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Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional

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Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional Nvidia mildly blew our minds in 2020 when its graphics cards gained the ability to delete practically all the background noise from our audio calls with a free app, and now the company’s doing it again. My colleague and Verge senior news editor Richard Lawler just fired up Nvidia’s just-announced “Studio Voice” feature on his

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Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office

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Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts — even detailed ones — isn’t protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office. The department issued this guidance in a broad report on policy issues regarding AI, focused on the copyrightability of various AI outputs. The document concludes that while…

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DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race

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DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race On today’s episode of Decoder, we’re talking about the only thing the AI industry — and pretty much the entire tech world — has been able to talk about for the last week: that is, of course, DeepSeek, and how the open-source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom

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Poshmark is introducing AI-generated product listings

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Poshmark is introducing AI-generated product listings Resale platform Poshmark is launching Smart List AI, an automated product listing tool for sellers, the company announced today. The tool has been in beta testing since last fall and uses sellers’ photos to generate details like the type of product, the size and brand, the style and color, and other details, as well as

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LPT: if you’re using TurboTax to file, double check the tax withholding. They’re now using AI and wildly inaccurate

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LPT: if you’re using TurboTax to file, double check the tax withholding. They’re now using AI and wildly inaccurate Fiancé passed away earlier this past year and was trying to do their taxes. After entering in all the info said the amount owed to IRS was over $2,000. At the time of passing he had made $17k at his job. After standard deduction, credits, etc. taxable income was around $3k. Reviewed the details, and it said the tax rate was 114.80% and powered …

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The Faraday Future FF91 Is Real And I Have Photographic Proof, I Swear This Isn’t AI

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The Faraday Future FF91 Is Real And I Have Photographic Proof, I Swear This Isn’t AI Many electric car startups have started up and then shut down over the past decade or so, some of which went under before producing even one car. Shockingly, Faraday Future, perhaps the most embattled and confusing startup of them all, is still kicking and has actually delivered a handful of its $309,000 FF91 luxury… Read more…

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Gemini AI can automatically turn your spreadsheets into charts

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Gemini AI can automatically turn your spreadsheets into charts Gemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in Sheets, Google announced in a post on the Workspace blog. Now, Gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. The new capability is rolling out

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Microsoft’s AI business is booming — Xbox, not so much

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Microsoft’s AI business is booming — Xbox, not so much Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well — and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 earnings, Microsoft announced revenue of $69.6 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent year-over-year, and net income of $24.1 billion, which is up 10 percent year-over-year. As for the AI business, CEO Satya

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Do you think AI can transform e-commerce?

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Do you think AI can transform e-commerce? Been reading and researching a bunch on ai and how it’s changing e-commerce. Have you implemented something, what’s the ground reality? some say AI can handle the end to end process of shopping from buying to making payments . submitted by /u/sushantpande1

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Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub

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Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub Microsoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI, is now part of a model catalog on Azure AI

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OpenAI Alleges DeepSeek Used Its Models for AI Training

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OpenAI Alleges DeepSeek Used Its Models for AI Training OpenAI says it has uncovered evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source model, potentially violating the company’s terms of service. The discovery centers around a technique called “distillation,” where developers use outputs from larger AI models to train smaller ones. The practice is…

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What are some of the most useful AI tools that business owners should know about?

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What are some of the most useful AI tools that business owners should know about? With hundreds of AI content tools flooding the market, finding the ones worth your time and money can feel impossible. I’ve cut through the noise and tested dozens of options to bring you my Top 10 AI tools that actually deliver results. No mediocre solutions, no overhyped features—just the tools that are genuinely transforming how successful bu…

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