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Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public

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Anyone can now check whether an image, video, or audio file was created by Google's AI or its partners. Google has opened its SynthID Detector to the public. The tool spots invisible watermarks embedded in content from models like Gemini, Veo, or Lyria and supports JPG, PNG, MP4, and MP3. SynthID isn't a universal AI detector. It only flags content carrying a SynthID watermark. Other detection systems have the same limitation, typically only verifying their own provider's watermarks.

OpenAI, Nvidia, and Kakao also use SynthID for media. For text detection, OpenAI developed its own system. Apple is expected to join soon, according to Google. SynthID detection is also built into Google Search, the Gemini app, and Chrome, where Google says one million verification requests come in daily. The company claims more than 180 billion watermarked images and videos to date.

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Nvidia's RTX Spark hits order books, taking on Apple's Macs

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Nvidia's RTX Spark superchip for Windows PCs moved from stage demos to order books on October 7, as pre-orders opened for Windows laptops built to rival Apple's unified-memory Macs at running large AI models locally. Reuters said cracking the Windows PC market could help Nvidia…

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Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999

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Microsoft’s high-end AI mini PC for developers starts shipping in November.

Microsoft’s Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now directly, and slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It’s pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other components.

The Dev Box’s flat, 3D-printed anodized aluminum chassis doubles as a heatsink and resembles the top vents on an Xbox Series X. It’s launching alongside the new Surface Laptop Ultra and runs on Nvidia’s Arm-based RTX Spark platform and 128GB of unified memory. With that much memory, along with a 100-watt thermal envelope and Nvidia’s Tensor cores, you could probably get an impressive gaming experience on the Dev Box. But as its name suggests, it’s mainly aimed at developers. It’s optimized for running local AI, including “models exceeding 120B parameters,” for tasks like testing AI models, prototyping AI agents, or running AI coding tools on-device.

The Dev Box is also one of Microsoft’s Project Zenith devices, so it ships with a developer-optimized Windows 11 Pro setup and some preinstalled developer tools, including Visual Studio Code, Git, GitHub CLI, GitHub Copilot, WSL, Python, and Node.