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Funding

Microsoft and Mistral in Multi-Billion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Deal

Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their strategic partnership with a multi-billion-dollar agreement to build AI infrastructure across Europe. Mistral will deploy thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs, and Microsoft will use that capacity for its cloud and AI services. Mistral's Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models are now available in Microsoft Foundry, with Medium 3.5 also in Copilot Studio. The deal targets regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, allowing companies to run Mistral models through Azure Local in the cloud, on-premises, or offline. Microsoft President Brad Smith emphasized Europe's need for powerful AI without sacrificing data control.

Jul 213 minNeura News

AI Models

Alibaba Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus Tops Speech Arena Leaderboard

Alibaba's Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus has claimed the top spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena leaderboard for provider voices, achieving an Elo score of 1,236. The model narrowly beats SpeechifyAI's Simba 3.2 (1,234) and other competitors like Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and Sonic 3.5. Available in Flash and Plus versions, it supports 16 languages and offers natural language style control, though its speed lags behind rivals.

Jul 212 minNeura News

Industry

Sony Sues Udio Over 30,000 Songs in AI Copyright Case

Sony Music Entertainment has filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, accusing it of infringing copyright on more than 30,000 songs. The list includes tracks from Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Johnny Cash, and Harry Styles. Sony claims the songs were copied and ingested into Udio's generative AI models without permission.

Jul 203 minNeura News

AI Models

Thinking Machines Lab Releases Open-Weight Inkling AI Model

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first open-weights AI model. The 975B parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer is Apache-2.0 licensed and trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. While not a frontier model, it aims to serve as a strong base for fine-tuning via the Tinker platform.

Jul 163 minNeura News

AI Models

AI Voice Fraud Outpaces Defenses as Losses Hit $893 Million

The FBI reported over $893 million in AI-enabled fraud losses in 2025, with older adults losing $352 million. Voice cloning requires just three seconds of audio, and detection experts admit they can no longer reliably distinguish real from fake. Banks, telecoms, and regulators are struggling to contain a threat that is both technically advanced and emotionally devastating.

Jul 1525 minNeura News

AI Tools

One-Click Integration from Hugging Face to SageMaker Studio

Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI have launched a deep-link integration that lets developers go from model discovery on Hugging Face directly into SageMaker Studio with a single click. The integration includes pre-configured permissions and GPU quota visibility, reducing the friction of manual setup for fine-tuning and deployment.

Jul 74 minNeura News

Product Launch

Microsoft and Hugging Face Launch Open Models on Foundry Managed Compute

Microsoft and Hugging Face have partnered to bring a curated catalog of open-weight models from Hugging Face to Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute. Announced at Build 2026, the collection includes thousands of models across text, vision, and audio modalities, refreshed weekly and deployable with one click. Models are pre-staged in Azure, runtimes are built and scanned by Microsoft, and every model ships with enterprise security, governance, and billing.

Jul 710 minNeura News

Product Launch

Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate delivers real-time voice translation

Google has released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a real-time audio translation model that supports over 70 languages. The model automatically detects languages, preserves the speaker's tone and pace, and translates continuously without waiting for sentence breaks. It is now available for developers, in Google Meet as a preview, and in the Google Translate app on Android and iOS.

Jun 93 minNeura News

Developer

Google AI Studio quickly coded my first Android app, but it was bad

Sean Hollister built three Android apps in one afternoon using Google AI Studio's new vibe coding feature. The process was remarkably fast: type a prompt, press install, and get a working app within minutes. But the apps were buggy and limited. A calorie counter gave incorrect numbers, a text adventure game had showstopper bugs, and a Mario knockoff crashed on startup. Daily usage limits also cut the experiment short.

May 215 minNeura News

Developer

Microsoft Adds Copilot Tag to VS Code Commits Even with AI Disabled

Microsoft included a 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' line in Visual Studio Code Git commits, even when AI features were turned off. A product manager pushed the change, which faced backlash on GitHub and Hacker News. The developer plans to revert it in version 1.119.

May 33 minNeura News

Developer

VS Code Adds Copilot Co-Author to Commits by Default

A recent pull request in Visual Studio Code changed the default for git.addAICoAuthor from off to all. This update causes the editor to insert Co-Authored-by: Copilot trailers into git commits automatically when AI code is detected. Developers reacted strongly against the change, with over 100 thumbs-down reactions and complaints about insertions even without Copilot use.

May 23 minNeura News

Industry

Apple Surprised by AI Demand for Macs

Apple reported stronger-than-expected Mac sales in its second quarter, driven by demand for AI workloads. Mac revenue reached $8.4 billion, up 6% year-over-year, beating forecasts. CEO Tim Cook highlighted surprise growth from local AI models like OpenClaw on devices such as Mac mini and Mac Studio.

Apr 303 minNeura News