The number of platforms being released to help enterprises integrate AI agents into their technology stack is not slowing down as the year winds down. Work management platform Asana already has an AI agent service, but with its new AI Studio feature, the company wants its customers to think about custom AI agents as part of their larger workflow.
AI Studio lets users build workflows on Asana and…
Stable Diffusion 3.5 debuts as Stability AI aims to improve open models for generating images
October 28, 2024
Stability AI is out today with a major update for its text to image generative AI technology with the debut of Stable Diffusion 3.5. A key goal for the new update is raise the bar and improve upon Stability AI’s last major update, which the company admitted didn’t live…
Tesla is already in ‘full discount mode’ in the US despite being only a few weeks into the quarter – just as the CEO claims that Tesla’s sales are at an “all-time high”.
Generally, the best time to buy a Tesla is at the end of a quarter.
Due to its…
GM outpaces US rivals in Q3, even with fewer EV incentives
October 24, 2024
General Motors (GM) continued its run this year, topping Wall Street’s estimates again in the third quarter. After outpacing Ford and Hyundai in Q3, GM is now the second-best-selling EV maker in the US despite offering fewer incentives. With a record 32,095 electric vehicles sold in the third quarter, up 60% from Q3 2023, General Motors shares of the US EV market neared double-digits.
“General…
Arkansas may be sitting on 19 million tons of lithium
October 24, 2024
Researchers now estimate how much “white gold” may be found in southern Arkansas’s vast lithium reserves: up to 19 million tons, or enough to meet the projected 2030 world demand nine times over.
United States Geological Survey (USGS) researchers used water testing and…
OpenAI scientist Noam Brown stuns TED AI Conference: ’20 seconds of thinking worth 100,000x more data’
October 24, 2024
Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at OpenAI, took the stage at the TED AI conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to deliver a powerful speech on the future of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on OpenAI’s new o1 model and its potential to transform…
Non-English game developers may soon be looking toward AI as a means to shorten localization times. In an interview with 4Gamer (translated by Siliconera) at Tokyo Game Show, Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo posited the idea of using artificial intelligence to more quickly localize games developed in the Japanese language. Kondo took the stage after a demonstration of ELLA, software created…
A pair of researchers at OpenAI researchers has published a paper describing a new type of model — specifically, a new type of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) — that increases the speed at which multimedia including images, video, and audio can be generated by AI…
Strike, fixed-price contracts leave Boeing defense bleeding cash
October 24, 2024
Boeing has lost billions of dollars on the fixed-price KC-46 program, and a nearly six-week machinist strike has heightened the refueling tanker’s problems. (Airman Lauren Torres/Air Force)
Boeing’s ongoing problems with a crippling machinist strike and costly…
Norway to develop new NASAMS radar with Raytheon and Kongsberg
October 24, 2024
The Norwegian Army fires a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System in the country against a simulated threat during exercise Formidable Shield in 2023. (Courtesy of the Royal Norwegian Navy). MILAN — The Norwegian Ministry of Defense will co-develop a new radar in partnership with Raytheon and Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace to boost the capabilities of the National Advanced…
