Image Credits: PexelsApple is under pressure to prove it still has its edge, despite unmet promises to enhance iPhones with generative AI, as competitors surge ahead with the tech.Apple will unveil its latest plans for its popular devices and the software behind them at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), starting Monday in Silicon...
Image Credits:Cheng Xin / Contributor / Getty ImagesAMD’s recent acquisition may weaken Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware space. On Wednesday, chipmaker AMD announced it had acquired Brium, a stealth-mode startup focused on AI software optimization. Financial terms were not disclosed.According to a sparse blog post on Brium’s website, the company develops machine learning...
Image Credits: PixabayBuilding advanced robotics projects at home is gradually getting simpler. This week, Hugging Face, an AI development platform, introduced SmolVLA, an open-source robotics model.According to the company, SmolVLA—trained on community-contributed datasets with compatible licenses—surpasses much larger robotics models in both simulated and real-world settings.In a blog post, Hugging Face states that...
Image Credit: PixabayLast month, Google announced SynthID Detector, a tool that can identify AI-generated text, images, videos, and audio. There are some limitations. Currently, the tool is only accessible to "early testers" via a waitlist.Also, SynthID mainly works with content generated by Google AI services like Gemini (text), Veo (video), Imagen (images), or Lyria...
Image Credits: PixabayArtificial intelligence is all around us—crafting emails, suggesting films, even powering self-driving cars—but what about the invisible AI? Who (or what) is working in the background creating the algorithms that operate out of sight? And how much can we really trust them?We interviewed two experts from UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science...
Image Credits: TechcrunchThe wave of data company acquisitions persisted on Monday as Snowflake moved to acquire Crunchy Data.Late Monday, cloud data platform Snowflake revealed its plan to acquire Crunchy Data, a partner specializing in Postgres databases. A source familiar with the transaction estimated its value at approximately $250 million.Deal Terms Undisclosed as Snowflake Remains...
Image Credits:Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto / Getty ImagesMicrosoft Bing announced Monday the launch of Bing Video Creator in its app, allowing users to generate videos from text prompts using OpenAI’s Sora model.Sora Becomes Freely Accessible for the First Time via BingAlthough OpenAI has restricted Sora’s video generation to paying users, its integration with Bing now makes...
Image Credits: PixabayLast week, Google quietly launched an app that enables users to run various open-source AI models from the Hugging Face platform directly on their smartphones.Named Google AI Edge Gallery, the app is currently available on Android, with an iOS version on the way. It lets users browse, download, and run supported models...
Image Credits: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA prominent large language model shows patterns of behavior that mirror a key aspect of human psychology: cognitive dissonance.A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports that OpenAI’s GPT-4o shows a surprising tendency: it seeks to maintain alignment between its stated attitudes and its...
Acclaimed digital therapist Woebot is shutting down Created with DALL-EA pioneering AI therapy chatbot is scheduled to close on June 30, with experts suggesting that the shutdown reflects the difficulties of providing effective mental health care and managing safety concerns in the digital realm.Woebot: innovation and recognition in digital therapyWoebot, first introduced in 2017 as...
