Portalis.AI has emerged from stealth mode to unveil its avatars that are aimed at enhancing interaction and communication between humans and AI.
The Austin, Texas-based startup has created AI characters who can hold a conversation with you as well as their lifelike, fully interactive, and animated digital avatars.
With the world increasingly intertwined with AI and digital beings, Portalis.AI is…
Exclusive: Stability AI brings advanced 3D and image fine-tuning to Stable Diffusion
November 2, 2023
Stability AI announced today several new enhancements to its Stable Diffusion platform. These updates not only offer exciting new capabilities for text-to-image, but also venture into the realm of 3D content creation.
The most notable enhancement is the brand new Stable 3D…
VentureBeat recently sat down (virtually) with Michael Sherwood, chief innovation and technology officer for Las Vegas, to gain insights into how he uses the latest AI and endpoint security technologies to secure the city.
Sherwood oversees the city’s cybersecurity…
Midjourney, Stability AI and DeviantArt win a victory in copyright case by artists — but the fight continues
November 2, 2023
The contentious issue of whether AI art generators violent copyright — since they are by and large trained on human artists’ work, in many cases without their direct affirmative consent, compensation, or even knowledge — has taken a step forward to being settled in the U.S. today.
U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick, of the Northern District of California, today filed a decision in a…
Coinbase Launches Leveraged Crypto Futures for US Traders With Nano-Sized BTC and ETH Contracts – Bitcoin News
November 2, 2023
Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) introduced regulated leveraged crypto futures for its U.S. customers Wednesday, now available to Coinbase Advanced users. The trading platform currently offers nano-sized contracts at one-hundredth of a bitcoin and one-tenth of an…
UK Government's Ambition to Make Britain a Global Crypto Hub 'Remains Steadfast' – Regulation Bitcoin News
November 2, 2023
Britain’s Economic Secretary to the Treasury Andrew Griffith MP has reaffirmed the government’s ambition to make the U.K. a global hub for crypto asset technologies. He stressed that in order to realize this ambition, “we must make the U.K. a place where cryptoasset…
Paypal Achieves FCA Registration in the UK, Paving the Way for Crypto Services Resumption in 2024 – Bitcoin News
November 2, 2023
The payments giant Paypal has successfully achieved registration with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom, a fact verified by the FCA’s website on October 31. This move comes shortly after Paypal’s temporary cessation of crypto purchases within the U.K., although the company pledged to reinstate these services at the start of 2024.
FCA Greenlights Paypal to Engage in…
NASA’s Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter’s orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425 kilometers) from the surface of the small asteroid Dinkinesh, researchers have used…
See SWOT Mission’s Unprecedented View of Global Sea Levels
November 2, 2023
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is sending down tantalizing views of Earth’s water, including a global composite of sea surface heights. The satellite collected the data visualized above during SWOT’s first full 21-day science orbit, which it…
Startup OpenAI has steadily improved its popular AI chatbot ChatGPT since its release nearly a year ago on November 30, 2022, but the latest update takes everything that came before and seemingly combines it into one, according to users for whom the experience has already rolled out.
Multiple users have taken to social media to share an update message to their ChatGPT accounts that reads:
“Your…
