AI & Robotics

OUTOFHAND: The world’s first luxury XR brand elevating artists “Nail art is the new sneakers,” declares Samuel Deutsch, CEO and Founder of OUTOFHAND (OOH), capturing the essence of a seismic shift in the $23.4 billion global nail industry, projected to climb to $32.8 billion within the next five years.  Leading the charge in the intersection of technology and style, OUTOFHAND announces its…

Exactly a year ago, I published an AI Beat column that detailed 5 AI stories I was waiting to cover in 2023. Thanks to what I like to call a constant ‘tsunami’ of AI news in the wake of OpenAI’s November 2022 release of ChatGPT, I didn’t have to wait long: From GPT-4 and the EU AI Act to the battle for AI search, open vs. closed AI, and the hunger for training data and computing power, I…

A massive open-source AI dataset, LAION-5B, which has been used to train popular AI text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, contains at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found — with thousands more instances suspected. The Stanford Internet Observatory is a program of the Cyber Policy…

Just yesterday, I asked if Google would ever get an AI product release right on the first try. Consider that asked and answered — at least, going by the looks of its latest research. This week, Google showed off VideoPoet, a new large language model (LLM) designed for a variety of video generation tasks from a team of 31 researchers at Google Research. The fact that the Google Research team…