How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label
“The Hardest Part,” a new song from indie pop artist Washed Out, is all about love lost, among the most human of themes.
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people”
Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine's version of the reality show The Bachelor
Russian national Alexander Vinnik, one of the operators of crypto exchange BTC-e from 2011 to 2017, pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering
Vinnik was first arrested in 2017, but faced a lengthy extradition process that saw him spend time in Greece and France before being sent to the U.S.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane's AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects
There's a new WANTED poster in town... PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1: The smartphone ACCUSED OF: Stealing your attention, sanity and well-being REWARD …
Natron Energy starts production of sodium-ion batteries that it says charge and discharge 10x faster than lithium-ion, initially for use at data centers
Two years ago, sodium-ion battery pioneer Natron Energy was busy preparing its specially formulated sodium batteries for mass production.
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming
That is how you get widespread bias and disinformation. — #gigo Bluesky: @nzpom.com : These were some early examples of Grok testing that were accidentally released into production Kevin Veale / @kr...
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.
A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create “digital twins”, to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants
AI that can predict how specific humans will look, act and feel could do the jobs of fashion models, focus group members and clinical trial participants
Apple reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $90.75B, net income down 2% to $23.64B, and announces a $110B share buyback, its largest yet
Google employees have mostly ignored the DOJ's antitrust case, and some expect only small business tweaks and some fines; closing arguments concluded on May 3
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A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first...
Biden is expected to sign the REPORT Act next week; the bipartisan bill targets child sextortion online through new CSAM reporting requirements and more
Jordan DeMay, a 17-year-old who died by suicide in 2022, is one of a growing number of teens targeted by financial sextortion.
Microsoft outlines security principles and goals tied to executive compensation packages, following a scathing US Cyber Safety Review Board report in April 2024
expanding Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative Tom Warren / The Verge : Read Satya Nadella's Microsoft memo on putting security first Tom Krazit / Runtime : Microsoft wants to be judged on security An...
Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity's problems
Philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the idea superintelligent AI could erase humanity. His new book imagines a world in which algorithms have solved every problem. X: @terrorproforma and @wired X: @...
As chipmakers move into or expand in the region around Germany's Dresden, skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers, and end customers are needed
Skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers and end customers are needed — DRESDEN, Germany/TAIPEI … LinkedIn: Jonas Sundqvist LinkedIn: Jonas Sundqvist : Here is a nice story of Nikkei ...
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects' locations and other details
Cybercheck's founder has said the software tops 90% accuracy. Defense lawyers have said he lied under oath about his expertise … Threads: @lllafalce , @hashimwarren , and @lavishtantrums . Mastodon: ...
Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11%
Last year's doldrums are in the rearview thanks to AI — If you were concerned about slowing cloud infrastructure growth for a time in 2023 …
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal's Krutrim launches its developer offerings, including cloud infrastructure access, and an Android app for its eponymous AI chatbot
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Filing: CRM software maker Freshworks acquires Connecticut-based Device42, which helps companies manage their IT infrastructure and had raised $38.5M, for $230M
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. Dom Nicastro / CMSWire.com : Major Shift at Freshworks: New CEO and $230M Tech Acquisition The Hindu BusinessLine : Freshworks acquires Device42 f...
Google updates its ad policy to ban the promotion of services that generate, distribute, or store synthetic sexually explicit content, starting May 30, 2024
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Global smartphone market grew 6% YoY to 296.9M units in Q1; Samsung recaptured the top spot with a 20% market share; Apple shipments fell 13% but ASP grew 2%
Sources: Swedish PE firm EQT acquires a “significant majority” stake in WSO2, valuing the enterprise API and identity management company at “more than” $600M
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A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates
Sara Fischer / Axios : X: @sarafischer . LinkedIn: Digimentors and Peter Csathy See also Mediagazer X: Sara Fischer / @sarafischer : Unlike music and book publishers, news outlets are struggling to p...
CSET: global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022; Chinese Academy of Sciences was the top producer of highly cited AI papers, followed by Google
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SVB agrees to sell its VC arm SVB Capital, which manages ~$9.8B in assets, to a new entity backed by Brookfield and Sequoia Heritage for $340M in cash
In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press : X: @nicktuell See also Mediagazer X: Nick Tuell / @nicktuell : As someone who tracks political ads in Ohio, this needs to be addressed. Anti-democracy ads ha...
Sources: Fei-Fei Li raised a seed round for a “spatial intelligence” startup using human-like visual data processing to create AI capable of advanced reasoning
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