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Chatbots built an "echo chamber of one" and now psychiatry has to decide if "AI psychosis" exists

Researchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should become a ...
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Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data

Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and ...
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OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months

OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly ...
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Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model

Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and ...
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Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening

Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in ...
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Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service

Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI's GLM-5.3. The startup markets the service for offensive ...