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March 5, 2025

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Reddit – Dive into anything

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March 5, 2025

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7 Tesla Charging Stations Torched Near Boston

Seven Tesla charging stations were intentionally set on fire on Monday at a shopping center outside Boston, the police said, the latest in a series of attacks against the electric vehicle company since its owner, Elon Musk, built a deep partnership with President Trump. The charging stations were set on fire around 1:10 a.m. at a shopping center in Littleton, Mass., about 30 miles outside of Boston, according to a news release from the Littleton Police Department. The police said they told the Littleton Electric Light & Water Department to shut down the power to the charging stations as “heavy,

March 5, 2025

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Hellblade 2 gets most nominations

Tom Richardson BBC Newsbeat Ninja Theory Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has been praised for its depiction of the main character’s psychosis Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II has picked up the most nominations at this year’s Bafta Games Awards. The action-adventure game, developed by Cambridge-based studio Ninja Theory, is up for awards in 11 out of 14 categories at the annual ceremony. It’s in the running for best game alongside 3D platformer Astro Bot – up for eight awards – which clinched top prize at the US-based Game Awards in December. The event, considered one of the most prestigious in the games

March 5, 2025

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Dubformer Raises $3.6M to Revolutionize AI Dubbing with Emotion Transfer Technology

AI dubbing startup Dubformer has secured a $3.6 million seed funding round to redefine how emotional depth is captured in media localization. The investment, led by Almaz Capital with participation from s16vc and FinSight, as well as angel investors including Arul Menezes, founder of Microsoft Translator, and Funa Maduka, former head of International Original Film at Netflix, will fuel the company’s mission to make dubbed content more immersive and engaging for audiences worldwide. Solving AI Dubbing’s Biggest Challenge Despite significant advancements in AI dubbing, most solutions still struggle to convey authentic emotion in voiceovers. Research shows that audiences can easily distinguish

March 5, 2025

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If You are Doing RAG You Need to Know Hypothetical Document Embeddings

Created Using MidJourney An introduction to hypothetical document embeddings(HyDE) as a cornerstone of RAG. The original HyDE paper. Continuing with our series about RAG, today we are going to explore a technique that is often lost in broader RAG implementations but its quite effective. Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE) represents a paradigm shift in the realm of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), introducing a novel approach to bridging the semantic gap between queries and document corpora. At its core, HyDE leverages the generative capabilities of LLMs to synthesize a hypothetical ideal document that would perfectly answer a given query, prior to initiating the

March 5, 2025

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Telekom, Perplexity debut ‘AI Phone’

PLUS: Anthropic’s massive $61.5B valuation Good morning, AI enthusiasts. The smartphone revolution is entering its next phase — and T-Mobile’s parent company is leading the charge. With a new (Perplexity-powered!) phone that puts AI front and center, is this the mainstream device that could finally challenge the mobile status quo? Telekom’s Perplexity-powered ‘AI Phone’ Anthropic’s $3.5B raise at $61.5B valuation Speeding up research processes with AI Microsoft’s new healthcare AI assistant 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities DEUTSCHE TELEKOM & PERPLEXITY Image source: Deutsche Telekom The Rundown: T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, just announced the development of an

March 5, 2025

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Weekly Top Picks #100 – by Alberto Romero

No weekly top picks today—this column just hit 100 weeks, which calls for something different. Instead, we’re doing an Ask Me Anything (AMA). It’s been a while since the last one, so I’m sure you have plenty of questions. And as the name suggests, you can ask literally anything. But since infinite possibilities tend to paralyze rather than inspire, here are some ideas to get you started (not that I want to be asked these, of course…): An AI take I’ve changed my mind about in the past year The hardest part of running a tri-weekly newsletter for nearly three

March 5, 2025

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Last Week in AI #301

Anthropic has launched a new AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which is designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want. This hybrid AI reasoning model can provide both real-time answers and more considered responses, with users able to activate the model’s reasoning abilities. The model is part of Anthropic’s efforts to simplify the user experience around its AI products, and will be available to all users and developers, with premium Claude chatbot plan users having access to the model’s reasoning features. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is more expensive than other models, but it is also a hybrid model,

March 5, 2025

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Best Practices for Building the AI Development Platform in Government 

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor  The AI stack defined by Carnegie Mellon University is fundamental to the approach being taken by the US Army for its AI development platform efforts, according to Isaac Faber, Chief Data Scientist at the US Army AI Integration Center, speaking at the AI World Government event held in-person and virtually from Alexandria, Va., last week.   Isaac Faber, Chief Data Scientist, US Army AI Integration Center “If we want to move the Army from legacy systems through digital modernization, one of the biggest issues I have found is the difficulty in abstracting away the differences in

March 5, 2025

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TSMC diversifies from Taiwan with record US investment in chip production

Summary Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s leading contract chipmaker, has announced a massive expansion of its US operations. According to a company press release, TSMC will invest an additional $100 billion in American semiconductor production on top of the $65 billion already committed, bringing the total investment to $165 billion – the largest foreign direct investment in US history. The new investment will fund the construction of three production facilities, two advanced packaging plants, and a research and development center. TSMC expects to create approximately 40,000 construction jobs over the next four years, with tens of thousands of