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Despite limitations, "MarioVGG" makers think AI video could one day replace game engines.

NotebookLM's "Audio Summaries" show a more personable future for AI-generated content.

New paper counts “excess words” that started appearing more often in the post-LLM era.

Opinion: "Help my daughter write a letter" is not the same as "Help me with boring busywork."

Data centers are becoming a bottleneck for AI development.

Suddenly, everyone can master their own music.

The Braun+Design Börse is an annual event and fair focusing on Braun products. Braun might not be the design icon it was 40 years ago, but starting in 1955, it profoundly impacted the design world, starting with its cooperation with the Ulm School of Design. With Dieter Rams as the Head of the Design group, Braun became a Design Icon. Nowadays, Braun is again in the spotlight with their Head of Design, Oliver Grabes. Over the decades, many legendary products have been created. Most of them insp

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Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has apologized for massive cheating on certification tests for seven vehicle models. The fraudulent testing at Japan’s top automaker involved the use of inadequate or outdated data in collision tests and incorrect testing of airbag inflation and rear-seat damage in crashes. Engine tests were also found to be falsified. Toyota stopped production Monday of the three models made in Japan. The deceptive tests don't affect the safety of the vehicles already on roads. Two other Japanese automakers Mazda and and Honda also reported Monday improper testing of their vehicles but said they are safe to use.

It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history. Experts say it could accomplish something that parents, schools and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success — keeping kids off social media until they turn 16. Australia’s new law was approved by its Parliament last week. It's an attempt to swim against many tides of modern life — formidable forces like technology, marketing, globalization and, of course, the iron will of a teenager. The ban won’t go into effect for another year. But how will Australia be able to enforce it? That’s not clear, nor will it be easy.

Pepsi has a new challenge: Keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting. PepsiCo announced in April that it would accelerate a planned shift to natural colors in its foods and beverages. Right now, around 40% of the company’s products contain synthetic dyes. Some products like Tostitos and Lay's chips will stop using synthetic dyes later this year. But the company says it can take two or three years to identify natural sources, test them and bring them to market. PepsiCo hasn’t committed to meeting the Trump administration’s goal of phasing out synthetic dyes by the end of 2026.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a "code red" alert to employees to improve ChatGPT, according to The Wall Street Journal. Altman sent an internal memo to staff Monday, saying more work is needed to enhance the chatbot's speed, reliability, and personalization features. This week marks three years since OpenAI first released ChatGPT, sparking global interest in generative AI technology. But the company faces increased competition from rivals, including Google, which last month released Gemini 3, the latest version of its AI assistant. OpenAI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

A decade-long slide in high school students’ performance in reading and math persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years. That's according to results released Tuesday from an exam known as the nation’s report card. Eighth-grade students also lost significant ground in science skills, according to the results from the National Assessment of Education Progress. The assessments were the first since the pandemic for eighth graders in science and 12th graders in reading and math. They reflect a downward drift across grade levels and subject areas in previous releases from NAEP.

European Union regulators have accused Microsoft of “possibly abusive” practices that violate the bloc’s antitrust rules by tying its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app to its widely used business software. The European Commission said it’s concerned the U.S. tech giant has been “restricting competition” by bundling Teams with its core office productivity applications such as Office 365 and Microsoft 365. The commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer, said it suspects Microsoft might have granted Teams a “distribution advantage.” Microsoft has since stopped packaging teams with Office in Europe but the commission said it's not enough. Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company will work to find solutions to address the Commission‘s remaining concerns.”

The FBI says Americans were duped out of more than $5.6 billion last year through fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency. The report released Monday shows a 45 percent jump in losses from 2022. The FBI received nearly 70,000 complaints in 2023 by victims of fraud involving bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies, according to the report. The most common scam was investment fraud, which accounted for more than $3.9 billion of the losses. FBI officials say Americans of all ages can be a target of such scams, and should be extremely cautious when presented with investment opportunities from people they’ve never met in real life.

Corn sweat is the process by which corn plants release moisture into the air to stay cool, and it brings the Midwest a surge in humidity every summer. Now, climate change and evolving agriculture are making the phenomenon even stickier. More corn is being planted more densely partly due to the drive for corn-based ethanol. And warmer temperatures are driving corn to sweat more as they work harder to cool off. It all adds up to more of the steamy misery seen across the United States in recent days.

The university that boasts the world’s largest 3D printer developed one even bigger. A printer unveiled Tuesday at the University of Maine is four times larger than the current one and is capable of printing ever mightier objects. That includes scaling up its bio-based 3D-printed home technology to eventually demonstrate how printed neighborhoods can offer affordable housing. The thermoplastic polymer printer was dubbed the “Factory of the Future 1.0.” It can print objects 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high. And it has a voracious appetite, consuming as much as 500 pounds of raw material per hour.

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. Whisper was created by OpenAI. It's being used in many industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos. OpenAI has promoted Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy." But more than a dozen computer scientists and software developers tell The Associated Press that isn’t always the case and that it's prone to making up chunks of text and even entire sentences. An OpenAI spokesperson says the company studies how to reduce that and updates its models incorporating feedback received.

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