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Guiding Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
Zitong Lan, Yiduo Hao, Mingmin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21625

Guiding Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
Audio editing plays a central role in VR/AR immersion, virtual conferencing, sound design, and other interactive media. However, recent generative audio editing models depend on template-like instruction formats and are restricted to mono-channel audio. These models fail to deal with declarative audio editing, where the user declares what the desired outcome should be, while leaving the details of editing operations to the system. We introduce SmartDJ, a novel framework for stereo audio editing…

How The Minnesota Star Tribune bolstered its shoe-leather reporting by using ChatGPT to analyze handwritten Faux Cyrillic journal entries of a mass shooter (Tom Scheck/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/minnesota-star-tribun…

How the Minnesota Star Tribune used AI to bolster its shoe-leather reporting to background a mass shooter - Poynter
A team of journalists relentlessly tracked the shooter’s digital and paper trail. But AI provided deeper insight into her thoughts before the shooting.

Adobe launches its Premiere video editing software on iPhone for the first time; general editing is free, but Adobe charges for credits to generate AI content (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
Saikat Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21329 https://…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
High-quality answers in technical Q&A platforms like Stack Overflow (SO) are crucial as they directly influence software development practices. Poor-quality answers can introduce inefficiencies, bugs, and security vulnerabilities, and thus increase maintenance costs and technical debt in production software. To improve content quality, SO allows collaborative editing, where users revise answers to enhance clarity, correctness, and formatting. Several studies have examined rejected edits and ide…

Yes. We are.
The next epidemic *will affect you* before the mass media has received any mention of it from the Federal government.
It will be like AIDS except that the ignored dead will be everyone instead of just gays, drug injectors, and Haitians.
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Vaccine disputes and agency departures put U.S. at risk, a former CDC official says
Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill will be named interim director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a letter Kennedy sent to CDC staff, which was obtained by NPR. The decision comes after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Susan Monarez, …

Whee #KDEnlive is available for macOS and even Apple Silicon CPUs. During Project Rendering it seems make use of all the CPU core at least. Not the GPU though.

https://kdenlive.org

Upgraded image editing in Gemini is jaw dropping ,
#ai

Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade
Transform images in amazing new ways with updated native image editing in the Gemini app.

Let the SwiftUI graph editing begin!

Anthropic adds context editing and a memory tool to the Claude API, allowing AI agents to handle long-running tasks without frequently hitting context limits (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management

Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform
We're introducing new capabilities for managing your agents’ context on the Claude Developer Platform: context editing and the memory tool.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution plans to end its print edition at the end of 2025, despite being profitable; AJC has 115K paid subscribers, 75K digital-only (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/business/media/atlanta-journal-constitution-print-edition.html
http://mediagazer.com/250828/p7#a250828p7