Apple says AirPods Pro 2 will receive a software feature “soon” that will turn the wireless earbuds into “clinical-grade” hearing aids. “This includes a hearing protection mode being enabled by default, offering passive noise cancellation in loud environments,” adds 9to5Mac. From the report: Firstly, users can take a clinically-validated hearing Read more…
Amazon’s Audible will begin inviting a select group of US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, the clones of which can then be used to make audiobook recordings. The effort, which kicks off next week, is designed to add more audiobooks to the service, quickly and cheaply — Read more…
“The Impact of AI on Computer Science Education” recounts an experiment Eric Klopfer conducted in his undergrad CS class at MIT. He divided the class into three groups and gave them a programming task to solve in the Fortran language, which none of them knew. Reminiscent of how The Three Read more…
OpenAI executives are considering premium subscriptions for advanced language models, including the reasoning-focused Strawberry and flagship Orion, with potential monthly prices ranging up to $2,000, The Information reported Thursday, citing a source. The move reflects growing concerns about covering operational costs for ChatGPT, which currently generates approximately $2 billion annually Read more…
The online news site San Francisco Standard profiles an open-source platform “that takes advantage of large language models to help users generate health insurance appeals with AI… A Fight Health Insurance user can scan their insurance denial, and the system will craft several appeal letters to choose from and modify. Read more…
Longtime Slashdot reader mmell writes: Regular Slashdot users will certainly be aware of the saga unfolding between the country of Brazil and X. Reuters has already reported that what I have to relay here will come as no surprise to Elon Musk, but reporting on CNN confirms that Brazilian Justice Read more…
Scientists have finally detected and measured the ambipolar field, a weak electric field surrounding Earth that was first theorized over 60 years ago. “Any planet with an atmosphere should have an ambipolar field,” says astronomer Glyn Collinson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “Now that we’ve finally measured it, we Read more…