ByteDance is preparing an AI model for real-time spatial video generation, with founder Zhang Yiming personally overseeing the work and a launch possible as soon as next month, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to…
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. He also called on the countries that host AI development and sit in its supply chains to…
A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia…
Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in wh…
Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development tools, stronger testing frameworks, and more mature deployment systems have shortened the distance between an idea and a working product. But faster delivery also raises the …
ItalianAI company Cato has raised €6 million in seed funding to expand its platformfor helping businesses find, analyse and compete for public tenders. The roundwas led by Keen Venture Partners, with …
OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company’s own site, dated 6 September, three days aft…
For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same …
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publ…
Nscale has agreed to sell Figure at least $3.5bn of computing power. It has also bought a stake in Figure, which is the part worth looking at. The London company announced the partnership on 3 September in a statement also carried on PR Newswire. The d…