Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are finally having their ‘foundation model’ moment. Zyphra, a research lab focused on large-scale models, recently released ZUNA, a 380M-parameter foundation model specifically for EEG signals. ZUNA is a masked diffusion auto-encoder designed to perform channel ...

On a bright morning last April, a surveillance plane operated by the Colombian military spotted a 40-foot-long shark-like silhouette idling in the ocean just off Tayrona National Park. It was, unmistakably, a “narco sub,” a stealthy fiberglass vessel that sails with its hull almost entirely ...

The United States and the European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities. They have burned a wildly disproportionate share of the world’s oil and gas, planting carbon time bombs that will detonate first in the poorest, hottest parts of the globe.  Meanwhile, places ...

Data Analyst is one job title that has quietly dominated LinkedIn headlines, hiring portals, and coffee-table conversations over the past few years. Disagree? Then you are certainly unaware of what all the industry giants are saying. Be it consulting firms like McKinsey and PwC, or global ...

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 ...

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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 ...