It’s not just all about the film screenings at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), whose 60th edition takes over the Czech Republic July 3-11. For folks working in film, TV, publishing and beyond, there is also business to be done at the expanded and broadened Industry Days program of the festival. Hugo Rosák, head of the KVIFF Film Industry Office, has…
When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something useful. As a robotics software engineer who leads the team behind…
Today, we’re advancing Gemini’s real-time dialogue capabilities with Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, our highest-quality audio and voice model yet. It delivers the speed and natural rhythm needed for the next generation of voice-first AI, offering a more intuitive experience for developers, enterprises and everyday users. 3.1 Flash Live is available across Google products: For developers:…
Single-page launches, odd redirects Ars conducted a comprehensive review of launched sites to assess NDS’s progress so far. Most of the few dozen websites NDS has launched consist of a single page, where visitors can do little more than fill out a sign-up form. The most useful offering may be TrumpRX, which includes a search…
UPDATE: 2026/06/10 14:11 EST BY CHANDRA STEELE Google says some of the fixes are in Google confirmed the outage with AP. Vice President of Google Labs and Gemini Josh Woodward posted that a return to usual service is imminent. Woodward wrote that some of the fixes are completed and the rest are “coming very soon.”…
Claude Code has set a very high bar for AI coding tools. It is fast when it needs to be, thoughtful when the project gets messy, and quite good at understanding what I actually want instead of blindly following every prompt. Still, I wanted to see whether the newer wave of coding tools could match…
Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history. While speaking at the Open Frontier conference hosted by the Laude Institute, Cerf was recognized by Dave Patterson, the UC Berkeley professor best known for co-developing RISC…
Over the brief, long history of video-generation models, every new release is accompanied by the hype that this one, finally, will be the breakthrough that becomes a standard. There’s no definitive reason yet to think that will be the case for OpenArt‘s “Director,” a tool from a Redwood City company led by a pair of…
Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, microservices and domain-specific tools — to help researchers run more sophisticated workflows and iterate faster. This week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, an AI workbench for science…
