Published October 29, 2025 Every business wants to stand out during the all-important festive shopping season and the pressure is no less heavy for the highest-profile luxury names as for smaller businesses. Mytheresa Mytheresa is aiming to score in the Golden Quarter with its decision to make a temporary change to its famous yellow boxes….
Adobe’s Oriol Nieto loaded up a short video with a handful of scenes and a voice-over, but no sound effects. The AI model analyzed the video and broke it down into scenes, applying emotional tags and a description of each scene. Then, the sound effects came. The AI model picked up on a scene with…
Picture yourself chatting with a friend in a crowded café. The clatter of dishes and hum of voices make it tough to follow the conversation. It might seem like a sign that you need a hearing aid, but new research suggests the issue may be linked to how your brain processes sound rather than your…
Daniel O’Donoghue & Laura O’NeillBBC North West Investigations Getty Illegal teeth-whitening treatments that can burn gums and destroy teeth are being handed over in car parks and on doorsteps, a BBC investigation has found. Some gels, containing more than 500 times the legal limit of bleaching agent for over-the-counter products, are sold blatantly on social…
Currently, most large language models break text down into thousands of tiny units called tokens. This turns the text into representations that models can understand. However, these tokens quickly become expensive to store and compute with as conversations with end users grow longer. When a user chats with an AI for lengthy periods, this challenge…
Clocking in at nearly three hours and abounding with actual AI images (of Count Dracula, of the Romanian warlord Vlad Tepes that inspired the famous vampire, and much, much else), the film seems almost deliberately enervating. In a climate where many in the film and creative industries see generative AI as an affront to both…
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of the industry. Just about all businesses these days seem to be pivoting to AI, even when they don’t seem to know exactly why they’re investing…
Published October 29, 2025 Paul Smith is known for doing ‘something special’ for the festive season and this year that means a link-up with the Royal Opera House. But at the same time, the designer is also continuing his partnership with BMW’s Mini car marque — so two very different collabs to discover. Paul Smith…
Published October 29, 2025 High-end online wholesale specialist JOOR has released its latest shoppable trends report, covering SS26, and has called out six key trends for the season. It comes on the back of runway shows from the recent Fashion Month and focuses on a bright 1980s colour palette, lightweight leather, the return of the…
Phil Shepka,Cambridgeshire political reporter and Katy Prickett Orthopaedic Academy Kuldeep Stohr was investigated in relation to 700 planned and 100 emergency operations “A series of missed opportunities” have been revealed by an investigation into hundreds of children’s surgeries carried out by a specialist working at a world-renowned NHS hospital. Kuldeep Stohr was suspended by Addenbrooke’s…
