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Rhiannon Williams

@yannon_

Reporter @techreview. AI, robots, what's next Award-winning writer of The Download daily newsletter, running bore. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿&🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Buzzing that my daily newsletter The Download won Best Technology Newsletter 2025 at this year's Publisher Newsletter Awards! I'm so grateful to be recognised among such talented writers: publishernewsletters.com/202…
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Good to see Google’s AI Overviews are still totally reliable
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How Synthesia is combining multiple AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent preservation (@yannon_ / MIT Technology Review) technologyreview.com/2025/09… techmeme.com/250905/p4#a2509… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?from…
Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.

Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.

The uncanny valley is narrowing. Are we ready for what comes next?

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I visited Synthesia's London offices to be turned into a hyperrealistic AI avatar, and it was unnerving and eye-opening in equal measure. Check out my story, featuring weirdly smooth hands, addictive AI, and Ed Sheeran bad-mouthing (sorry Ed...) technologyreview.com/2025/09…
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the long-awaited Noel tea-making entry in the Oasis canon @RichardVaughan1
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I wrote about my favourite podcast (and Instagram account) @everyoutfitpod for MIT Technology Review magazine! Fuckettes in STEM, rise up! You can read the full story here: technologyreview.com/2025/06…
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this is important to me on a spiritual level
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Nathan Fielder, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross PEEL IT BACK NORTH AMERICAN LEG AUGUST 10TH • VANCOUVER
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is it possible to watch Tron: Ares in the cinema without it being perceived by the studios as an endorsement of jared leto
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"let me be clear—i'm seeing it *in spite* of him"
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Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem. The AI model is still slapping garbled, nonsensical captions on its videos more than a month after launch, even when users explicitly ask for no captions at all: technologyreview.com/2025/07…
Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem

Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem

The AI model is still slapping garbled, nonsensical captions on videos more than a month after launch, even when users explicitly ask for no captions at all.

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thank you So Many Mangoes
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Congratulations! Now you need a second newsletter for all the fans. #TechBroToTheMax #NerdyAndProud #ReadAtYourOwnRisk
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Not Jeremy Hunt using ChatGPT to write his new book 🥴
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Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the way for more proficient AI agents (@yannon_ / MIT Technology Review) technologyreview.com/2025/05… techmeme.com/250522/p33#a250… xitter.cf/Techmeme/status/186309…

Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time

The company claims its ability to tackle complex, multistep problems paves the way for much more proficient AI agents.

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I'm thrilled that The Download, my daily newsletter I write for MIT Technology Review, is shortlisted for Best Technology Newsletter at the 2025 Publisher Newsletter Awards! ✨ publishernewsletters.com/202…
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Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready. technologyreview.com/2025/04… @yannon_ @techreview
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming

Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming

Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready.

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Zelle is shutting down its app, but you probably don’t need to worry tcrn.ch/3XFDdxk
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