Meta’s new AI model can translate speech from more than 100 languages

“Meta has done a great job having a breadth of different things they support, like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, even automatic speech ...
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What’s next for nuclear power

Much of the funding and industrial activity in advanced reactors is centered in the US, where several companies are close ...
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Training robots in the AI-powered industrial metaverse

For example, Siemens’ SIMATIC Robot Pick AI expands on this vision of adaptability, transforming standard industrial robots—once limited to rigid, ...
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Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media

This article first appeared in The Debrief, MIT Technology Review’s weekly newsletter from our editor in chief Mat Honan. To receive it ...
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inside the strange limbo facing millions of IVF embryos

Even people who want to use their embryos may “age out” of using them. Dalla Costa gives the example of ...
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Anthropic’s chief scientist on 5 ways agents will be even better in 2025

2/ Agents will understand context “Claude needs to learn enough about your particular situation and the constraints that you ...
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The Download: Escalating pandemic risks, and ask us anything on Reddit

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Meta’s new speech policies allow the ...
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A New York legislator wants to pick up the pieces of the dead California AI bill

The bill would cover only models that pass a certain threshold for how many computations their training required, typically measured ...
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The Download: Greener steel, and what 2025 holds for climate tech

As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a ...
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