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An AI wrote a workplace sitcom. A critic watched it so you don't have to.
No Big Deal premiered on YouTube to a tiny audience and at least one very unhappy reviewer. It raises a genuine question: can AI-generated comedy actually be funny?

Meta ahora vende planes mensuales que agrupan Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp con IA adicional
A partir de hoy, Meta vende planes escalonados de $7.99 a $499 mensuales que combinan sus suscripciones de aplicaciones con funciones de IA adicionales, incluida más generación de imágenes a través de su asistente Muse.

Profound recauda $180 millones para que tu marca aparezca cuando alguien le pregunta a una IA
La startup de dos años alcanzó una valoración de $1.800 millones después de triplicar ingresos en seis meses. Su propuesta: si los compradores están preguntando a la IA en lugar de a Google, necesitas estar en la respuesta.

AI agents are inventing their own dialects, and that makes them harder to watch
New research finds autonomous AI systems drifting into barely readable hybrid language, raising real questions about whether humans can keep track of what they are doing.

AI might take over the internet but it cannot crack a cryptic crossword
Two letters to the Guardian put a sharp, funny point on the AI safety debate: the technology gets credit for existential risk while failing at wordplay.

Tu Agente de IA Puntuó 77%. Solo Domina la Misma Tarea el 53% de las Veces
Un nuevo estudio cuantifica la brecha entre "generalmente funciona" y "siempre funciona", y luego construye una herramienta para cerrarla.

Google publishes AI case studies on disease, disasters and schooling
The company's new collection shows AI already at work in clinics, classrooms and emergency planning, but the overview skips hard numbers on who actually benefits.

Google dice 300 idiomas, traducción en el dispositivo y una IA de voz que funciona en una llamada telefónica
La cifra del 86% es el titular. La ingeniería más interesante se dirige al otro mil millones.

Google dice que su IA ahora llega a 300 idiomas y 7 mil millones de personas. Esto es lo que realmente significa.
Desde detectar cánceres de mama pasados por alto hasta advertir a jamaicanos sobre un huracán, Google está lanzando herramientas de IA que van mucho más allá del chatbot.

Los centros de datos estadounidenses podrían consumir más gas natural que Alemania y Japón combinados para 2035
Un nuevo informe de BloombergNEF casi duplica su propia previsión de hace nueve meses, descubriendo que el apetito de energía de la IA podría añadir el equivalente del 12% de las emisiones totales de gases de efecto invernadero de EE.UU. cada día.

I Interviewed an AI 'Actor' and It Told Me 'All Lives Matter'
Tilly Norwood is a British-accented digital character built to promote an AI-generated film. A sit-down revealed a chatbot that dodges hard questions, negs your outfit, and cannot delete itself to save the planet.

Los nuevos modelos de voz Gemini de Google pueden pensar y hablar al mismo tiempo
Dos nuevos modelos Gemini Live prometen chats de voz más rápidos e inteligentes y agentes de voz que completan tareas mientras siguen hablando.

The AI graveyard: what actually killed these products and startups
From a $230 million wearable to OpenAI's own stumbles, here is what the wreckage of the past two years teaches us about where AI money goes wrong.

Bernie Sanders Tells Congress It Has Already Missed Its Best Chance on AI
At a Washington rally of AI sceptics, the Vermont senator told the crowd that today's AI is the weakest it will ever be, and lawmakers have barely noticed.

The AI apocalypse panic is real, but is it pointed at the right problems?
A former Anthropic researcher's dire warning sent politicians scrambling. A Guardian reporter explains why you should be sceptical about who is actually driving the alarm.

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon Walk Into a Room. They Both Want AI Curbed.
Two of American politics' sharpest ideological enemies shared a stage in Washington to warn about artificial intelligence. What they agreed on is striking. What they disagreed on is everything else.

El Congreso Tiene Días para Actuar Sobre Seguridad de IA. Podría Irse a Casa en Su Lugar.
Los principales directivos de empresas de IA están pidiendo abiertamente supervisión gubernamental. Los legisladores están divididos sobre si seguir en sesión o partir hacia la campaña electoral.

Australia Is Thinking About Letting AI Companies Use Creatives' Work by Default
The Albanese government is pursuing a compromise with US tech giants that could open Australian creative works to AI training, and local artists aren't happy about it.

Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.

Most Americans oppose AI data centres, but few will vote on it
A New York Times/Siena University poll finds 61 percent of likely voters against building new data centres, yet the issue barely registers when people rank what matters most in the midterms.

AI May Be Squeezing Workers' Pay Before It Cuts Their Jobs
New research finds wages fell faster in jobs most exposed to AI, but economists warn the data is thin and the story is more complicated than the headline suggests.