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Revolutionizing Visual Understanding with AI

Coactive, founded by Cody Coleman ’13 and William Gaviria Rojas ’13, uses AI to analyze unstructured visual data for faster, better business decisions. The platform helps companies process images, audio, and video at scale, empowering humans to work more efficiently and solve new problems.

Getty Copyright Case: Threat to AI Industry

Stability AI accused by Getty Images of training AI on copyrighted photos, sparking copyright case threat to generative AI industry. High court in London hears Getty's claims of copyright and trademark infringement against Stability AI for using its photography archives.

Challenges of AI in the Classroom

Music lecturer at a major UK university expresses concern over AI's impact on academia, suspecting students of using AI to write essays and music, leaving academics feeling powerless and unsure how to address the issue. The rapid rise of AI in education raises questions about academic integrity and the proper use of AI tools in universities, highlighting the challenges faced by educators in thi...

Predicting Trends: Linear Regression with JavaScript

Linear regression prediction system demoed using JavaScript on client side for simplicity. Trained model achieved 64.00% accuracy due to non-linear data structure. Renowned artist Robert McGinnis, known for iconic book covers and movie posters, recently passed away.

Tech Disparities in Future Healthcare

MIT's Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize winner, Annaliese Meyer, introduces B-Bots, synthetic bacterial mimics for gut health. Meyer's cautionary tale of a subscription-based health care model highlights potential harm in a for-profit system.

AI Ignites Europe: UK PM and NVIDIA CEO Lead the Way

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and U.K. PM Starmer kick off London Tech Week, signaling AI's integration into national policy and economy. The U.K. plans to invest £1 billion in AI research compute by 2030, showcasing a commitment to AI innovation and skills development.

US vs China: The AI Race

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner warns of 'gradual disempowerment to AI' due to generative AI disruption in jobs market. US targeting of academic research and international students seen as 'great gift' to China in AI competition.

Enhancing Data Consistency in AI with Amazon Nova

Text-to-SQL bridges the gap for non-technical users, providing precise, schema-specific queries for faster decision-making. Amazon Nova with Text-to-SQL outshines other AI approaches for accurate, reliable results from structured data.

UK High Court Cracks Down on AI Misuse

High court urges senior lawyers to address misuse of artificial intelligence in legal work. Fake case-law citations revealed in two recent cases, raising concerns about AI-generated content.

Streamline Audio Summarization with Amazon Bedrock and Whisper

Automated AI solutions like Open AI Whisper Large V3 Turbo in Amazon Bedrock Marketplace streamline transcription and redaction processes for sensitive data in recordings. Amazon Bedrock's integration with serverless technologies offers a seamless workflow for scalable content processing, ensuring compliance and data protection.

Enhance Video Search with AI on Amazon SageMaker

Semantic video search using large vision models enables users to search for video content with natural language queries, enhancing content discovery and moderation. Large vision models like CLIP allow for zero-shot transfer to various computer vision tasks, revolutionizing video search performance.