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BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when…
Australian national team footballer Christian Volpato licensed his AI likeness to company Callandor, which will monetize his digital image and voice. This reflects a growing trend among athletes to control their AI representations amid evolving…
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified…
⚖️ In Russia, they have begun to introduce AI into the judicial system - the technologies are already being tested in more than 20 regions. This was announced by the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov. Participants in the pilot project include Moscow, Moscow, Amur and Vologda regions. Neural networks are planning...
I found an open source project that combines 74 skills for developing games using Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine and other game engines. It covers graphics creation, character animation, performance optimization, publishing games on Steam and much more.…
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits, suggesting that baseline expertise is a prerequisite for turning…
Gemini Pro Argon for 1.5 years for the price of coffee? Gemini Pro for 18 months can be bought for $6 (480₽ instead of 30,000₽) — last 2 days of Jio promo! > 4.0 Argon top for vibecoders > Nano Banana 2 PRO (images) > Video generation (videos, clips, movies) > 5 TB cloud in Google One included…
🎬 Seedance 2.5 learns to generate 4K video — with realistic facial expressions and smooth movements. Introducing Seedance 2.5 4K — a new version of the AI model for video generation with improved detail, natural movements, and more expressive character facial expressions. One of…
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time. The model runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max but…
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
✔️ Block announces speech model. The company led by Twitter co‑founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey unveiled the conversational model Dessa, trained solely on human speech recordings, without text or base models. Block calls Dessa the world’s first AI conversationalist,…
🚀 Kimi K3.1 Pro breaks into the world's top 4 strongest AI models — and could become the leader among open-weight models. The new model from Moonshot AI scored 55 points in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, improving on the previous Kimi K3 by 11 points. Higher…
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
⚡️ Kimi K3.1 Pro approaches GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 — but costs significantly less. Chinese Moonshot AI unveiled a new version of its flagship model with a 1 million token context window. According to the company's internal tests, Kimi K3.1 Pro shows…
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Cost per task, however, can triple, driven mainly by the system prompt that gets resent with every…
📚 Russia plans to allocate 500 million rubles per year for AI and cybersecurity textbooks. The Russian Ministry of Education plans to annually direct 500 million rubles to provide students in grades 5–11 with textbooks on artificial intelligence and information security. In schools…
🤖 ElevenLabs introduced Chimera — a tool for creating realistic AI characters. It combines the Eleven4 voice model and the Seedance 2.5 video generator. What Chimera can do: — create a character from a photo or image; — animate facial expressions; — voice text with a natural-sounding voice.
The BBC series 'Blue Planet III' includes less polished, cloudy frames to prove its authenticity and counter AI‑generated content. Using cutting‑edge technology, including the first underwater CCTV camera, the series reveals astonishing behavior…
How to learn any topic with AI: from zero to results. You can watch 20 lectures and forget everything a week later. Or you can assemble an AI tutor: it will test your knowledge, explain the complex parts, and force you to apply them. Google has built such a loop into Gemini: test → lessons → assignments → review…
ElixirOffice — an open‑source office suite whose toolbar, menus, and dialog boxes are modeled after Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Even the keyboard shortcuts match. In Windows, all 228 Word keyboard shortcuts work as usual, so there’s no need to relearn…
Block introduced Dessa, an AI model trained on human conversations.
Paragon on air — wrapping up the day! Key highlights for the day🟠23.10 🟠Google Meet — call translation into 63 languages 🟠Anthropic — IPO in November 🟠Arc — browser to be closed on Dec 22 🟠Kimi K3.1 Pro — almost caught up with Opus in code 🟠Microsoft — correct diagnoses in 83% of cases 🟠Claude —…
Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce traditional U.S. governance. “It’s not a good…
Vecna Robotics makes its systems in the U.S. and is not directly affected by the FCC ruling. Credit: Eugene Demaitre In July, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, said it had determined that certain foreign-made advanced robots pose a cybersecurity and competitive risk…
At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and contributions, while exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming many aspects of teaching, research, and society. The symposium was…
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared…
The first Data Factory hub is set to become one of Europe’s largest physical AI training facilities for humanoid robots. | Source: Generative Bionics Generative Bionics this week announced plans to build a proprietary, multi-site “Physical AI Data Factory” in Italy. The company…
Chinese Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K3.1 Pro — an open AI model that beats GPT-6 Astra in programming tests. The model features a 1‑million‑token context window and is aimed at complex tasks such as software development, AI agents, 3D modeling, and financial...
Kimi K3.1 Pro officially unveiled. The team released the first model of the K3.1 family, and the results look promising. - A 3‑trillion‑parameter model with a 1‑million‑token context window. - Outperforms Astra and Fable 5.1 at a significantly lower cost. - Achieved…
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smartphone in history. On this episode of The Vergecast, David…
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exception to its promise about not using your Drive, Gmail, or…
✔️ US Banks Begin Blocking AI Agents According to Axios, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citi, and Wells Fargo faced a wave of incidents where autonomous agents performed operations in online banking on behalf of clients. Users voluntarily handed over…
Students from the Nazarbayev Intellectual School Shymkent‑Karatau developed Dombra Sense — a system for self‑guided learning to play the dombra. The device uses light and vibration cues, and a built‑in AI assistant helps turn musical materials into interactive…
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026,…
🤰 In China, a virtual singer announced her pregnancy and went on maternity leave. A member of the digital music group BABYQUEEN named Mity unexpectedly informed fans that she was expecting a child and was temporarily suspending performances. The most interesting thing is that Mity is completely virtual...
