Category: AI

– Senate bill passed to force sale or ban of TikTok in US – Positive news about AI startups in Europe – Updates on Framework laptops, Pony.AI, Volition Capital, and Perplexity AI raising money and expanding operations. A bill has passed the Senate that could force a sale of TikTok in the United States, or…

– Microsoft launched Phi-3 Mini, a tiny language model as part of their strategy to develop lightweight AI models. – Phi-3 Mini offers benefits of being cheaper to fine-tune, requiring less compute, and capable of running on-device for tasks like summarizing documents. – The model was trained using curated synthetic data, starting with a limited…

1. Midjourney updated random style feature works with current AI image generation model 2. Users can randomize image style by adding “–sref random” to prompt 3. Different styles created by random feature include photorealism, sci-fi, 3D render, ink wash, meme, glitch, and kawaii Midjourney has updated its random style feature to work with the latest…

1. Ofcom, the U.K. regulator, is planning to explore how AI can be used to detect and remove illegal online content to protect children, particularly child sex abuse material. 2. Younger children, including 3-4 year-olds, are increasingly going online, with many owning smartphones, watching videos, and using social media apps that are meant for older…

1. Rabbit’s R1 AI device impressed at CES 2024 with its combination of a 360-degree camera, 4G LTE Internet connection, and RabbitOS. 2. 20,000 pre-orders for the Rabbit R1 were sold within 48 hours of its announcement. 3. A pickup party is being held at the TWA Hotel in New York City to mark the…

– Meta testing AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger – Company blocking specific election-related queries in chatbot test phase – Meta working to improve AI response system and restricting certain keywords for accuracy Last week, Meta began testing its AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. However, with the Indian…

– Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses gain upgrades in camera-enabled AI features, video calling functionality, and new frame shapes – Meta AI provides insights on what users are seeing, like object identification, landmark info, language translation, and outfit matching – Glasses offer hands-free photo and video capture, in-app livestream feature, and new design options through Ray-Ban…

1. Adobe’s Firefly family of generative AI models has a mixed reputation among creatives, with the Firefly image-generation model specifically criticized for being underwhelming compared to rivals like Midjourney and OpenAI. 2. Adobe is launching its third-generation model, Firefly Image 3, which promises more realistic imagery and improved scene understanding, lighting, and text-generation capabilities. 3.…

– Visit the Leonardo website to get started – Create an account to access AI image generation – Write a text prompt, choose a model, select a style, pick an element, add a negative prompt, generate and download your AI image There are various AI image generators available such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Adobe…

– AWS launches Custom Model Import feature in Bedrock, allowing organizations to import and access their custom generative AI models as fully managed APIs – AWS offers tools like Guardrails and Model Evaluation to help customers fine-tune and evaluate their models for things like hate speech or privacy issues – Titan Image Generator and Titan…