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AI Week: Apple’s Gap, Music Startups, Emotional Intelligence
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Top stories in AI today: – AI letdown expected at Apple’s WWDC
– Record giants, music AI startups eye deals
– Transform deep research into visual infographics
– AI beats humans in emotional intelligence
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
therundown.ai/p/apples-ai-ga
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EU Commission Strategy to Boost European Startups and Scaleups
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Commission launches ambitious Strategy to make Europe a startup and scaleup powerhouse https://
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Hume Launches EVI 3 AI with Advanced Voice Interaction Capabilities
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Hume launched EVI 3, a new AI that can speak in any voice or personality via speech-to-speech interaction
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 2 juin 2025
It uses a voice-to-voice architecture and comes with a deeper understanding of tune, rhythm, timbre, and speaking stylepic.twitter.com/coHJKLV5TVHume launched EVI 3, a new AI that can speak in any voice or personality via speech-to-speech interaction It uses a voice-to-voice architecture and comes with a deeper understanding of tune, rhythm, timbre, and speaking style
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AI Reduces Big Tech and Startup Hiring of New Graduates
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L’IA pique les jobs tech, et les jeunes diplômés trinquent En 2024, les grandes boîtes tech ont embauché 25 % de jeunes diplômés en moins qu’en 2023. Les startups ont aussi réduit la voilure : –11 %. Par contre, elles misent davantage sur des profils expérimentés. Logique :
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Who Builds AI Infrastructure Above Frontier Models?
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So: who is building all of that? Clearly every company is not going to do it themselves on top of a frontier model on the backend, right?
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SolveIt: AI System Beta Testing Results After Six Months
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I mainly use solveit, which is a system we built and have had 1000 beta testers using it for ~6 months.
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Building a Robotics Company: Focus on Why, Not Just How
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My biggest takeaway from #icra2025 was just how many students want to found a robotics company. But building a company is much more than building a robot. Instead of focusing on the HOW of robots, I encouraged people to think about the WHY. What problem do you solve, and for who? IEEE ICRA (@ieee_ras_icra) ✨Join us at #ICRA2025 to hear from plenary speaker, Tessa Lau (@tessalau), CEO & Co-Founder, Dusty Robotics! She will present the talk, "So you want to build a robot company?" 📆 Wednesday, May 21 | 1:45-2:45 PM 🔗 Read the full abstract here: loom.ly/N-F285Q — https://nitter.net/ieee_ras_icra/status/1923370693300830630#m
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Modular Memory: OpenAI Adoption Risk and Competitive Differentiation
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OpenAI is unlikely to make a first move here in making memory modular, but plenty of incentives for others to lead this approach (eg to differentiate from OpenAI’s closed approach), and if successful can get OpenAI etc to adopt (kind of like MCP). IMPO
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Axelera AI Project Challenge: Edge AI Hackathon with €1,500 Kit
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Last chance! Submissions for the Axelera AI Project Challenge #hackathon close SOON. If you’re building AI that sees and acts—get your idea in. You could get a full €1,500 edge AI kit to bring it to life. https://
eu1.hubs.ly/H0kBz9f0 #EdgeAI #Makers #AIChallenge #IoT