If you’re a parent, you’ve probably grappled with the question of when your kid should get a smartphone. There’s a nationwide movement, Wait Until 8th, that argues that devices should be kept out of kids’ hands until they’re deep into middle school. Some families manage to hold out even longer. Andrew Przybylski, a professor of […]
Netflix has a pair of updates about its animated Tomb Raider show. The second season of Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will air on the streaming service on December 11. However, that second season will also be the final one for the project. Legendary Television is behind the show, which in October 2024 […]
Acknowledgements The research described here is a joint effort across Google Research, Google for Health, Google DeepMind, and partnering teams. The following researchers contributed to this work: Kevin McKee, Dan Gillick, Irina Jurenka, Markus Kunesch, Kaiz Alarakyia, Miriam Schneider, Jenn Sturgeon, Maggie Shiels, Amy Wang, Roma Ruparel, Anna Iurchenko, Mahvish Nagda, Julie Anne Séguin, Divya […]
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival closed-source systems such as OpenAI’s Whisper. Beyond just releasing model weights, AI2 has published training data identifiers, filtering steps, training recipes, and benchmark scripts—an unusually transparent move in the ASR space. This makes OLMoASR one […]
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash. “Today’s browsers weren’t built for work; they were built for browsing. This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s […]
