
Tech Meme - 44 min 34 sec ago
Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Runway launches Gen 4.5, a new text-to-video AI model that produces HD videos from written prompts and excels at physics; Gen 4.5 tops Video Arena's leaderboard — Artificial intelligence startup Runway on Monday announced Gen 4.5, a new video model that outperforms similar models from Google and OpenAI in an independent benchmark.

Tech Meme - 59 min 35 sec ago
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times : OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and plans to embed AI agents in its companies, which already includes an accounting and IT business — The move by the parent company of ChatGPT is meant to help imbue Thrive Holdings' accounting and I.T. services companies with artificial intelligence tools.

New York Times - 1 hour 54 min ago
Sam Altman of OpenAI. The company is betting that taking a stake in Thrive Holdings, which is incubating services companies, will showcase how businesses should adopt artificial intelligence.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 hour 54 min ago
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); i n just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which could hardly mimic coherence, to systems like GPT-5 that can reason and engage in substantive dialogue. And now early prototypes of AI agents that can navigate codebases or browse the web point towards an entirely new...

The Guardian - 3 hours 24 min ago
Roadmap focuses on technology's economic benefits' and says existing laws will cover the fast-growing new technology Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has decided against legislation to manage artificial intelligence, with a new national roadmap emphasising Labor's focus on the technology's economic benefits and plans to "unlock" vast datasets held by private companies and the public service to help train AI models. Supporting...

Tech Meme - 3 hours 49 min ago
Reuters : ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs — Chinese tech giant ByteDance said on Monday it is launching an artificial intelligence voice control tool that will debut …...

NPR - 4 hours 53 min ago
Artificial intelligence is changing how people shop, with consumers using AI tools, like Google's Gemini and Open AI's Chat GPT, to research items and find the best deals.

NPR - 4 hours 54 min ago
Using artificial intelligence to identify Congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.

The Guardian - 5 hours 2 min ago
Consultancy's move to embrace artificial intelligence follows Disney's use of the term imagineers' Business live latest updates Accenture has reportedly begun calling its 800,000 employees "reinventors", as the consultancy tries to position itself as a leader in artificial intelligence. The consultancy's chief executive, Julie Sweet, has already started referring to staff by the new label and the business is now pushing for the term to be used more widely, the Financial Times...

Tech Meme - 9 hours 9 min ago
Tim Balk / New York Times : New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills — The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.

Nature - 14 hours 54 min ago
Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology's use.

NY Post - 15 hours 52 min ago
New York's frontline nurses and leaders are blasting the city's hospital system for rolling out artificial intelligence tools they say are jeopardizing patient safety - and their own jobs.

Deadline Hollywood - 17 hours 2 min ago
Though James Cameron who sits on the board of Stability AI has expressed positive sentiments about artificial intelligence usage in filmmaking, he calls the prospect of the technology replacing actors “horrifying” and maintains its implementation will inevitably raise the bar for our standards on human-made art. In an extended interview with CBS Sunday […]...

NBC News - 23 hours 49 min ago
Surveying the state of America's artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned...