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Lyria 3: AI-generated music joins the Gemini ecosystem
The use of artificial intelligence to generate text, images, or code has now become widely accessible. In 2025, a new milestone was reached with the integration of Lyria 3 into Gemini, the multimodal model developed by Google. This development now makes it possible to generate musical pieces based on textual instructions…
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With its lifelike AI, Seedance 2.0 is putting pressure on Disney
Generative artificial intelligence is reaching new heights in audiovisual creation. Following OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo, it is now the turn of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to shake up the industry with Seedance 2.0, a video model launched in China on February 12, 2026. Capable of producing scenes…
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What if an elephant's whiskers could change the future of robots?
How can a five-ton animal handle a peanut with more precision than a state-of-the-art robotic arm? The answer lies neither in its strength nor its size, but in an almost invisible detail: its whiskers. These sensory hairs scattered along…
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50% of French people use AI: findings from the 2026 Barometer
In less than three years, generative artificial intelligence has reached a major milestone in France. Long viewed as an innovation reserved for experts or large tech companies, it has become part of daily life for a large segment of the population. Searching for information, rewriting a text, preparing a presentation,…
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As AI Explores the Universe, Hubble Reveals 1,400 Previously Unseen Cosmic Anomalies
For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the universe with unparalleled precision. From distant galaxies and nebulae to supernovae and gravitational lenses, its instruments have amassed a staggering amount of data. In 35 years of observation, Hubble has generated hundreds of millions of images—a volume so vast that no human team could…
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On Mars, NASA is handing control over to AI, a key step for space exploration
For the first time in the history of space exploration, a Mars rover has traversed the surface of another planet along a route entirely designed by artificial intelligence. On December 8 and 10, 2025, the Perseverance rover traveled nearly 400 meters across Jezero Crater on Mars by…
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Moltbook envisions an AI-driven society with a human-free social network
What if artificial intelligence no longer needed humans to communicate, debate, and organize? In early 2026, Moltbook crossed a new threshold. Billed as “the homepage of the Internet of Agents,” the platform became, in just a few days, the first social network populated exclusively by AI, where…
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RentAHuman.ai, the concept where artificial intelligence recruits people
What if, tomorrow, it were no longer humans hiring machines, but artificial intelligence recruiting people to act on their behalf in the real world? This scenario, which once seemed like the stuff of science fiction, is taking on a very real form with RentAHuman.ai, an experimental platform where…
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SpaceX Acquires xAI, the AI Firm at the Heart of Musk’s Space Ambitions
Elon Musk has just taken another step forward in building his tech empire. SpaceX has officially announced the acquisition of xAI, the artificial intelligence startup that also owns the social media platform X. This deal marks the largest corporate consolidation Musk has ever undertaken, and far exceeds…
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Google is revolutionizing online browsing with "Auto Browse," the AI agent that surfs the web for you
The way we browse the web is changing. With Auto Browse, Google no longer simply helps users with their searches; it now offers them the option to delegate the task directly to artificial intelligence. Clicking, scrolling through pages, opening tabs, or filling out forms is becoming…
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Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex were unveiled on the same day, accelerating the race for large-scale models
The timing is too perfect to be a coincidence. On the same day, just hours apart, Anthropic and OpenAI unveiled their most advanced new models: Claude Opus 4.6 on one side, and GPT-5.3 Codex on the other. These two simultaneous announcements point to one thing: the competition between AI labs…
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Body Scan 2: Withings Expands Its Smart Scale to Track 60 Health Metrics
Seventeen years after launching one of the first smart scales on the market, Withings is taking things to the next level. Unveiled at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the Body Scan 2 is no longer designed simply as a weight-tracking device, but as a true wellness hub capable of analyzing 60 health metrics…
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Gemini launches "Personal Intelligence," an AI that adapts to your habits
Artificial intelligence is entering a decisive phase: that of deep personalization. After years of assistants capable of providing effective but largely generic responses, Google is taking a new step forward with “Personal Intelligence,” a feature currently in beta in the United States within Gemini. The goal is clear: to transform AI into…
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Kyutai and Olivier Goy are combining AI and voice technology to help people who have lost the ability to speak
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Charcot’s disease, affects approximately 2 to 3 people per 100,000 worldwide and leads to a progressive loss of motor function, including speech.¹ For many patients, the loss of their voice is one of the most profound changes…
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Study: Can Artificial Intelligence Compete with Human Creativity?
Creativity has long been considered one of the last bastions of human intelligence. Imagining, connecting unrelated ideas, and producing originality seemed beyond the reach of machines. However, a large-scale scientific study, published in early 2026 in *Scientific Reports* (Nature group), has turned this assumption on its head. By comparing the creativity of…