While the Hollywood writers’ strike has officially ended with new protections against AI in screenwriting, there is no such luck for their creative counterparts, the actors, whose union the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) published a statement today saying talks with the film and TV industry CEOs have broken down, after the CEOs reportedly…
The edge of the network isn’t always where you find the most powerful computers. But it is the place where you can find the most ubiquitous technology.
The edge means things like smartphones, desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and other smart gadgets that operate on their own…
Sparta, a startup that provides live market intelligence and forecasting insight for commodity traders, has announced a series A funding round of $17.5 million. The funding round was led by technology venture capital firm FirstMark, alongside existing shareholder…
Google adds AI image generation to Search — but there’s a catch
October 14, 2023
Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) image generator for the masses is here … sort of.
Hot on the heels of Adobe’s new Firefly 2 AI image generator, and OpenAI releasing its new DALL-E 3 image generator broadly within ChatGPT Plus (and offering it through investor/customer Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator), Google this week announced it, too, was putting a text-to-image generation AI…
Creative software giant Adobe has been walking a bit of a tightrope when it comes to generative AI: while it has embraced the technology to release a host of new features for its users, such as the well-received Generative Fill in Photoshop and Firefly text-to-image…
The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga.
As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the…
The second annual HOLL·AI·WOOD AI Film and AI Games Festival took place in San Francisco on Tuesday night and offered us a preview of the future for both passive and interactive entertainment.
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studios and an organizer of the event, said more than 300 attendees from the world of AI, cinema and gaming came to the event at the Alamo Drafthouse cinema. I attended and was…
Customer insights platform Pathlight plans to rely on AI agents to extract strategic insights from large amounts of customer conversations in a way no human could manage alone, it announced this week. However, bringing this ambitious agent-powered vision to life posed…
As Meta, Character AI place bets on ‘fun’ chatbots, problems lurk behind AI-generated smiles
October 12, 2023
In a new Forbes report, high-flying AI chatbot startup Character AI, which is rumored to be in early funding talks at a whopping $5 billion valuation, is bringing its conversational characters to a new group chat function that allows users to talk to their favorite celebs…
Ottawa, Ontario (CAN)-based AI governance firm NuEnergy.ai has secured a U.S. patent on its Machine Trust Index (MTI) methodology, a standardized measurement for artificial intelligence (AI) oversight.
The milestone comes as competition intensifies in the complex, quickly evolving field of AI visibility and explainability, giving NuEnergy an additional bragging right and legal moat. Its MTI…
