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China’s cheap AI designed to hook the world on its tech

6 months ago08 mins

Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question. Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text…

‘Has not yet been fully identified’

Cs news9 months ago05 mins

Rift Valley fever is infecting livestock in Africa, causing economic and health concerns, as reported by the Conversation. One mystery scientists are trying to solve is how the virus persists in the environment between major outbreaks. The Conversation stated that it’s “believed to survive in the environment within a ‘wild reservoir’ of animals — such…