Stability AI’s newest model for image generation is Stable Cascade promises to be faster and more powerful than its industry-leading predecessor, Stable Diffusion, which is the basis of many other text-to-image generation AI tools. Stable Cascade can generate photos and give variations of the exact image it created, or try to...
The new, diversified version of AlphaZero includes multiple AI systems that trained independently and on a variety of situations. The algorithm that governs the overall system acts as a kind of virtual matchmaker, Zahavy said: one designed to identify which agent has the best chance of succeeding when it’s time to...
Tell ChatGPT the audience it's writing for. OpenAI via David Nield Produce Prompts for Other AI Engines ChatGPT is a very capable prompt engineer itself. If you ask it to come up with creative and effective inputs for artificial intelligence engines such as Dall-E and Midjourney, you'll get text you can...
How big is your concern that these constraints will spur China to spin up competitive AI chips? China has things that are competitive. Right. This isn’t data-center scale, but the Huawei Mate 60 smartphone that came out last year got some attention for its homegrown 7-nanometer chip. Really, really good company....
Nvidia surpassed Alphabet in market capitalization on Wednesday, only a day after it overtook Amazon. Bloomberg is reporting that the chip maker’s stock is now worth $1.83 trillion, beating the Google owner’s $1.82 market cap by a hair. This makes Nvidia the world’s fourth most valuable company in the wake of...
Cloud storage provider Dropbox has announced plans to reduce its global workforce by 16 percent in order to cut costs. The company aims to counter slowing cloud growth by reallocating resources towards building its AI offerings. Dropbox's CEO, Drew Houston, explained that the company's core cloud business growth has been impacted...
Google DeepMind and a consortium of 33 other research institutions have initiated a project called "Open-X Embodiment" to address a significant challenge in robotics. The challenge involves the extensive effort required to train machine learning models for each unique robot, task, and environment. Typically, specialized models are needed for individual robots,...
Google has announced plans to add generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its virtual assistant. A company executive told Reuters the AI would allow the assistant to do things like help people plan a trip or catch up on emails and then ask follow-up questions. The Alphabet subsidiary said during a...
Hackers are not invisible. Even the stealthiest and best camouflaged adversary leaves traces of their presence. The challenges for security teams are having skilled people that are equipped with the right tools they need to look in every corner of the business. Just as your home can be protected by alarms,...
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang said he expects the artificial intelligence boom will last well into next year and made what could be the largest single bet yet in the tech sector to back up his optimism. The company's sales forecast blew past Wall Street's expectations and it said it would buy...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has cut an unknown number of IT staff, including data architects and software engineers, as part of a larger round of personnel changes. In addition to IT, the changes also affect CBA's business banking and retail banking services divisions, according to the Finance Sector Union. The FSU...
Google wants to make its robots smarter with the release of the AI learning model Robotic Transformer (RT-2). RT-2 is the new version of what the company calls its vision-language-action (VLA) model. The model teaches robots to better recognize visual and language patterns to interpret instructions and infer what objects work...
Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X, is officially rolling out its ads revenue sharing program for creators. The company had given some creators payouts earlier this month, but now, users globally who meet the eligibility criteria can apply for the program from the monetization tab in settings. To...
Meta’s long-in-the-works mobile version of Horizon Worlds, its VR metaverse social platform, may finally launch soon, according to Friday’s Lowpass newsletter from Janko Roettgers. We’ve been aware of Meta working on a mobile version of Horizon Worlds, the company’s metaverse social platform that is currently only available on its Quest VR...
Global PC shipments fell during the second quarter of 2023, according to preliminary data from two analyst firms, but recent sales offered some indication of a market turnaround following recent historic declines. Shipments of desktop and laptop devices fell 16.6% year-on-year during the April-June quarter, according to the latest figures from Gartner,...
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has launched a new generative AI venture, dubbed xAI, to take on the likes of OpenAI — the maker of ChatGPT. “The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe,” the company said on its official website. Musk, who...
AGL Energy, an Australian company, has urged the federal government to set a better example in cybersecurity by strengthening its systems, achieving mandated maturity levels, and sharing threat intelligence with the community. In a submission to the Australian cyber security strategy discussion paper, AGL expressed concern about the government's difficulties in...
In May, the tech employment landscape in the US experienced mixed results. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) figures analyzed by IT industry group CompTIA, technology companies cut around 4,725 jobs, including both technical and non-technical positions. Additionally, job postings for open tech positions decreased from 300,000 in...
Nvidia, the leading semiconductor company, has announced strong second-quarter revenue forecasts, surpassing Wall Street estimates by over 50%. The company is ramping up its supply to meet the high demand for its artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, which are used in applications like ChatGPT. Following the announcement, Nvidia's shares soared by up to...
Operating system runtime validation and security firm Invary today announced it has raised $1.85 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Flyover Capital. The Lawrence, Kansas-based startup offers a free Runtime Integrity Score (RISe) service that helps organizations check the integrity of their systems to identify known vulnerabilities and hidden...
Meta plans to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram in Canada in response to legislation that would require internet giants to pay news publishers. The legislation, known as the Online News Act, was approved by the country’s Senate on Thursday. The law will force internet giants to negotiate compensation...
