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AI Capex Has Moved Into Credit's Jurisdiction

There are two honest ways to talk about the AI infrastructure boom. One starts with demand. Model usage is rising, enterprise budgets are moving from pilots to deployment, and cheaper inference can…

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Sub‑50 ms On‑Device TTS: Instant Voice for Games & Streams

Ultra‑Low‑Latency TTS: How to Generate Voice in < 50 ms on‑device Introduction Imagine a game NPC that answers your question the instant you speak it, or a live‑streamer who adds a multilingual…

  • Sub-50 ms latency achieved for on-device TTS in games and streams.
  • Models like VITS-Lite, FastSpeech-2+, and Glow-TTS-Tiny enable sub-50 ms performance.

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Nationwide warns returns from corporate AI are still hard to measure

Nationwide has warned that the financial returns from workplace AI remain difficult to quantify, even as the building society rolls out the technology to around 16,000 staff. Around 1,000 employees across the combined Nationwide and Virgin Money finance team now have premium Microsoft 365 Copilot licences, while some 2,500 engineers are…

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World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’

A volunteer for Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to scan and upload books to the shadow library to help preserve human knowledge for the public. The move comes as more AI companies buy, scan, and destroy books to feed to AI models, which is easier and faster than scanning the written works in a non-destructive manner.

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Bluesky Is Full of Anti-AI Zealots

Mike Masnick, in a thread on Bluesky: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their…

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