DefenseNews

Russian Navy ships visit China ahead of joint drills

BEIJING — A pair of Russian Navy ships are visiting China as the countries reaffirm their military ties amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Cold War-era frigates Gromkiy and Otlichnyy arrived in the financial hub of Shanghai, China’s largest city and biggest port, on Wednesday for a seven-day visit. Following the port call, the ships will conduct joint drills with their Chinese counterparts…
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US Army taps RTX for $117 million infrared sensor deal

WASHINGTON — RTX, until recently known as Raytheon Technologies, won a contract to manufacture forward-looking infrared packages for installation aboard U.S. Army tanks and other vehicles. The low-rate initial production deal for 3rd Generation FLIR B-Kit sensors is worth…
AI & RoboticsNews

Deepdub Go brings AI localization to indie games and content creators

Deepdub, an AI-based audiovisual dubbing and language localization company, has announced the launch of Deepdub Go, a way for creators to dub in 65 languages. The new AI-powered audio-video localization and creation platform is aimed at indie game studios, advertising agencies, online learning platforms, and content creators. Deepdub Go enables creators to use their own voice for dubbing and to…
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AI & RoboticsNews

VersusLM generates AI prediction games for virtually any media

VersusGame has announced the launch of VersusLM, an AI tech that enables it to create prediction games for just about any media. The new AI system is directly integrated with Los Angeles-based VersusGame’s flagship product, MiniGames, which will allow VersusGame customers and partners to generate contextually relevant content from any subject, topic, editorial, or media format without any…
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Generative AI’s secret sauce — data scraping— comes under attack

Web scraping for massive amounts of data can arguably be described as the secret sauce of generative AI. After all, AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Bard and LLaMA can spit out coherent text because they were trained on massive corpora of data, mostly scraped from the internet. And as the size of today’s LLMs like GPT-4 have ballooned to hundreds of billions of tokens, so has the hunger for…
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