Over the past few years, X has released a number of features to make itself a friendlier hub for influencers. The latest effort to attract social media talent? Its own clipping tool. Clipping is the pivotal social media technique by which longer videos are spliced into TikTok-attention-span length “clips” and then strategically posted to engage…
Meta FAIR researchers have released e-means, a drop-in replacement for Lloyd’s k-means algorithm. The e-means clustering algorithm reaches the loss Lloyd’s k-means gets in 25 epochs in 1.4 to 2.6 epochs. It ships in FAISS 1.16.0 under faiss.contrib.e_means. For anyone building vector indexes, quantizers or data-curation pipelines, clustering is often the slowest offline step. e-means…
While established venture firms continue to attract capital, first-time fund managers are facing one of the toughest fundraising environments in years. But that didn’t stop Sahir Raoof, a former SignalFire investor and executive at two healthcare startups, from raising $27.5 million for his first solo VC fund. Raoof’s firm, Proximal Ventures, is betting that AI…
OpenAI has acquired an AI travel agent called Odessia, according to Odessia’s founder, Francis Davidson. Davidson says in a post announcing the deal that he’s now working for OpenAI, helping the AI lab with the future of travel. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this looks like an acqui-hire. Davidson’s announcement focused largely…
New York is gearing up to enforce one of the country’s most significant AI safety laws. The state opened a registration portal Tuesday, with which large frontier AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI will be required to register by January 1, 2027. The RAISE Act, New York’s safety and transparency bill, kicks in at the…
Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2. Claude Fable 5.2 is a frontier model from Anthropic for long-horizon coding, research and agentic work. Mythos 5.2 is the same underlying model with fewer cyber and biology safeguards. It beats Opus 5.5 on most evaluations and costs less than the 5.1 models. TL;DR Size:…
In an effort to make ChatGPT an even better consumer discovery engine, OpenAI is launching a host of new features designed to help companies control how users interact with their businesses. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a Business Hub that will serve as a place where companies can create business profiles that — in…
Zyphra has released ZONOS3-Mini, an open-source text-to-speech model built for real-time use on local devices. The ZONOS3-Mini text-to-speech model is a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) with 800M total and 100M active parameters. It supports zero-shot voice cloning and word-level delivery control. Weights ship under Apache 2.0. For AI devs,…
Apple TV is making its content more accessible to Deaf audiences with the launch of a new Sign Language Interpretation feature, the company announced on Tuesday. The feature will initially be available across a limited set of titles, starting this Friday with the release of “Being Heumann,” a biopic about disability rights activist Judy Heumann….
Remote access company N-able has confirmed it took down its cloud-hosted offering to fix a slew of security vulnerabilities that were published online this week, giving the company no advance notice to fix them. In a status update on its website, the company said its hosted N-Central offering for customers is now offline “while we…
