Audible is using AI-powered synthetic voices and machine translation to expand audiobook availability, offering over 100 AI voices in multiple languages and planning to debut AI-translated books by 2025. The technology aims to unlock titles that would otherwise never get an audio version while maintaining quality through human oversight.
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Sakana AI’s Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) introduces neuron synchronization, a dynamic mechanism that mimics human brain activity, enabling AI to reason step-by-step with improved interpretability. This brain-inspired approach allows CTM to perform tasks like maze-solving and image analysis intuitively, hinting at a future of more capable and energy-efficient AI models.
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The Biden administration has scrapped plans to restrict international sales of US-made AI chips, delivering a major victory to Nvidiawhile simultaneously warning global buyers against using Huaweis competing Ascend processors. The abrupt policy reversal signals a shift toward deregulation in the high-stakes AI hardware race.
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The golden age of exponential leaps in AI reasoning may be nearing its peak, as new analysis suggests performance gains for models specializing in math and coding could plateau within a year. These systems are hitting scaling limits that even massive computing investments might not solve, with diminishing returns becoming evident.
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AlphaEvolve, Google’s AI-powered evolutionary coding agent, is revolutionizing algorithm design by optimizing data centers, chip layouts, and AI infrastructure while solving decades-old math problems. It has already recovered 0.7% of global compute resources and accelerated matrix multiplication in Gemini by 23%, showcasing its transformative potential.
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