generated images through an intuitive interface powered by cutting-edge models like Stable Diffusion.
AI's untapped potential in accelerating species discovery, ecosystem tracking, and addressing biodiversity knowledge gaps offers a transformative opportunity to meet global conservation targets, but requires expanding data-sharing, refining algorithms, and ensuring ethical practices.
Groundbreaking AI technology is revolutionizing mammography screening by accurately triaging low-risk cases, enabling radiologists to focus on high-risk and complex cases, potentially reducing costs by up to 30% through efficient collaboration between AI and human experts.
ROC curves offer a powerful tool for visualizing and optimizing classification model performance by plotting true positive rate against false positive rate across all thresholds, with the area under the curve (AUC) representing the model's ability to distinguish positive and negative examples.
Introducing 'ty', a lightning-fast Python type checker and language server crafted in Rust, offering a preview experience through an online playground and the uvx command, open-source under MIT license with contributions welcomed in the Ruff repository.
Meta's plans for 'super sensing' facial recognition glasses that can identify people by name and track activities have reignited privacy debates, as the tech giant re-evaluates policies after previously scrapping similar technology due to concerns.
In a groundbreaking legal case, an AI-generated video of a slain man addressing his killer during sentencing leads a judge to hand down the maximum sentence for manslaughter, marking a powerful use of technology to amplify victims' voices.
Rockstar Games unveils a gripping 3-minute trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6, offering glimpses into the lives of protagonists Jason and Lucia, introducing new characters, and teasing a Florida-inspired setting in the fictional Leonida state.