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Nvidia’s chief Jensen Huang spent two days — July 15 and 16 — in Tokyo, courting Japan’s industrial and chip-supply elite, weeks after a keynote in Taiwan, and months after a visit to South Korea . He left with deals spanning Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies, and agreements…
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Following the success of its $99 Kodak-branded Snapic A1 , Reto Project is releasing the Kodak EC35 , an even more affordable 35mm film camera for just $34.99. The EC35 certainly isn’t fancy.
Apple recently filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI , accusing the AI company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , Kirsten…
I would never go so far as to say there’s no place for AI in music (I’m a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring , especially the outputs of Suno .
According to the The New York Times , federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE agents. The DHS and DOJ denied the change in policy to The Times.
The manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested Saturday in Miami by US Marshals in relation to new rape and sex trafficking charges in England. According to the Associated Press , British authorities are seeking the brothers’ extradition.
Birdfy has kicked off a midyear sale, taking up to 40 percent off a range of its smart bird feeders. One of the best deals is on Netvue’s Birdfy Feeder AI-Powered Smart Bird Feeder with Camera , which has dropped to $149.99 at Birdfy and is its second-best price to date.
In 2017, I bought an old Magnus chord organ off Craigslist for $10. It’s one of my favorite music gear purchases.
A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant. She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn’t speak English.
Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director whose new version of “The Odyssey” is currently conquering the box office , said it’s been “pretty encouraging” to see deep skepticism of AI, especially from young people . Nolan was responding to a question from interviewer Hugo Travers , who publishes on YouTube under the name HugoDécrypte.
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We continue our series about model distillation techniques. In the AI of the Week , we discuss Thinking Machine first open weights model.
On July 19th, dozens of teams of high school students will begin a five-day, 630-mile road race from Fort Worth to Fort Stockton in Texas. But this is not your typical contest.
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels , screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney’s , and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly.
Seventeen-year-old Xiaoxue describes her boyfriend Xiaojun as a "sweet guy". The pair spend hours each day talking about schoolwork, interactions with friends, and how she is feeling.