Google DeepMind is pushing the boundaries of generative AI again. This time, the focus is not on text or images. It is on music. The Google team recently introduced Lyria 3, their most advanced music generation model to date. Lyria 3 represents a significant shift in how machines handle complex ...

The ‘uncanny valley’ is the final frontier for generative video. We have seen AI avatars that can talk, but they often lack the soul of human interaction. They suffer from stiff movements and a lack of emotional context. Tavus aims to fix this with the launch of Phoenix-4, a new generative AI model ...

For creators, there are limited ways to earn income directly from followers. The most popular monetization methods today are brand deals and platform payouts, which are…

Google DeepMind is calling for the moral behavior of large language models—such as what they do when called on to act as companions, therapists, medical advisors, and so on—to be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math. As LLMs improve, people are asking them to ...

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. Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen, an Australian man in his mid-30s, with a rural Catholic upbringing, is a ...

Just two weeks after the launch of the frontier-grade Claude Opus 4.6, Anthropic has dropped its latest powerhouse: Claude Sonnet 4.6. But don’t let the Sonnet label fool you. Sonnet 4.6 is being hailed as the “Better-Opus” by developers in early access. For the first time, we are seeing a ...

Google is moving beyond the rectangular screen. For over 10 years, Google designers have explored how to build interfaces for transparent displays. The result is Jetpack Compose Glimmer, a design system built specifically for display AI glasses. For devs and data scientists, this is a shift from ...

Cohere AI Labs has released Tiny Aya, a family of small language models (SLMs) that redefines multilingual performance. While many models scale by increasing parameters, Tiny Aya uses a 3.35B-parameter architecture to deliver state-of-the-art translation and generation across 70 languages. The ...

“We’re out of airspace now. We can do whatever we want,” Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen tells me from the pilot’s seat of his Aston Martin helicopter. As we fly over suburbs outside Melbourne, Australia, it’s becoming clear that doing whatever he wants is Thorbjornsen’s MO.  Upper-middle-class homes give ...

To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying to see the future, whether through the lens of past experience or the logic of cause and effect, has helped us hunt, avoid being hunted, plant crops, forge social bonds, and in general survive in a world that ...

Researchers today can draft entire papers with AI assistance, run experiments faster than ever, and summarise literature in minutes. Yet one stubborn bottleneck remains: creating clear, publication-ready diagrams. Poor diagrams look unprofessional and can obscure ideas and weaken a paper’s impact. ...

No-code platforms are quietly changing who gets to build software. You no longer need to be an engineer to create apps, automate workflows, or launch products. The barrier isn’t technical skill anymore. It’s knowing where to start. This article brings together some of the best no-code platforms ...