Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round
Led by Naveen Rao, the former head of AI at Databricks, the new hardware startup is valued at $4.5 billion.
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OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?
Women ran an experiment to see if LinkedIn’s new algo was being sexist and thought they proved it. But there’s more complexity involved, experts say.
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Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem
A new NeurIPS 2025 paper shows how self-supervised learning imbues ViT with better image understanding than supervised learning The post Do Labels Make AI Blind? Self-Supervision Solves the Age-Old Binding Problem appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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OpenAI co-founds Agentic AI Foundation, donates AGENTS.md
OpenAI co-founds the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation and donates AGENTS.md to support open, interoperable standards for safe agentic AI.
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Google’s AI try-on feature for clothes now works with just a selfie
In the past, users had to upload a full-body picture of themselves to virtually try on a piece of clothing. Now, they can use a selfie and Nano Banana will generate a full body digital version of them.
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How to Increase Coding Iteration Speed
Learn how to become a more efficient programmer with local testing The post How to Increase Coding Iteration Speed appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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The Christmas Season as Gift
In her new book, The True Gifts of Christmas: Unwrapping the Meaning Behind Our Most Cherished Traditions, TV’s Megan Alexander shares the origin of her love for the Yuletide season and the meaning behind many of its most beloved traditions. Continue Reading…
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The BiG Africa Summit 2026 Ready to Make Its BiGGEST Impact Yet
We’re already feeling the excitement building across the continent as top industry leaders, innovators, and revolutionary partners prepare for the 12th Annual BiG Africa Summit 2026, taking place from 16 –19 February 2026 at The Grand Palm Hotel Casino Convention Resort in Gaborone, Botswana. The coming edition is set to redefine standards in its sector and reciprocate the experience among an assemblage that comprises tens of the region’s finest talents, and a few visionaries as well. With an […]
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Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE’s Handheld Face Recognition Program
Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That’s why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down the use of Mobile Fortify, release the agency’s privacy analyses of the app, and clarify the agency’s policy […]
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Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form speech output, aimed at agent style applications and live data narration. The model can start producing audible speech in about 300 ms, which is critical when a language model is still generating the rest of its answer. Where VibeVoice Realtime Fits in the VibeVoice Stack? VibeVoice is a broader framework that focuses on next token diffusion over continuous […]
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