Duolingo has a really cool approach: combining preprogrammed gestures in 2D avatars with text-to-speech to create fast, expressive, relatively inexpensive interactions.
With video models moving toward real-time generation, this approach might eventually become unnecessary. But I
BREAKING: The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 25bps for the first time since July 2023.
It was a unanimous 12-0 decision.
The Fed wrote in their statement that Middle East conflicts and geopolitical developments led to the decision.
They are projecting 2 more
French finance minister Roland Lescure suggested today that calls to slow down development of AI are a ploy by U.S. AI labs so they can stay in first place, and that France and Europe should ignore them and accelerate instead.
