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Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Intuitive Controlled Emotion

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Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Intuitive Controlled Emotion

The Text-to-Speech (TTS) landscape ranges from modular pipelines to large integrated audio models (LAMs). Fish Audio’s release of the S2-Pro, the flagship model within the Fish Speech ecosystem, represents the transition to open architectures capable of high-fidelity, multi-speaker integration with sub-150ms latency. The release provides a framework for combining implicit voice and granular emotion control … Read more

How to Build a Self-Designing Meta-Agent That Automatically Builds, Optimizes, and Refines Task-Specific AIs

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How to Build a Self-Designing Meta-Agent That Automatically Builds, Optimizes, and Refines Task-Specific AIs

class MetaAgent: def __init__(self, llm: Optional[LocalLLM] = None): self.llm = llm or LocalLLM() def _capability_heuristics(self, task: str) -> Dict[str, Any]: t = task.lower() needs_data = any(k in t for k in [“csv”, “dataframe”, “pandas”, “dataset”, “table”, “excel”]) needs_math = any(k in t for k in [“calculate”, “compute”, “probability”, “equation”, “optimize”, “derivative”, “integral”]) needs_writing = any(k … Read more

Netflix’s ‘Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere’ review: Disturbing but worth watching

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Netflix’s ‘Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere’ review: Disturbing but worth watching

Anyone who has seen the award-winning Netflix series Youth they will have heard the term “manosphere” – and many people who have used the Internet in recent years will have come across it. The term refers to an online subculture where so-called “alpha males” – think Andrew Tate and the like – preach a philosophy … Read more

Inflation is coming to Fortnite: V-Bucks prices are going up

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Inflation is coming to Fortnite: V-Bucks prices are going up

Even the in-game currencies of your favorite military shooters cannot cope with the current global economic conditions. Fortnitethe most popular online free-to-play game, announced on Tuesday that it is increasing the prices of its in-game currency V-Bucks. “Running costs Fortnite has increased significantly and we are raising prices to help pay the bills,” developer Epic … Read more

150 Years After the First Telephone, We Still Want 1-on-1 Connections

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150 Years After the First Telephone, We Still Want 1-on-1 Connections

My interview with William Caughlin, head of the AT&T Archives and History Center, began in a strange way. Our Microsoft Teams video call failed, so we ended up talking about a “regular” call. Maybe “normal” isn’t entirely true, given the infrastructure. But it was appropriate for the topic of our discussion: the very first telephone, … Read more

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Measuring LLM Terminal Agents

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Measuring LLM Terminal Agents

The race to build autonomous AI agents has hit a major bottleneck: data. While benchmark models like Claude Code and Codex CLI have shown impressive expertise in endpoints, the training techniques and data mixes behind them remain closely guarded secrets. This lack of privacy has forced researchers and devs into an expensive cycle of trial … Read more

How to Make Your Life Easier in 2026 – New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman (#857)

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How to Make Your Life Easier in 2026 – New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman (#857)

Many of us feel as if we are drowning in invisible problems. So I wanted to take a moment and ask a simple question: What 1-3 decisions would make my life easier in 2026? To test that, I invited five longtime listener favorites: Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman. More … Read more