A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots. U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns…
Key Facts Japan’s Nikkei hits record highs: Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 notched a third straight record close on Sep 25, rising 0.3% near ¥45,755 as investors rotated into lagging stocks [1]. One strategist noted that “stocks that had been left behind [in] the latest rally” were being snapped up, a healthy rotation that bodes well for…
A prototype app called Pixeltone developed by Adobe Research and the University of Michigan showed the possibility of using voice control and touch for photo editing. The top comment on the YouTube video demonstrating the capability is this one, left by a viewer 12 years ago: “Why so much hate? It isn’t for the “real”…
The debut of FC Como Women’s new Nike kits for the season included a 50-person crew for a photoshoot in a luxury London hotel, but when the Italian club unveiled an off-field apparel line for the brand, it did so entirely using artificial intelligence. Fashion AI School co-founder Olska Green, a traditional-turned-digital designer, created the…
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Sep 24 Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) shares climbed nearly 8% in Hong Kong on Wednesday, touching their highest level in close to four years. The rally came after CEO Eddie Wu said the company plans to expand its artificial intelligence spending beyond the previously announced $53 billion, or 380…
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says autonomous cars will act as a “catalyst” for EV adoption as Uber expands its global self-driving footprint. Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit The once-booming U.S. market for electric vehicles is slowing, but Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi isn’t fazed. Speaking today (Sept. 23) at the Concordia Summit…
Speaking at the ceremony of National Day of China at Chinese Embassy in Tehran, attended by a number of members of the Iranian Parliament, ambassadors of foreign countries, including Venezuela, Poland, Russia, Latin America, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua, South Africa, Japan, Vietnam, Oman, and also Iranian economic activists in China, former Iranian ambassadors in China,…
A record-breaking mega dam project in China’s far western Xinjiang region – built with the help of artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies – has begun storing water. The Dashixia Water Control Project, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Kumarak River in Xinjiang’s Aksu prefecture, started to store water on Saturday. Designed…
00:00 Speaker A it feels like we’re kind of talking, let’s say like the heavy industry part of the AI cycle, right? It’s big data centers, it’s a lot of chips. Um but you know, you’re thinking about things like robotics, automation, which kind of feel to me the more I think about it, more…