The new owners of the Daily Telegraph plan to transform the paper into a global AI‑driven media business, which will lead to significant job cuts, with up to 100 staff expected to lose their positions. The chief executive emphasized the need to transition to…
Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms…
Retro games are facing problems due to AI, which is affecting preservation communities.
Radical Numerics has announced the first clinical use of bacteriophages developed using artificial intelligence. An experimental therapy was used in a patient with a bacterial infection that was resistant to antibiotics. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect...
Freedom AI and Schneider Electric have signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation. The document is aimed at developing a long-term partnership in the field of creating modern data processing centers in Kazakhstan. The agreement provides for joint development...
Password management service 1Password introduced the 1Password for Agents platform, which allows AI agents to securely log into user accounts without directly transferring credentials to them. This solution radically changes the usual but unsafe approach...
🌀 AML against raccoon launderers or how financial crimes reached Steam On Steam you can find simulators of almost any profession: from a farmer and truck driver to a doctor and auto mechanic. Now the developers have gotten to financial crimes. On the author's blog...
In the work of any company, employees regularly have to refer to internal documents: look for instructions, clarify regulations and find answers to work questions. As your business grows, your knowledge base inevitably grows. At some point, find the right answer in this...
🤔️️️️ BioWare is being closed, Epic Games is switching to AI: what is happening to the gaming industry We have collected several news about how the video game development market is changing - from the closure of cult studios to experiments with artificial intelligence. ❕️️️️️️️EA closes BioWare after 31...
💔 The popular Arc browser is being closed - it will be replaced by an AI browser Dia The Browser Company announced the cessation of Arc, which once tried to rethink the familiar Internet browser. The closure will take place in several stages: - October 22 - registration of new...
IT workers face a crisis due to critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used by millions of websites. The urgent need to deploy patches creates immense pressure on specialists trying to manage client anxiety and...
Retro video games are everywhere lately - especially in places where they aren't supposed to be. Halo in a web browser, Wind Waker on the iPhone, Super Smash Bros. in mixed reality. Over the past month or so, these kinds of unexpected projects have gone viral with incredible…
How to make an AI mini-film for free: a complete guide A hero whose face does not change from frame to frame, his voice, the sound of rain and a twist in the ending - all this can now be collected without subscriptions. Today we’ll look at the whole path from idea to finished video: two evenings and 0 ₽. 🔤The idea: One hero, one...
🆕 Canva introduced its own AI model Craft Canva has released its first artificial intelligence model for image generation - Canva Craft. It was developed by the company’s own research team, and the main difference from other generators was the emphasis on design.…
From October 18 to October 24, 2026, as part of the Chery International User Summit 2026, LEPAS User Week was held for the first time in the Chinese city of Wuhu under the motto “Forward Together.” Among the participants was a delegation from Kazakhstan. Throughout the week, LEPAS provided guests with a live experience...
👨💻 If your notebook is just as slow, don’t rush to get rid of it! Kingston NV3 SSD is one of the fastest drives available. It turns a “turtle that barely works” into a “living, fast machine”⚡️: • increases loading speed; • increases…
The article examines AI's impact on employment, predicting significant job losses across various sectors. In response, the concept of a job guarantee is gaining traction as a remedy to mitigate the consequences of mass unemployment. This policy would ensure guaranteed…
Have you ever wondered why most robot vacuum cleaners are round? After all, the rooms in our houses are most often rectangular, and dust especially likes to accumulate in the corners. Have you ever wondered why most robot vacuum cleaners are round? After all, the rooms in our...
🎵 Spotify wants to become the main music service for AI agents The company is betting on a future in which users will control music not through an application, but using ChatGPT, Claude and other neural networks. According to Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström,...
Indian workers get paid to record their hands performing various tasks for training artificial intelligence. These video recordings are collected by companies such as Rashdan Technologies and Humyn Labs, which use them to develop physical AI capable of...
🚀 Elon Musk plans to merge Tesla and SpaceX - the potential value of the companies is $3.5 trillion Musk confirmed that he is considering the possibility of merging his two largest companies. According to him, the merger makes sense thanks to joint projects in the field of AI,...
🛒️️️️️️ Kazakhstan entered the top 35 largest e-commerce markets in the world. In 2025, online sales revenue in Kazakhstan reached $8.7 billion, according to ECDB. And the volume of retail electronic trade in goods, according to the Bureau of National Statistics, amounted to 3.77 trillion tenge - almost double...
Drone‑sport competitions are held in Kazakhstan at regional, oblast, and republican levels.
MIT explains how early ideas about randomness in AI influence its development.