(Image credit: Netflix) Netflix’s American Murder: Gabby Petito has upset some people for using an AI-generated voice to narrate Petito’s journal entries. Despite permission from Petito’s family, critics argue the AI voice raises ethical concerns. This isn’t the first occurrence of such debate, and it will likely keep happening asContinue Reading
Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December. According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of video, which adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour. Google DeepMind researcher JonContinue Reading
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Plus: The US’s AI Safety Institute is being gutted. This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Ever since World War II, the US has been the globalContinue Reading
The researchers’ explanations about how “Set-of-Mark” and “Trace-of-Mark” work. Credit: Microsoft Research The Magma model introduces two technical components: Set-of-Mark, which identifies objects that can be manipulated in an environment by assigning numeric labels to interactive elements, such as clickable buttons in a UI or graspable objects in a roboticContinue Reading
By Kimeko McCoy • February 19, 2025 • This article is part of our Confessions series, in which we trade anonymity for candor to get an unvarnished look at the people, processes and problems inside the industry. More from the series → It’s been a month since President Trump signedContinue Reading
Not every creator will end up with a media empire like Mr. Beast’s and score a lucrative streaming deal — but maybe they don’t have to go that route. Thanks to a variety of revenue streams, be it a product line or brand sponsorships, creators can supplement the ad revenueContinue Reading
Getting oxygen from regolith takes 24 kWh per kilogram, and we’d need tonnes. Without adjustments for relativity, clocks here and on the Moon would rapidly diverge. Credit: NASA If humanity is ever to spread out into the Solar System, we’re going to need to find a way to put fuelContinue Reading
That mission, and the 2020 Chang’e-5 robotic mission before it, are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s. Together they are building on what scientists learned from Apollo-era missions, helping to unravel mysteries about how the Moon was formed and why it looks the way itContinue Reading
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