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ElevenLabs’ new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

ElevenLabs’ new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,ai music,ElevenLabs,Google,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Audio AI company ElevenLabs has launched a new version of its music generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track. The company said the model is designed to handle the complexity of singing and composing. The new release comes nearly 10 months after the startup launched the first version of its music generation model. ElevenLabs noted that the model can transition from opera to heavy metal and back, deliver fast rapping without losing cohesion, and add non-musical sound effects…
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I’m Getting Into Mesh Networks… (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

I’m Getting Into Mesh Networks… (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc.However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on central service providers. The internet is a mesh, but the real players on that mesh are few, far between, and easy to coerce into censorship and other bad things. Even after ascending to the lofty realms of direct BGP peering myself, my access to those resources…
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A Google engineer was charged with insider trading after he made $1.2 million on Polymarket

A Google engineer was charged with insider trading after he made $1.2 million on Polymarket

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,doj,Google,Polymarket 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The US Department of Justice has charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading, alleging that the employee made a $1.2 million trade on Polymarket based on confidential trading information. Spagnuolo, who used the name "AlphaRaccoon" at Polymarket, has worked at Google for more than 12 years, according to information on LinkedIn. “As alleged, Spagnuolo violated duties owed to his employer and used confidential Google business information to generate business profits of more than $1.2 million at Polymarket,” Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney…
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Can we have the day off?

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: May '26So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interact with the world, the way we learn, the way we socialize, and all of this. This sounds great. Really, it does. Everything getting faster and easier would be an extraordinary boon to all of our lives.Can we have a…
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Why Google’s AI can’t spell the word Google (or anything else)

Why Google’s AI can’t spell the word Google (or anything else)

🚀 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Google,spelling 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: How many Ps are there in Google? According to Google, there are two types. There's also exactly one "1" in the word "poop," says Google's AI overview, as well as two "d's" in the word "journalism," yet it's spelled "journadism." Google identified at least one P in the last name of the President of the United States, but wrote it as trpum. You didn't need to be a prophet to predict that Google's AI-forward search overhaul would be bad. We've done this before. The first…
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The future of aerospace software

The future of aerospace software

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ‍Overview‍Today we're open-sourcing a practice rig for Anduril's AI Grand Prix (a $500K autonomous drone-race competition) so contestants and anyone else curious can start writing autopilot code against a working stack now, before the official Virtual Qualifier 1 simulator drops: github.com/elodin-sys/ai-grand-prix. It's open source, runs on macOS and Linux, and the whole setup is uv sync plus a 5-minute Betaflight build. (WSL should be workable too)‍The Elodin Journey‍The path here was longer than we expected. I came into this from the games side. One of…
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With new $100 million raise, Princeton University’s Thea Energy is now top-funded merger startup

With new $100 million raise, Princeton University’s Thea Energy is now top-funded merger startup

🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Climate Capital,fusion power,Gaingels,linse capital,nuclear fusion,Thea Energy,Timescale 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Thea Energy has raised a $100 million Series B round led by US Innovative Technology Fund, the merger startup told TechCrunch. This amount places the company among the best-funded fusion startups, giving it a better chance of creating a commercial reactor. The new funding will help Thea scale up manufacturing of its uniquely designed micromagnets and begin building Eos, a “power station-related” demonstration device, starting next year. Thea previously closed a $20 million Series A in early 2024. The…
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Machine Learning Engineer at Pelica

Machine Learning Engineer at Pelica

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: About Us Pelica Health is the operating system for value-based care. We unify claims, EHR, pharmacy, lab, and ADT data into one live record per member, then put an AI copilot next to every team that depends on it, across risk adjustment, Quality and Stars, pharmacy and Part D, provider network, and care management. Pelica was founded by former engineering and AI leaders from Google and YouTube, including co-founders who built large-scale infrastructure and machine learning systems. You will work alongside people who built massive…
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Remote Payroll says it has achieved a 50% increase in revenue per employee without adding headcount

Remote Payroll says it has achieved a 50% increase in revenue per employee without adding headcount

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,AI adoption,Remote ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Remote, a seven-year-old Amsterdam-based payroll services provider, says it recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash flow positive. But she insists the real story is what happened behind the scenes: a 50% increase in revenue per employee after the startup embraced AI at every level of the organization. “As we speak, on the second screen of my laptop, I have five different instances of Claude running, building different things — some of which are for me, but a lot of…
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Improving AI labels for viewers and creators

Improving AI labels for viewers and creators

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Introducing automatic AI detectionWhile we still require creators to manually disclose when they use realistic AI, we want to make the process more seamless and reliable. Starting in May 2026, we’re rolling out new internal signals to help identify AI-generated content.If a creator doesn’t specify whether or not they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label.As this technology continues to improve, creators remain in control. If a creator thinks their content was incorrectly identified as…
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