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Bernstein analysts described regulatory "double standards" where foreign tech companies receive favorable treatment while domestic companies face what the firm called "crushing rules and government-led 'tech stacks' that make private business unviable." Private AI investment in India totaled $11.29 billion between 2013 and 2024 compared to $471 billion in the United States and $119 billion in China. From the report:<i> When OpenAI, which is reportedly looking to set up a data center in India, announced the plans to launch a new office, it was met with another round of excitement -- "as if Open AI will hire all Indians at hefty salaries," the firm wrote in a note to clients Thursday. Bernstein analysts pour cold water on this excitement, dismissing it as a "repeat of the 90s" and arguing that the hype misses the fundamental power imbalance.<br> <br>
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>On Tuesday, Tencent <a href="https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-Voyager">released</a> HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new open-weights AI model that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/new-ai-model-turns-photos-into-explorable-3d-worlds-with-caveats/">generates 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image</a>, allowing users to pilot a camera path to "explore" virtual scenes. The model simultaneously generates RGB video and depth information to enable direct 3D reconstruction without the need for traditional modeling techniques. However, it won't be replacing video games anytime soon.
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The results aren't true 3D models, but they achieve a similar effect: The AI tool generates 2D video frames that maintain spatial consistency as if a camera were moving through a real 3D space. Each generation produces just 49 frames -- roughly two seconds of video -- though multiple clips can be chained together for sequences lasting "several minutes," according to Tencent. Objects stay in the same relative positions when the camera moves around them, and the perspective changes correctly as you would expect in a real 3D environment. While the output is video with depth maps rather than true 3D models, this information can be converted into 3D point clouds for reconstruction purposes.</i> There are some caveats with the tool. It doesn't generate true 3D models (only 2D frames with depth maps) and each run produces just two seconds of footage, with errors compounding during longer or complex camera motions like full 360-degree rotations. Furthermore, because it relies heavily on training data patterns, its ability to generalize is limited and it demands enormous GPU power (60-80GB of memory) to run effectively. On top of that, <a href="https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanWorld-Voyager/blob/main/LICENSE">licensing restricts</a> use in the EU, UK, and South Korea, with large-scale deployments requiring special agreements.
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A long-term study of over 12,000 adults suggests that artificial sweeteners like aspartame, saccharin, and sugar alcohols <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/03/sweeteners-can-harm-cognitive-health-equivalent-to-16-years-of-ageing-study-finds">may accelerate cognitive decline in middle age</a>, equivalent to about 1.6 years of extra aging. The Guardian reports: <i> Sweeteners' association with cognitive decline is of such concern that consumers should instead use either tagatose, a natural sweetener, or alternatives such as honey or maple syrup, the researchers said. They looked at the impact of seven sweeteners on the health of the study's participants -- 12,772 civil servants in Brazil, with an average age of 52 -- who were followed up for on average eight years. Participants completed questionnaires detailing their food and drink intake over the previous year, and later underwent tests of their cognitive skills such as verbal fluency and word recall.
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People who consumed the most sweeteners experienced declines in their thinking and memory skills 62% faster than those with the lowest intake, the researchers found. This was "the equivalent of about 1.6 years of aging," the researchers said. Consumption of combined and individual LNCs, particularly aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K, erythritol, sorbitol and xylitol, was associated with cognitive loss. "Daily consumption of LNCs was associated with accelerated decline in memory, verbal fluency and global cognition," the authors say in their paper, <a href="https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214023">published in the American medical journal Neurology</a>. However, the trend was only observed in participants under the age of 60. That shows that middle-aged adults need to be encouraged to use fewer sweeteners, they added.</i>
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Just days before Apple's expected launch of the satellite-enabled Apple Watch Ultra 3, Garmin <a href="https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsroom/press-release/wearables-health/introducing-fenix-8-pro-the-first-ever-smartwatches-from-garmin-with-inreach-technology-for-satellite-and-cellular-connectivity/?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&zebratwo=CJ&cjevent=84d59087890511f081eb001d0a1cb827&utm_source=CJ&utm_medium=Text">unveiled</a> its Fenix 8 Pro -- the company's first smartwatch <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/">with built-in inReach satellite and cellular connectivity</a>, SOS features, and a blindingly bright 4,500-nit microLED display. MacRumors reports: <i> With inReach, the Fenix 8 Pro can send location check-ins and text messages over satellite using the Garmin Messenger app. There is also included cellular connectivity, so the smartwatch can make phone calls, send 30-second voice messages, and provide LiveTrack links and weather forecasts when an LTE connection is available.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media, written by Jason Koebler: <i>As I do most nights, I was listening to YouTube videos to fall asleep the other night. Sometime around 3 a.m., I woke up because the video YouTube was autoplaying started going "FEEEEEEEE." The video was called "Boring History for Sleep | How Medieval PEASANTS Survived the Coldest Nights and more." It is two hours long, has 2.3 million views, and, an hour and 15 minutes into the video, the AI-generated voice glitched. "In the end, Anne Boleyn won a kind of immortality. Not through her survival, but through her indelible impact on history. FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE," the narrator says in a fake British accent. "By the early 1770s, the American colonies simmered like a pot left too long over a roaring fire," it continued. The video was from a channel I hadn't seen before, called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SleeplessHistorian?ref=404media.co">Sleepless Historian</a>." I took my headphones out, didn't think much of it at the time, rolled over, and fell back asleep.
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The next night, when I went to pick a new video to fall asleep to, my YouTube homepage was full of videos from Sleepless Historian and several similar-sounding channels like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BoringHistoryBites?ref=404media.co">Boring History Bites</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@historyfallasleep-h1s?ref=404media.co">History Before Sleep</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@snoozetorian">The Snoozetorian</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HistorianSleepy">Historian Sleepy</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TheDreamoria">Dreamoria</a>. Lots of these videos nominally check the boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to. Almost all of them are more than three hours long, and they are about things I don't know much about. Some video titles include "Unusual Medieval Cures for Common Illnesses," "The Entire History of the American Frontier," "What It Was Like to Visit a BR0THEL in Pompeii," and "What GETTING WASTED Was Like in Medieval Times." One of the channels has even been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1v8aI596Rc&ref=404media.co">livestreaming this "history</a>" 24/7 for weeks.
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In the daytime, when I was not groggy and half asleep, it quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are AI generated, and that they are part of a sophisticated and growing AI slop content ecosystem that is flooding YouTube, is drowning out human-made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching, fact-checking, scripting, recording, and editing their videos, and are <a href="https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-boring-history-videos-are-flooding-youtube-and-drowning-out-real-history/">quite literally rewriting history with surface-level, automated drek</a> that the YouTube algorithm delivers to people. YouTube has said it will demonetize or <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/youtube-prepares-crackdown-on-mass-produced-and-repetitive-videos-as-concern-over-ai-slop-grows/?ref=404media.co">otherwise crack down on "mass produced" videos</a>, but it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation of AI-generated videos on the platform, and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change.</i> "It's completely shocking to me," Pete Kelly, who runs the popular <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryTime/videos">History Time</a> YouTube channel, told Koebler in a phone interview. "It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching, writing, narrating, editing, doing all these things to make a video, but now someone can come along and they can do the same thing in a day instead of it taking six months, and the videos are not accurate. The visuals they use are completely inaccurate often. And I'm fearful because this is everywhere."
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