Lightricks, the company behind popular creative apps like Facetune and VideoLeap, announced today the release of its most powerful AI video generation model to date. The LTX Video 13-billion-parameter model (LTXV-13B) generates high-quality AI video up to 30 times faster than comparable models while running on consumer-grade hardware rather than expensive enterprise GPUs.
The model introduces…
Meet the new king of AI coding: Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition dethrones Claude 3.7 Sonnet
May 7, 2025
There’s a new king on the throne of AI coding models: Today, Google’s DeepMind AI research unit unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro “I/O” edition, a new version of its hit Gemini 2.5 Pro multimodal large language model (LLM) released back in March that DeepMind CEO Demis…
Generative AI tools have surpassed cybersecurity as the top budget priority for global IT leaders heading into 2025, according to a comprehensive new study released today by Amazon Web Services.
The AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision…
Visa launches ‘Intelligent Commerce’ platform, letting AI agents swipe your card—safely, it says
May 6, 2025
Visa has launched a new platform designed to let artificial intelligence agents purchase products on behalf of users, effectively giving AI access to people’s credit cards — with strict guardrails. The system, called Visa Intelligent Commerce, was unveiled last Wednesday at the company’s Global Product Drop event in San Francisco and enables AI assistants to not only recommend products but…
Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face
May 6, 2025
Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world in recent years thanks to the stock market noticing how much demand there is for graphics processing units (GPUs), the powerful chips Nvidia makes that are used to render graphics in video games but also…
Enterprise AI in 2025 is moving from experimentation to implementation and deployments are evolving from AI assistants to AI agents. That’s the primary theme of the IBM Think 2025 conference, which gets underway today. At the event, IBM is announcing an extensive list of…
While over 20 vendors announced agentic AI-based security agents, apps and platforms at RSAC 2025, the most insightful news from the conference is a rare, encouraging trend for security leaders. For the first time in three years, overall cybersecurity effectiveness has improved.
Scale Venture Partners (SVP) recently released the 2025 Cybersecurity Perspectives Report, which shared that the…
Question: What product should use machine learning (ML)?
Project manager answer: Yes.
Jokes aside, the advent of generative AI has upended our understanding of what use cases lend themselves best to ML. Historically, we have always leveraged ML for repeatable, predictive…
Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, mountains or oceans. Today, we are entering a new kind of migration — not across…
Whenever a patient gets a CT scan at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), the resulting images are automatically sent off to the cardiology department, analyzed by AI and assigned a cardiac risk score.
In just a few months, thanks to a simple algorithm, AI has flagged several patients at high cardiovascular risk. The CT scan doesn’t have to be related to the heart; the patient…
