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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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The Download: What’s next for AI, and stem-cell therapies

The Download: What’s next for AI, and stem-cell therapies
For the last couple of years we’ve had a go at predicting what’s coming next in AI. A fool’s game ...
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