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Maxton Hall. | Image: Prime Video Amazon's Prime Video is launching a new AI-powered feature that lines up an actor's mouth with "human-dubbed" audio. The feature is only available with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall for now, but Prime Video plans to expand it to "additional titles" in the future. In its announcement, Prime Video says it uses a combination of AI and visual effects technologies to make lip movements match up with translated speech. Meta and YouTube recently launched an AI-powered auto-dubbing feature for creators, while allowing them to turn on a "lip sync" o...

OpenAI advances mathematical reasoning; Meta launches Muse personal agent with practical deployment implications.

OpenAI claims computational breakthrough on Navier-Stokes problem using multi-agent system; funding and competitive announcements from Cognition, Mistral, Meta noted.

Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company's ailing position in the AI race and help it catch up to rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Muse is a "personal AI agent" designed to help out with everyday tasks and projects, like online shopping, sending emails, and planning a trip. Once given a goal, Meta says Muse can work on its own, opening a browser, filling out...

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still trust Meta with their data.

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

MetaRSI proposes extending recursive self-improvement beyond formal verification to open-ended scientific domains, arguing current RSI validation is limited to coding and checkable benchmarks.

Inter-Instance GAN for synthesizing labeled wireless signals with position metadata, reducing real-world measurement and labeling costs.

Instagram's visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an "AI Content" label to images that they didn't create or edit using generative AI tools. Meanwhile, actual AI imagery is slipping through the cracks, leaving the impression that nothing can be trusted on Instagram at all. The precise causes of this tagging seem to vary. Many people said the label appeared on images that were edited using t...

Most AI tools allow you to opt-out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, it is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% […]

Metatheorem proves every finite syntactic system has theorems it cannot autonomously produce, with implications for AI security.

an epic comeback story for Meta

VMetaphor-Bench: first benchmark for visual metaphor generation in text-to-image models; 1,500 curated samples across three levels and ten categories.

Training-free reranker for composed image retrieval using metadata-based concept alignment and filtering.

Celeb Twins Test Set (CTTS) benchmark for monozygotic twin face verification with metadata for distinguishing marks and asymmetry.

Modelpedia: automated LLM-assisted framework extracting and aggregating AI model findings from papers into searchable catalog, linking findings to models, datasets, methods.

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every major tech issue there is. For example, Meta just reached a settlement with dozens of states, including New York, which will restrict how teens use platforms like Instagram in very specific ways. Governor Hochul is a strong supporter of those restrictions and more, as you’ll hear. But those come with a cost — widespread age verification me...

AdaPath retrieves query-adaptive meta-paths from biomedical knowledge graphs to enable multi-hop reasoning for LLM QA.

Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.

Meta settlement highlights structural challenges in content regulation frameworks for large tech platforms.

Lot Machine: multimodal pipeline to extract structured metadata from historical German auction catalogs for provenance research.

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

SCAN framework for AI task allocation in medical training addresses over-reliance via real-time metacognitive task classification.

Shallow Recurrent Decoder for state estimation in tokamak liquid metal blankets via reduced-order modeling.

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

MetaSieve optimizes relational deep learning by using SQL to select metapaths and reduce GNN subgraph sampling costs on multi-table databases.

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.