Author: Zach_Wilson
YouTube’s AI-powered dubbing is now available to many more creators
YouTube says it has expanded its AI-powered auto-dubbing to “hundreds of thousands of channels” in the YouTube Partner Program that are “focused on knowledge and information.” YouTube says it will bring the feature to “other types of content soon.” What the dubs consist of depends on the language used in…
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General Motors Cuts Funding to Cruise, Nixing Its Robotaxi Plan
The automaker has sunk billions into making a self-driving car service work. Now it says it will focus on “personal” autonomous vehicles instead. Source
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Claude AI and other systems could be vulnerable to worrying command prompt injection attacks
Security researchers tricked Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use to download and run malware They say that other AI tools could be tricked with prompt injection, too GenAI can be tricked to write, compile, and run malware, as well In mid-October 2024, Anthropic released Claude Computer Use, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model…
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YouTube Kids is getting a redesign to make it look more like YouTube
The YouTube Kids mobile app is getting a redesign that both makes it look and behave more like the standard YouTube app and lets kids browse through videos in portrait mode for the first time. It’s rolling out over the next few weeks on iOS and Android, while the web…
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Google’s future data centers will be built next to solar and wind farms
In what it’s calling a “first-of-its-kind partnership,” Google will collaborate with developers to build data centers powered by renewable energy generated on-site. It’s partnering with energy company Intersect Power and investment firm TPG Rise Climate on a $20 billion initiative to develop an unspecified number of “industrial parks” across the…
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Microsoft is giving Copilot a new taskbar UI and keyboard shortcut on Windows
Microsoft is changing up how Copilot works on Windows yet again. After demoting Copilot to a Progressive Web App (PWA) earlier this year, Microsoft is now rolling out an update to Windows testers that replaces the PWA version of Copilot with a “native” experience that includes a new keyboard shortcut…
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