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🎥 YouTube is testing an AI voice-dubbing feature for creators
💰 Amazon's major investment plans in India totaling $26 billion by 2030
🧠 Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience conducts its first clinical study
🛑 Russia blocks Google News amidst military threats from mercenary group

🎥 YouTube is testing an AI voice-dubbing feature for creatorsLINK

YouTube is testing a new AI-powered tool in collaboration with Google's Aloud, aimed at enabling creators to automatically dub their videos into multiple languages.

Aloud, introduced by Google in 2022, allows creators to review and edit transcriptions before generating the dubbed version, at no additional cost.

YouTube plans to improve the dubbing quality, working towards making translated audio tracks sound more like the original creator's voice, with enhanced emotion transfer, lip-sync, and potential voice preservation features in the future.

💰 Amazon's major investment plans in India totaling $26 billion by 2030LINK

Amazon plans to invest an additional $15 billion in India by 2030, primarily for the expansion of its cloud business, AWS, taking its total commitment to $26 billion.

India continues to be a crucial overseas market for Amazon despite recent closures of several businesses in the country, with rival company Walmart also investing over $2.5 billion in India this year.

Other tech giants are making high-profile commitments to India, including Google, which plans to open a global fintech operation centre, and U.S. memory chip firm Micron, committing up to $825 million for its first assembly and test facility in the country.

🧠 Neuralink competitor Precision Neuroscience conducts its first clinical studyLINK

Precision Neuroscience successfully conducted its first in-human clinical study of its brain-computer interface (BCI) system, providing what the company claims is the highest resolution picture of human thought ever recorded.

The company's thin electrode array, the Layer 7 Cortical Interface, was temporarily placed on the brains of three patients, showing potential for future applications in clinical and behavioral contexts, with long-term goals of helping patients with degenerative diseases like ALS regain some ability to communicate.

While the procedure marks a significant milestone, Precision still faces the lengthy process of gaining U.S. FDA approval, with extensive testing and data collection necessary; no BCI company has yet to secure this final approval as of June 2023.

🛑 Russia blocks Google News amidst military threats from mercenary groupLINK

Russian internet service providers have blocked access to Google News amidst rising tensions between President Vladimir Putin and the Wagner paramilitary group.

The blockage comes after the Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, appeared to take control of a city home to Russia's southern military headquarters, and Prigozhin vowed to topple Russia's Defense Ministry.

The blocking of Google News follows a pattern of censorship in Russia, with tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter having been partially or fully blocked in the country since its invasion of Ukraine last year.

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