Bytedance's open-weight Helios model brings minute-long AI video generation close to real time
Bytedance researchers say Helios is the first 14-billion-parameter video model to hit 19.5 FPS on a single GPU while generating minute-long clips. Code and weights are publicly available.<br /> [...]
Hallucinated references are passing peer review at top AI conferences and a new open tool wants to fix that
Accepted papers at leading AI conferences contain hallucinated references: citations that don't point to any real publication. A new tool called CiteAudit aims to tackle the problem systematicall [...]
'If anyone can make open earbuds work, it'd be Skullcandy': these new sports-specific buds could dethrone the Shokz — and cost half as much
The Skullcandy Push 540 Open combine old-school tools with Skullcandy magic, and it could give them the gumption to take on the Shokz as our favorite open earbuds. [...]
Scale AI launches Voice Showdown, the first real-world benchmark for voice AI — and the results are humbling for some top models
Voice AI is moving faster than the tools we use to measure it. Every major AI lab — OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI — is racing to ship voice models capable of natural, real-time conversat [...]
Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations
Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Arena AI open-model leaderboard. The Apach [...]
The myth of Claude Mythos crumbles as small open models hunt the same cybersecurity bugs Anthropic showcased
Anthropic has kept its Claude Mythos cybersecurity model on a short leash, pointing to capabilities it says no rival can match. But two new studies suggest that even small, openly available models can [...]