Inflation Has Slowed to Its Lowest Rate in Months, Which ‘Will Keep the Fed on Hold,’ According to Leading Economic Experts
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed the Consumer Price Index for February on Wednesday.
Gemini Robotics uses Google’s top language model to make robots more useful
Google DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize across tasks. All three are things that robots have struggled to do until now. The team hopes…
Everyone’s on Their Phones — Why You Need a Mobile-First Communications Strategy
Businesses must embrace mobile-first strategies and use 5G, AI and data-driven insights to deliver secure and real-time customer experiences.
OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation
Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which has steadfastly shepherded the project through its many ups and downs. Right now, with the […]
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Dapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents
Back in 2019, Microsoft open-sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental building blocks for supporting AI agents built-in from the outset. That’s because one of Dapr’s core features is […]
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Tech Giants Are Pouring Billions Into AI Data Centers — Are We Ready for the Real Estate Shift That Comes With It?
A silent land rush is underway — AI giants like OpenAI and Meta are buying up real estate at an unprecedented scale. But why, and what does it mean for the future of property markets?
Walmart Is Paying Some Delivery Drivers to Verify Their Identities. Here’s Why.
Some Spark delivery drivers have been asked to bring their driver’s license to a nearby Walmart store.
Sakana claims its AI paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that
Japanese startup Sakana said that its AI generated the first peer-reviewed scientific publication. But while the claim isn’t untrue, there are significant caveats to note. The debate swirling around AI and its role in the scientific process grows fiercer by the day. Many researchers don’t believe AI is quite ready to serve as a “co-scientist,” […]
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Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content
Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Marey, the model was built in collaboration with Asteria, a newer AI animation studio. Marey was trained on “owned or fully licensed” source […]
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Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model
Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app’s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month. The launch comes as Snap unveiled an […]
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Garantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law
Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India’s Kerala on Tuesday under the country’s extradition law.
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