Continuing from last week’s post on the rise of the Voice Stack, there’s an area that today’s voice-based systems often struggle with: Voice Activity Detection (VAD) and the turn-taking paradigm of communication. When communicating with a text-based chatbot, the turns are clear:
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Suno: AI Text-to-Music Generator Creates Full Tracks Instantly
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Next was Suno which honestly might be my favorite so far. It's text-to-MUSIC! Not just speech, but actual songs with instruments, beats, everything. I typed "An afro-gospel fast-beat amapiano song by a Nigerian singing about the goodness of God" and it composed a whole track!
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AI Leadership in Xbox and the Future of Gaming
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Et surtout après avoir payé pour ne pas avoir de pubs et avoir quand même la pub de l'influenceur dans la vidéo.
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Personal FOMO and early Tesla access story
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Message aux dirigeants français : vous voulez plus de rentrées fiscales ? Baissez les impôts !
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Tech Shifts From Rationalism to Aesthetics as AI Evolves
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The tech world is abandoning rationalism for aesthetics. The 2010s were dominated by scientific metaphors: hypothesis, theory, feedback loops. Now that AI can handle squishy, intuitive, emotional thinking, we're moving to artistic metaphors: vibes, beauty, and taste.
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GPT45: 10h/day of use shows it’s not bad, just different
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I spent 10 hours a day on #ChatGPT #GPT45 since its release… And here's everything I learned → https://youtu.be/6-utufMkDFQ Many say this AI is bad. Well no, it just works differently and when used correctly, it's crazy!
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Mistral Launches New Free OCR Models
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BREAKING: Mistral AI has released new OCR models – mistral-ocr-2503 and mistral-ocr-latest. Mistral's OCR features are free to try on Le Chat. To test the API, visit La Plateforme.
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet released with extended thinking budget control
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We've also added support for our latest model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and the ability to control the extended thinking budget—right from the Workbench: https://
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World’s Best OCR Model Introduces Advanced Text Recognition
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Introducing the world's best OCR model!
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Beauty as Guiding Principle in Scientific Innovation and AI Research
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Of course, to some degree this was always the case. It just wasn’t a lens we talked about much. Some did though. Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies famously said: “Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I've done has had an aesthetic