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Rabbit R1 starts shipping to the first batch of US buyers next week

The hotly anticipated AI assistant Rabbit R1 is set to begin shipping to US buyers this week. According to Rabbit, the first batch of Rabbit R1 pre-orders will begin shipping on Sunday, March 31. With US deliveries taking a few … Continue reading

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Elon Musk’s X is facing user decline in daily active users, finds report

Analysts have indicated the number of daily users on X is falling, more than a year after Elon Musk acquired the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Since the rebranding, there have been a lot of changes in the … Continue reading

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Sora AI: What is it? How to access video generator

The makers of ChatGPT, OpenAI, have announced their latest artificial intelligence engine, which is for creating videos from text prompts. OpenAI already has Dall-E for generating static images, and now it has moved into videos to help complete its suite … Continue reading

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Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed back with new content and roadmap in time for movie launch

Ghostbusters is riding high once again in movie theaters and, only one line into this story, the theme tune is already running around your head. Sorry about that. Incoming free DLC for Ghostbusters: Spirit Unleashed brings the new movie, Frozen … Continue reading

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A judge just killed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against an anti-hate research org

A federal judge sided against Elon Musk today, dismissing a lawsuit brought by Musk and X targeting a nonprofit that researches online hate. X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) last year, accusing the group of spreading misleading claims … Continue reading

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Large language models can help home robots recover from errors without human help

There are countless reasons why home robots have found little success post-Roomba. Pricing, practicality, form factor and mapping have all contributed to failure after failure. Even when some or all of those are addressed, there remains the question of what … Continue reading

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Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time

CrowdTangle helps researchers track disinformation, but Meta will close it down before the US election. The tool’s cofounder, Brandon Silverman, says it’s time to force companies to share data.

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FTX estate selling majority stake in AI startup Anthropic for $884 million, with bulk going to UAE

FTX reached an agreement to sell the majority of its stake in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for $884 million.

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Lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against nonprofit CCDH thrown out by judge on free speech grounds

A suit filed by X against CCDH was dismissed by a federal judge, who wrote that Elon Musk’s company was “punishing” the nonprofit for speech.

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Can you hear me now? AI-coustics to fight noisy audio with generative AI

Noisy recordings of interviews and speeches are the bane of audio engineers’ existence. But one German startup hopes to fix that with a unique technical approach that uses generative AI to enhance the clarity of voices in video. Today, AI-coustics emerged … Continue reading

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