Disney and Universal sue AI firm for copyright infringement, accusing Midjourney of creating unauthorized copies of iconic characters like Darth Vader and Elsa. Lawsuit filed in LA federal court labels Midjourney's image generator as a "bottomless pit of plagiarism."
AI is transforming retail and CPG industries, with global brands like L’Oréal, LVMH, and Nestlé utilizing AI agents and 3D digital twins to enhance product lifecycle and marketing strategies. Nestlé partners with NVIDIA and Accenture to create AI-powered digital twins for e-commerce, while LVMH uses NVIDIA Omniverse for content variation production, revolutionizing luxury product promotion.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang highlights Europe's AI advancements, including the powerful GB200 NVL72 system and partnerships for AI infrastructure. Quantum meets classical with NVIDIA CUDA-Q on Denmark's Gefion supercomputer, accelerating hybrid AI and quantum engineering in the region.
MIT and IBM researchers improve LLMs for travel planning by combining them with algorithms and solvers to create user-friendly AI travel brokers. The new technique can identify constraints, propose alternatives, and help users develop realistic and logical travel plans efficiently.
Apple's research paper challenges the capabilities of large language models, revealing their limitations in reasoning tasks. Gary Marcus's critical analysis exposes the overhyped abilities of AI models like ChatGPT and Claude.
AI, like Anthropic's Claude, surprises skeptics with its usefulness in providing emotionally intelligent responses to personal dilemmas, making it a popular tool for various daily queries. Despite initial doubts, AI is now widely embraced for its versatile problem-solving capabilities, challenging preconceived notions about its limitations.
UK science and technology secretary Peter Kyle, a dyslexic who uses AI, advocates for AI to enhance education for dyslexic children. He emphasizes the need for AI to transform education and assess students' abilities for the future.
MIT professor Munther Dahleh created the Institute for Data, Systems and Society to address societal challenges using AI and data science. His book, “Data, Systems, and Society,” details the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the concept of "the triangle" in solving complex problems.
Generative AI is increasingly used to boost efficiency and innovation in various industries, but costs can escalate. Amazon Bedrock offers high-performing models and cost optimization techniques for building generative AI applications.
UK PM pledges funding for AI infrastructure at London Tech Week, announces AI training for all civil servants in England and Wales. Keir Starmer emphasizes tech's potential for a "better future" for children, as new AI tool is introduced to transform planning system.
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...
WPP leads AI-generated campaigns with Meta allowing firms to create ads. AI rapidly transforms global advertising, with WPP investing £300m yearly in data and tech.
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.
Apple researchers discover limitations in advanced AI models, raising doubts about industry's pursuit of more powerful systems. Large reasoning models face accuracy collapse when dealing with complex problems, according to Apple's paper.
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.