前段时间举行的 Google I/O 上,Google 正式发布了新一代 Gemini 3.5 模型, 同时也提到未来会将 Gemini 的能力融入到 Google 生态的更多产品中。 但让雷科技没想到的是,第一个用上 Gemini 的 Google 生态应用并不是搜索、Youtube、地图等 Google 生态大户,而是近几年存在感不断降低的 Google 翻译:昨天,Google 发布 Goo...
前段时间举行的 Google I/O 上,Google 正式发布了新一代 Gemini 3.5 模型, 同时也提到未来会将 Gemini 的能力融入到 Google 生态的更多产品中。 但让雷科技没想到的是,第一个用上 Gemini 的 Google 生态应用并不是搜索、Youtube、地图等 Google 生态大户,而是近几年存在感不断降低的 Google 翻译:昨天,Google 发布 Google 翻译更新,在翻译中加入了最新的音频模型 Gemini 3.5 Live Translate(下文简称 Gemini 3.5 LT)。 图片来源:Google 那么在 Gemini 3.5 LT 的驱动下,Google 翻译的实时语音翻译功能体验又如何呢? 错词漏词依旧存在,单向翻译模式存硬伤 打开 Google 翻译的实时翻译功能,选择「实时听」模式,就能进入全新的 Gemini 3.5 LT 驱动的翻译模式了。不过奇怪的是, 这个「实时听」模式必须连接外置耳机才能激活。 考虑到 Google 翻译这个实时听模式并不能像时空壶同传模式那样双向同时工作,雷科技对这个「必须接耳机才能用」的设计实属不解。 好在这个「实时听」模式的操作还算简单:打开实时听模式,把手机靠近对方,耳机里就能「实时」听到翻译后的音频了。 图片来源:雷科技 和 Google 翻译之前那个按住才能说话、松手才开始翻译的「对话」模式相比,实时听模式会在对方完成一个短句后开始翻译,时效性要高不少。但在翻译时,Google 依旧有比较明显的延迟。 以中译英的古诗翻译为例, 要念到第三句时,耳机里才会听到第一句的翻译,和专业同传耳机那种几乎「同时启动」的翻译还是有点差距。 至于翻译准确性的问题,雷科技这里给 Google 翻译安排了几个比较经典的游戏对话「原声大碟」用于测试,同时也拉来了苹果翻译和有道翻译作为对比。 我们先来看看原文,相信玩过 GTA:SA 的玩家对这段点餐录音都不会陌生: I'll have 2 number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, 2 number 45s, one with cheese and a large soda. 以下是 Google 翻译「听」到的英文原文: Now, I ha...
British journalist to become one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss CBS News is planning to hire the prominent British broadcaster Trevor Phillips, currently a Sunday morning presenter on Sky News, as a global affairs correspondent for the network, a significant hire for embattled top editor Bari Weiss. The network has not yet announced the appointment, whi...
British journalist to become one of most prominent appointments made by embattled editor-in-chief Bari Weiss CBS News is planning to hire the prominent British broadcaster Trevor Phillips, currently a Sunday morning presenter on Sky News, as a global affairs correspondent for the network, a significant hire for embattled top editor Bari Weiss. The network has not yet announced the appointment, which was first reported by Breaker, and a spokesperson declined comment when asked about it. Phillips did not respond to a Thursday morning message from the Guardian seeking comment. Continue reading...
(RTTNews) - Win Streak May Continue For Malaysia Stock Market The Malaysia stock market has finished higher in back-to-back sessions, collecting 4 points or 0.25 percent in that span. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index now sits just beneath the 1,680-point plateau and it may see ad
(RTTNews) - Win Streak May Continue For Malaysia Stock Market The Malaysia stock market has finished higher in back-to-back sessions, collecting 4 points or 0.25 percent in that span. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index now sits just beneath the 1,680-point plateau and it may see ad
A Malaysian mother of two broke down in tears as she begged for leniency from the sharia High Court in Melaka for attempting to have sex with another woman’s husband last year. According to Sinar Harian, the accused, Siti Iqbar Mazlan, 35, during the proceedings before Judge Abu Bakar Daud on Thursday said that she regretted her actions and also apologised to the man’s wife, Puteri Norfatimah Isha...
