Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a 5-model audio stack spanning ASR, TTS and realtime interaction. The main model is Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex speech model built for voice agents that call tools. Qwen also cut prices: about 85% on Realtime, about 70% on TTS and up to 95% on ASR. Is it deployable? Yes, as…
New polling suggests the Parti Québécois could be headed toward a majority government in next week’s provincial election, while support for the Coalition Avenir Québec has fallen sharply, with one projection suggesting the governing party could fail to win a single seat. Three polls released with one week remaining in the campaign point to growing…
Goncalo Ramos coolly chipped the ball into the web after Norway goalkeeper Orjan Nyland handed it straight to him. Picture: AFP OSLO: Goncalo Ramos began instead of Cristiano Ronaldo and scored the winner as Portugal made it back-to-back victories to start out their UEFA Nations League title defence by beating Norway 2-1 in Oslo on…
Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, following Claude Opus 5.5. Anthropic positions it as a faster, lower-cost complement to Opus 5.5. It targets well-scoped everyday tasks, bug fixing, and polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets. Is it deployable? Yes, It is live on the Claude Platform…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war with Canada with outright bans on imports of certain Canadian goods. Trump’s previously announced bans — which affect some alcoholic drinks, dairy byproducts and motorcycles, among other goods — came into force at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday. Canada-U.S….
Troy Parrott made a coronary heart signal along with his palms after opening the scoring on 14 minutes. Picture: AFP HUNGARY: Eire beat Israel 3-0 in a Nations League conflict on Sunday amid an eerie and sombre ambiance that noticed the Irish gamers put on black armbands over the battle in Gaza. Eire’s gamers got…
It was the perfect of occasions, it was the worst of occasions … I’ll spare you the remaining, however the cliché Dickens line actually does sum up this yr’s New York Local weather Week. A lot of the local weather tech neighborhood — like the remainder of the U.S. economic system — is eagerly using the AI…
Descrease article font dimension Enhance article font dimension Metropolis officers and police in Guelph are reviewing a homecoming avenue social gathering that drew 1000’s of College of Guelph college students after the gathering descended into dysfunction, leaving a number of folks injured and prompting the deployment of the police tactical unit. Video from the off-campus…
The sturdy Czech Republic aspect knocked Nice Britain out within the quarter-finals. Picture: AFP SHENZHEN: Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova delivered a primary Billie Jean King Cup title since 2018 for the Czech Republic with victories over Ukraine within the last in Shenzhen on Sunday. The highest-10 duo made historical past for his or her…
Tesla is pushing again the reveal of its redesigned, second-generation Roadster as soon as once more, this time on account of a forecast of extreme climate. Initially slated for October 1 in Waco, Texas, the occasion is being pushed to October 15, Tesla mentioned. “We’ve been monitoring the climate carefully with native meteorologists, however given…
