Feb 26, 2025

12 Posts

What I’ve Learned Building Voice Applications: Best practices for building apps based on AI’s evolving voice-in, voice-out stack
Feb 26, 2025

What I’ve Learned Building Voice Applications: Best practices for building apps based on AI’s evolving voice-in, voice-out stack

The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications.

3 min read
What I’ve Learned Building Voice Applications: Best practices for building apps based on AI’s evolving voice-in, voice-out stack
Feb 26, 2025

What I’ve Learned Building Voice Applications: Best practices for building apps based on AI’s evolving voice-in, voice-out stack

The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications.

3 min read
Meta Reads Minds, Big AI Spending Climbs, Deepfakes Appropriate Celeb Likenesses, Reasoning in Vectors
Feb 26, 2025

Meta Reads Minds, Big AI Spending Climbs, Deepfakes Appropriate Celeb Likenesses, Reasoning in Vectors

The Batch AI News and Insights: The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications.

14 min read
Meta Reads Minds, Big AI Spending Climbs, Deepfakes Appropriate Celeb Likenesses, Reasoning in Vectors
Feb 26, 2025

Meta Reads Minds, Big AI Spending Climbs, Deepfakes Appropriate Celeb Likenesses, Reasoning in Vectors

The Batch AI News and Insights: The Voice Stack is improving rapidly. Systems that interact with users via speaking and listening will drive many new applications.

14 min read
Reasoning in Vectors, Not Text: Meta introduces Chain of Continuous Thought (Coconut) to improve next-token prediction
Feb 26, 2025

Reasoning in Vectors, Not Text: Meta introduces Chain of Continuous Thought (Coconut) to improve next-token prediction

Although large language models can improve their performance by generating a chain of thought (CoT) — intermediate text tokens that break down the process of responding to a prompt into a series of steps.

3 min read
Reasoning in Vectors, Not Text: Meta introduces Chain of Continuous Thought (Coconut) to improve next-token prediction
Feb 26, 2025

Reasoning in Vectors, Not Text: Meta introduces Chain of Continuous Thought (Coconut) to improve next-token prediction

Although large language models can improve their performance by generating a chain of thought (CoT) — intermediate text tokens that break down the process of responding to a prompt into a series of steps.

3 min read
Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate
Feb 26, 2025

Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate

A viral deepfake video showed media superstars who appeared to support a cause — but it was made without their participation or permission.

2 min read
Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate
Feb 26, 2025

Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate

A viral deepfake video showed media superstars who appeared to support a cause — but it was made without their participation or permission.

2 min read
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
Feb 26, 2025

Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase cloud spending to meet growing infrastructure demands

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.

3 min read
Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase capital spending to meet growing infrastructure demands
Feb 26, 2025

Big AI Spending Continues to Rise: Tech giants increase capital spending to meet growing infrastructure demands

Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.

3 min read
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
Feb 26, 2025

Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

3 min read
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
Feb 26, 2025

Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

3 min read

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