Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

Google announced on Thursday that “Live Translate,” its AI-powered Google Translate feature that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, is expanding to iOS and to more countries. With this expansion, the feature is now available on iOS and Android in the U.S., India, Mexico, Germany, Spain, France, Nigeria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bangladesh,…

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The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Anthropic’s head of economics, Peter McCrory, says is a “still healthy” labor market, early signs are pointing to uneven impacts, especially for younger workers just entering the workforce. …

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Google unveils TurboQuant, a lossless AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

Google unveils TurboQuant, a lossless AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what the internet thinks. The joke is a reference to the fictional startup Pied Piper that was the focus of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” TV series…

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