AI & RoboticsNews

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 up to its own standards. Stable Diffusion 3 was first previewed back in February and the first open model version became…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

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 machine learning to get an estimate of what might be found in an underground brine in the Smackover Formation in southern…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI researchers develop new model that speeds up media generation by 50X

October 24, 2024
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 by 50 times compared to traditional diffusion models, generating images in nearly a 10th of a second compared to more than 5…
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DefenseNews

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…
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The Army’s black and gold PT uniform are here to stay

October 24, 2024
Soldiers might get more options for their PT gear, but the black and gold color scheme isn’t going anywhere, enlisted leaders said Monday. (Staff Sgt. Brittany Primavera/U.S. Army). Rumors of the demise of the Army’s black and gold PT gear were greatly exaggerated, and a redesign is not in the works, despite recent leadership comments suggesting otherwise. The Army on Monday clarified…
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