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  1. TOOL · Engadget English(EN) · · [2 sources]

    Insta360's Mic Pro has three built-in mics and looks like a chunky pin badge

    Insta360 has released the Mic Pro, a wireless microphone featuring a unique e-ink display that can show custom images or logos. This mic boasts a three-microphone array with AI-powered noise reduction and offers three distinct polar patterns for versatile audio capture. It includes 32-bit floating internal recording to prevent clipping and has 32GB of built-in storage for independent audio backup. The Mic Pro is priced at $100 for a single unit or $330 for a kit including two mics, a receiver, and a charging case. AI

    Insta360's Mic Pro has three built-in mics and looks like a chunky pin badge

    IMPACT Enhances audio recording quality and customization for creators with AI-powered noise reduction and unique display options.

  2. TOOL · Forbes — Innovation English(EN) ·

    Insta360 Launches Wireless Microphone To Solve Pro Audio’s Pain Points

    Insta360 has released its new Mic Pro wireless microphone system, designed for content creators and filmmakers. The system features two industry-first technologies: a customizable E-Ink display for identifying transmitters and a triple microphone array that can emulate different polar patterns. It also includes AI-powered noise cancellation via an onboard NPU chip and 32-bit float internal recording to prevent clipping and preserve audio quality. AI

    Insta360 Launches Wireless Microphone To Solve Pro Audio’s Pain Points

    IMPACT Enhances audio capture for content creators with AI-powered noise cancellation and advanced recording capabilities.

  3. TOOL · arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) English(EN) ·

    Ascend-RaBitQ: Heterogeneous NPU-CPU Acceleration of Billion-Scale Similarity Search with 1-bit Quantization

    Researchers have developed Ascend-RaBitQ, a novel system designed to accelerate billion-scale vector similarity search by leveraging heterogeneous NPU-CPU architectures. This approach decouples coarse ranking on NPUs with 1-bit quantized vectors from fine ranking on CPUs with full-precision vectors, overcoming limitations of traditional CPU-based methods. The system demonstrates significant improvements in index construction speed and throughput compared to CPU-only baselines, showcasing promising scalability on distributed multi-NPU systems. AI

    IMPACT Enables more efficient and scalable vector similarity search, crucial for large-scale AI applications.

  4. SIGNIFICANT · Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points English(EN) · · [2 sources]

    Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

    Google has unveiled its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), featuring two specialized chips: TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference. These new chips are designed to enhance the capabilities of AI models, particularly for agentic workloads that require complex reasoning and multi-step execution. The TPU 8t aims to significantly reduce model development time, offering a substantial increase in compute performance and memory bandwidth compared to previous generations, while the TPU 8i focuses on low-latency inference critical for agent interactions. AI

    Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era

    IMPACT Accelerates AI development and deployment by providing specialized, high-performance hardware for both training and inference.