A Malaysian mother of two broke down in tears as she begged for leniency from the sharia High Court in Melaka for attempting to have sex with another woman’s husband last year. According to Sinar Harian, the accused, Siti Iqbar Mazlan, 35, during the proceedings before Judge Abu Bakar Daud on Thursday said that she regretted her actions and also apologised to the man’s wife, Puteri Norfatimah Ishak, 25. According to the charges, Siti Iqbar and Hairul Mokhsin Zaini, 24, were found to have...
Despite recent stock underperformance, Microsoft remains one of the best-positioned companies to capitalize on the booming AI and cloud computing markets.
Despite recent stock underperformance, Microsoft remains one of the best-positioned companies to capitalize on the booming AI and cloud computing markets.
MediaTek Inc. shares are poised for their best quarter on record, as investors bet a shift into artificial intelligence chips can help it shed the overhang of its struggling older-tech business. Optimism is growing that the Taiwanese company’s deal to design application-specific integrated circuits with Alphabet Inc.’s Google points to a new growth engine. That’s driven its stock up 174% since the...
MediaTek Inc. shares are poised for their best quarter on record, as investors bet a shift into artificial intelligence chips can help it shed the overhang of its struggling older-tech business. Optimism is growing that the Taiwanese company’s deal to design application-specific integrated circuits with Alphabet Inc.’s Google points to a new growth engine. That’s driven its stock up 174% since the end of March, making it one of Asia’s top perfomers and adding more than $130 billion in market value. The reappraisal highlights how ASICs are winning more attention as AI focuses on everyday tasks, offering major tech firms lower costs and greater customization. MediaTek’s deal with Google is spurring expectations it can win more business and steal away share from Broadcom Inc. , the top player in this niche. “MediaTek has shown much progress in its data-center ASIC business, leading to a change in perception from investors,” said Kevin Net , head of Asian equities at Financière de l’Echiquier. “Up until early this year, it was still mostly seen as a smartphone play.” Handset chips still account for around half of MediaTek’s sales, meaning it’s vulnerable to sluggishness in the smartphone market, as indicated in its latest forecast. Bulls are looking beyond this as the company strives to grow its AI operations. Its inroad is through ASICs. These chips are cheaper than the graphics processing units made by Nvidia Corp. that are used for AI training. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang himself spotlighted ASICs last week, predicting designer Marvell Technology Inc. will reach a $1 trillion valuation on booming business. The market has ramped up bets on success for MediaTek, whose shares are outpacing those of Broadcom as well as Taiwanese AI ASIC rivals Alchip Technologies Ltd. and Global Unichip Corp. in the past few months. MediaTek is on a hiring spree to boost its AI business, which it expects to generate revenue of about $2 billion this year and more in 2027. ...
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
The man accused of setting the massive Palisades Fire in Los Angeles repeatedly asked ChatGPT to create images of a city engulfed in flames and floods, and cursed at OpenAI ’s chatbot when it told him the scenery he envisioned was too violent, jurors at his trial were told Thursday. Months before Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly set the Jan. 1, 2025, brush fire that authorities say later morphed in...
The man accused of setting the massive Palisades Fire in Los Angeles repeatedly asked ChatGPT to create images of a city engulfed in flames and floods, and cursed at OpenAI ’s chatbot when it told him the scenery he envisioned was too violent, jurors at his trial were told Thursday. Months before Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly set the Jan. 1, 2025, brush fire that authorities say later morphed into the blaze that destroyed one of the city’s richest neighborhoods, he repeatedly instructed the chatbot to create images of wealth inequality featuring mass devastation, according to a federal agent who helped retrieve data from his two phones. Jurors saw a transcript of Rinderknecht’s exchange with ChatGPT showing that the chatbot initially rejected his requests, telling him the violent scenes were against the company’s policy. Prosecutors argue that Rinderknecht was upset that he was alone on New Year’s Eve and was motivated by his anger at social and financial inequality to set a fire in a state park atop the Pacific Palisades with a barbeque lighter. Read More: Man Accused of $37 Billion LA Fire Is Innocent, His Lawyer Says Rinderknecht’s lawyer contends he’s innocent, and has been made a “scapegoat” for the failure of firefighters to prevent the quickly contained Jan. 1 Lachman Fire from rekindling six days later into the massive Palisades Fire after hurricane-force winds stoked underground embers. In one prompt, Rinderknecht, then 29, asked ChatGPT for a depiction of a tsunami of water as well as “a bunch of trees burning and the first part of the population is running away and some of them are looking back and screaming and suffering and drowning.” ChatGPT responded: “The specific request still includes elements that are not compliant with our content policy, such as the depiction of widespread suffering.” “That’s the reality,” Rinderknecht replied, according to the transcript. Jurors also saw the defendant berate and curse at the chatbot after it refused to comply...
