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Apple’s second biggest acquisition ever is an AI company that listens to ‘silent speech’

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Apple’s biggest acquisition ever is still its $3 billion Beats buy in 2014, but now the second biggest deal is bringing in Q.ai, a four-year-old AI audio startup. Apple did not disclose the terms, but Financial Times reports that Apple is spending $2 billion on the company. It also mentioned Q.ai patents for optical sensor … Read more

Everything is gambling now: the latest news on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi

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Prediction markets will let you bet on just about anything, from how many tweets Elon Musk will post this week to the next president of the United States, with predictions sometimes showing shockingly (or suspiciously) spot-on accuracy. Polymarket’s CEO Shayne Copland has even claimed that prediction markets are “the most accurate thing we have as … Read more

GameNGen Turns a Classic Shooter Into a Neural Network

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Table of Links ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 INTERACTIVE WORLD SIMULATION 3 GAMENGEN 3.1 DATA COLLECTION VIA AGENT PLAY 3.2 TRAINING THE GENERATIVE DIFFUSION MODEL 4 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP 4.1 AGENT TRAINING 4.2 GENERATIVE MODEL TRAINING 5 RESULTS 5.1 SIMULATION QUALITY 5.2 ABLATIONS 6 RELATED WORK 7 DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND REFERENCES Summary We introduced GameNGen, and demonstrated … Read more

Spotify’s new group chats share music with everyone in your circle

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Spotify is expanding its in-app messaging feature with group chats. Now you can add up to 10 friends and family members to your discussion about your new favorite song, podcast, or audiobook, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The music streaming platform launched direct messaging last August, allowing you to share what you’re listening to without … Read more

Researchers Push Real-Time AI Game Simulation Beyond Traditional Engines

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Table of Links ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 INTERACTIVE WORLD SIMULATION 3 GAMENGEN 3.1 DATA COLLECTION VIA AGENT PLAY 3.2 TRAINING THE GENERATIVE DIFFUSION MODEL 4 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP 4.1 AGENT TRAINING 4.2 GENERATIVE MODEL TRAINING 5 RESULTS 5.1 SIMULATION QUALITY 5.2 ABLATIONS 6 RELATED WORK 7 DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND REFERENCES 6 RELATED WORK Interactive 3D Simulation … Read more