New AWS service lets customers rent Nvidia GPUs for quick AI projects

November 1, 2023

More and more companies are running large language models, which require access to GPUs. The most popular of those by far are from Nvidia, making them expensive and often in short supply. Renting a long-term instance from a cloud provider when you only need access to these costly resources for a single job, doesn’t necessarily […]

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Google launches generative AI tools for product imagery to U.S. advertisers

November 1, 2023

Following Amazon’s adoption of generative AI for advertisers last week, Google today is launching a set of generative AI product imagery tools for advertisers in the U.S. Via the new, AI-powered Product Studio, merchants will be able to leverage text-to-image AI capabilities to create new product imagery for free, simply by typing in a prompt […]

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Lawmakers say Costco’s decision to continue selling banned China surveillance tech is ‘puzzling’

November 1, 2023

Two U.S. lawmakers have asked retail giant Costco why it continues to sell surveillance equipment made by Lorex, despite warnings of cybersecurity risks and links to human rights abuses. The bipartisan letter dated October 31, sent by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ, 4th) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), said Costco’s continued sale of Lorex products is […]

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Humans at the heart of generative AI

November 1, 2023
It’s a stormy holiday weekend, and you’ve just received the last notification you want in the busiest travel week of the year: the first leg of your flight is significantly delayed. You might expect this means you’ll be sitting on hold with airline customer service for half an hour. But this time, the process looks…