Feb 26, 2025

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Diagram comparing direct audio generation with a foundation model vs. a voice pipeline using STT, LLM, and TTS.
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.
Diagram comparing direct audio generation with a foundation model vs. a voice pipeline using STT, LLM, and TTS.
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.
Diagram of Coconut, a method training LLMs to process thought chains as vectors, comparing it to Chain-of-Thought (CoT).
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.
“Enough Is Enough” in black on white, with a heart, from an AI-generated video protesting Kanye West’s antisemitism.
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.
Bar chart of 2024 vs. 2025 capital expenditures for Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta, showing projected increases.
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.
A participant types while an MEG scan decodes brain activity into text in real-time, showing typed vs. decoded text.
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.

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