Dutch Commerce Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to satisfy with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a invoice that might bar Chinese language chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor tools, and one that might hit ASML particularly arduous. ASML, primarily based within the Netherlands, is Europe’s most…
Simply over a week in the past, I attended a significant synthetic intelligence convention in Zhongguancun, Beijing’s bustling high-tech district. It was full of fascinating periods referring to every little thing from recursive self-improvement—the concept fashions can tweak their very own code and advance indefinitely—to humanoid robots. And it featured just a few legends of…
async def demo_memory(): explain( “DEMO 4 — Memory: persistent MEMORY.md across sessions”, “””Long-term memory survives between runs by persisting to MEMORY.md. In session 1 the agent records a user preference; in a brand-new session 2 (fresh engine, fresh transcript) that memory is injected into the system prompt, so the agent already ‘knows’ the user.”””) mem_path…
Gradium today released two real-time speech translation models: stt-translate and s2s-translate. Both run across five languages and stream results live in the browser. Gradium claims a better accuracy-latency tradeoff than gpt-realtime-translate and gemini-3.5-live-translate. It also adds output voice control, including cloning, that gpt-realtime-translate lacks. TL;DR Gradium launched two real-time speech translation models: stt-translate (speech →…
It’s because AI fashions don’t simply want textual content knowledge to enhance; they want numerous inputs in different varieties, like audio or video. If Google can collect extra knowledge, and extra varieties of information, from its huge array of customers, then possibly it might innovate quicker than its opponents. Google’s huge consumer base is unfold…
Backrooms, the recent horror movie mega-hit, is a film replete with ideas about repetition and degradation. Its central theme—the horror of a world that seems to be mindlessly, monstrously, ripping off our own—was regarded in some circles as a critique of generative AI. The idea has clearly struck a nerve. Recently passing $300 million at…
The AI boom has fueled dozens of new startups and minted a new class of billionaires. It has also produced a serious shortage of memory chips — a critical component for compute-hungry AI models — which some predict could persist through 2027. This era of RAMageddon isn’t just a corporate problem. As demand spikes and…
The period of tokenmaxxing is over. After the AI business encouraged companies to max out their AI budgets earlier this 12 months, and a few corporations even built employee leaderboards to encourage internal AI usage — they’re now realizing simply how simple it’s to spend enormous sums of cash on AI and get little in…
Slate, maker of the stripped-down EV pickup truck, discovered one other solution to simplify its product: the battery. When the startup revealed its beginning value on Wednesday — $24,950 earlier than vacation spot, taxes, and different charges — it additionally mentioned it had modified its battery technique, eliminating the non-obligatory 240-mile pack however bumping the usual…
The Trump administration has been happier speaking to Anthropic these days, in line with folks conversant in the matter: They don’t must cope with CEO Dario Amodei anymore, as a result of he’s been changed in conferences about re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 AI mannequin by his cofounder Tom Brown. “Tom Brown isn’t being a…