Donny DBM/iStock via Getty Images Q1 2026 Key takeaways 1 Fund performance Invesco Limited Term California Municipal Fund Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) outperformed its style-specific index, the S&P Municipal California Investment Grade 4-7 Years Bond Index. 2 Seeking attractive opportunities through collaborative management Invesco ( IVZ ) Municipal Bond team uses a collaborative manage...
Donny DBM/iStock via Getty Images Q1 2026 Key takeaways 1 Fund performance Invesco Limited Term California Municipal Fund Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) outperformed its style-specific index, the S&P Municipal California Investment Grade 4-7 Years Bond Index. 2 Seeking attractive opportunities through collaborative management Invesco ( IVZ ) Municipal Bond team uses a collaborative management approach. Relying on our size and experience, we seek to identify the best opportunities to achieve potentially better outcomes for shareholders. 3 Analysis focused on creditworthiness Our team uses a bottom-up fundamental credit process focused on creditworthiness of individual issuers with an overlay of macroeconomic factors to capitalize on market inefficiencies. Our process has been time tested over full market cycles. Manager perspective and outlook • The first quarter saw mixed results in the municipal bond market, with investment grade, high yield and taxable municipals delivering returns of -0.18%, 0.71% and 0.43%, respectively. ¹ In March, increased supply and geopolitical tensions offset much of the strong performance in the first two months of the quarter. ¹ • New municipal issuance reached $135 billion, 11% higher than the first quarter of 2025. Issuance was likely driven by significant US infrastructure needs, higher supply costs and reduced federal spending. ¹ • Municipal mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had strong net inflows over the quarter, totaling approximately $26 billion. ² • The US Federal Reserve (Fed) kept the federal funds rate steady during the quarter, reiterating its commitment to balancing maximum employment and a 2% inflation target. ³ • We believe state and local government budgets remain on solid footing. While there has been a slowdown in credit rating upgrades, they still exceeded downgrades in the first quarter, highlighting in our view strong underlying fundamentals. ¹ • Our research team is leveraging its deep credit e...
FeelPic/iStock via Getty Images Listen here or on the go via Apple Podcasts and Spotify For small cap investors, it's taken a lot of Courage and Conviction to see through recent drawdowns (0:35) BuzzFeed update (10:40) Arq update (19:15) Why Cineverse is Courage and Conviction Investing 's favorite stock right now (22:00) Leslie's an example of pure alpha (31:50) Position sizing (41:00) Transcript...
FeelPic/iStock via Getty Images Listen here or on the go via Apple Podcasts and Spotify For small cap investors, it's taken a lot of Courage and Conviction to see through recent drawdowns (0:35) BuzzFeed update (10:40) Arq update (19:15) Why Cineverse is Courage and Conviction Investing 's favorite stock right now (22:00) Leslie's an example of pure alpha (31:50) Position sizing (41:00) Transcript Rena Sherbill: Courage and Conviction Investing , our favorite person to talk small caps and the market with, welcome back to the show. Courage and Conviction Investing: Hey Rena, it's great to be back. It's been a while. I think it was last September , and thanks for reaching out. I'm thrilled to be back. Rena Sherbill: It's great to have you back. And like last time, we have had fervent fan requests for you to come back. Some of them have made some very nice returns on some of the stocks that you have highlighted in the past. We just had David Keller on who said he knew you on yesterday's episode, and he was talking about how small caps have done extraordinarily well this year. Where do you think is a good place to start us off from last episode when you were sharing some of the ways of withstanding some of the drawdowns in the small cap world? A different story today, I think. But where is a good place to start? Courage and Conviction Investing: When we talked last time, I simply said that if you were downstream of the 550 billion capex cycle for the hyperscalers, that was the easiest place to be. And that there had already been a big leg up, and that that's not at all what I do. But it turned out that if you simply took that advice and just at the highest level and said, okay, the hyperscalers are spending 550 billion, that's accelerating, they're using all their free cash flow, plus they're taking on debt and the tens of billions, because there's this arms race as to who's gonna get there faster, who's gonna have the leg up. That would have worked exceptionally well i...