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In today's Techpresso:

🔮 Google unveils an AI coding agent

✨ Airbnb expands into services and experiences

🎬 TikTok's new AI Alive feature turns images into videos

🎨 Google announces Material 3 Expressive

🤖 Audible AI helps publishers create more audiobooks faster

🎁 + 13 other news you might like

🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools

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🔮 Google unveils an AI coding agent LINK
  • Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, an advanced AI agent that autonomously generates and improves new computer code through large language models and an evolutionary process.
  • This sophisticated system is actively enhancing Google's infrastructure by boosting data center resourcefulness, optimizing hardware designs for chips, and speeding up AI model training procedures.
  • Furthermore, AlphaEvolve has made remarkable scientific discoveries, establishing new mathematical records in complex calculations and finding solutions to previously intractable geometric problems for researchers.
✨ Airbnb expands into services and experiences LINK
  • Airbnb now allows travelers to book services like massages and chef meals, plus various experiences such as guided tours, independently or with their accommodation.
  • These new offerings will be available across numerous global cities, with distinct categories for personal amenities and guided excursions for users to select.
  • The company's broader app refresh also incorporates upcoming social functionalities and an AI assistant designed to help individuals plan their future trips more effectively.
🎬 TikTok's new AI Alive feature turns images into videos LINK
  • TikTok is introducing a new feature called "AI Alive," which allows users to transform static photographs from their gallery into short videos for TikTok Stories.
  • This function, accessible through the Story Camera, uses artificial intelligence to imbue images with dynamic motion, atmospheric alterations, and imaginative visual enhancements for creative storytelling.
  • Creations made with AI Alive will visibly carry an "AI-generated" label and embed C2PA metadata, helping to identify the content as AI-produced even if shared elsewhere.
🎨 Google announces Material 3 Expressive LINK
  • Google has introduced Material 3 Expressive, its most researched and maximalist design system, promising faster on-screen navigation through bolder colors and more playful animations.
  • This updated visual language shifts towards greater personalization and a more overt style, aiming to resonate emotionally with users in an era increasingly valuing self-expression.
  • Extensive research involving over 18,000 participants confirmed strong user preference for this vibrant approach, which also significantly enhances task completion speed across all age demographics.
🤖 Audible AI helps publishers create more audiobooks faster LINK
  • Audible is equipping select publishers with its new AI production technology, streamlining the conversion of titles into audiobooks using diverse AI-generated voices.
  • The initiative also plans to expand international audiobook availability by introducing an AI translation instrument, expected to launch in a preliminary beta phase later this year.
  • These publishing partners can choose a fully managed service or a self-service platform, giving them control over the entire audiobook creation process.

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  • AI was coming for radiologists’ jobs. So far, they’re just more efficient. LINK
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Trending research and tools

Type-constrained code generation with language models: it describes how using type information helps language models write code that correctly adheres to specified data types. LINK
HelixDB: a high-performance, open-source vector-graph database for AI applications that stores relationships between data points and vectors, supporting Retrieval Augmented Generation. LINK
uBlock Origin Lite beta version for Safari: a test version of this content blocker is now available for Safari on macOS and iOS, helping users filter unwanted web content. LINK
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