The Daily Index — Monday, May 12, 2025

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Analyze and Reason on Multimodal Data with Gemini

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cloudskillsboost.google

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Enhance Gemini Model Capabilities

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cloudskillsboost.google

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META'S NEW FAIR DIRECTOR

Meta has appointed Robert Fergus, previously a research director at DeepMind, to head its FAIR lab after a period of leadership changes and talent departures.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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OPENAI AND MICROSOFT NEGOTIATE PARTNERSHIP TERMS TO ENABLE FUTURE IPO

OpenAI and Microsoft are renegotiating their multibillion-dollar partnership in a critical deal that could determine the AI leader's future. Microsoft, which has invested over $13 billion in OpenAI, is offering to exchange some of its equity stake for access to technology beyond their current contract's 2030 expiration.

techcrunch.com · 1 min

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OPTIMIZING GEMM WITH THREAD BLOCK CLUSTERS

Thread block clusters and 2-SM UMMA instructions on Blackwell GPUs enable higher arithmetic intensity and more efficient memory transfers in GEMM workloads using CUTLASS.

research.colfax-intl.com · 28 min

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CHATGPT'S CARBON FOOTPRINT IS NEGLIGIBLE COMPARED TO DAILY ACTIVITIES

ChatGPT queries consume far less energy than commonly believed. Updated estimates suggest just 0.3 Wh per typical query - ten times lower than previous calculations. While AI's aggregate energy demand requires attention, individual text-based AI usage shouldn't trigger climate guilt, especially compared to higher-impact activities like transportation or heating.

sustainabilitybynumbers.com · 7 min

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OPEN SOURCE PROJECT CURL BATTLES WAVE OF AI-GENERATED FALSE VULNERABILITIES

curl's project founder, Daniel Stenberg, has reached a breaking point with the flood of AI-generated false vulnerability reports submitted through platforms like HackerOne. While HackerOne maintains that AI can enhance reporting quality when used responsibly, Stenberg is pushing for stronger infrastructure and tools to combat what he describes as effectively a DDoS attack on maintainers' time and attention.

arstechnica.com · 4 min

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META ASSETGEN 2.0

Meta's AssetGen 2.0 is a set of new diffusion-based models for generating detailed 3D meshes and textures from text and image prompts that improve consistency, fidelity, and view-aware texture resolution over its predecessor.

developers.meta.com · 6 min

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GEMINI 2.5 VIDEO UNDERSTANDING

Gemini 2.5 Pro has shown state-of-the-art performance on video benchmarks like YouCook2 and QVHighlights, outperforming GPT-4.1 and rivaling fine-tuned specialist models under equal evaluation settings.

developers.googleblog.com · 5 min

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CANADIAN PHARMACIST EXPOSED AS KEY FIGURE BEHIND WORLD'S LARGEST EXPLICIT DEEPFAKE SITE

Investigative journalists have identified Toronto-area pharmacist David Do as a central figure behind MrDeepFakes.com. The site permanently shut down following the revelations. It had 650,000 users and generated over 2 billion views since 2018. The site hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual AI-generated explicit videos of celebrities, influencers, and private citizens. While non-consensual deepfakes remain legal in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney has pledged to criminalize it following the practice of countries like the UK and Australia.

cbc.ca · 13 min

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SINGLE-IMAGE TO 3D AVATARS

SVAD combines video diffusion and 3D Gaussian Splatting to generate high-quality animatable avatars from a single image, achieving real-time rendering.

yc4ny.github.io · 4 min

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OPENAI TO ACQUIRE CODING TOOL WINDSURF FOR $3 BILLION

OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire AI-assisted coding platform Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for approximately $3 billion.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

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SOUNDCLOUD'S QUIET TERMS UPDATE

SoundCloud reportedly changed its terms of service to permit AI training on user-uploaded content, prompting concerns over transparency and consent.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 1 min

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FUTUREHOUSE RELEASES AI TOOLS IT CLAIMS CAN ACCELERATE SCIENCE

FutureHouse, backed by Eric Schmidt, has launched AI tools to aid scientific research, including Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix.

techcrunch.com · 3 min