AI

From the keynote countdown to speaker title cards and beyond, generative AI took the stage at I/O 2025. Source link

AI video is on another level When we tested the energy demands of various models, we found the energy required to produce even a low-quality, five-second video to be pretty shocking: It was 42,000 times more than the amount needed for a chatbot answer a question about a recipe, and enough to power a microwave…

If you reach a point where progress has outstripped the ability to make the systems safe, would you take a pause? I don’t think today’s systems are posing any sort of existential risk, so it’s still theoretical. The geopolitical questions could actually end up being trickier. But given enough time and enough care and thoughtfulness,…

Customers are increasingly using generative AI to enhance efficiency, personalize experiences, and drive innovation across various industries. For instance, generative AI can be used to perform text summarization, facilitate personalized marketing strategies, create business-critical chat-based assistants, and so on. However, as generative AI adoption grows, associated costs can escalate in several areas including cost in…

These images were created by an artist known as Botto, which exhibited at Sotheby’s in New York this October and has made more than $4 million from sales of its work. In truth though, Botto needs only GPUs to get creative juices flowing. Botto is a decentralized semi-autonomous artistic agent created in 2021 by the…

Imagine radically speeding up the time it takes to process housing and infrastructure planning applications in England, empowering councils to make faster, more informed decisions and driving growth across the economy, all thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). That vision is becoming a reality thanks to a unique new system called Extract. As UK Prime Minister…

It is a significant overhaul of a department that in 40 years has never before been placed so squarely on the chopping block. Here’s how today’s defense tech companies, which have fostered close connections to the Trump administration, stand to gain, and why safety testing might suffer as a result.  The Operational Test and Evaluation…

Multi-channel transcription streaming is a feature of Amazon Transcribe that can be used in many cases with a web browser. Creating this stream source has it challenges, but with the JavaScript Web Audio API, you can connect and combine different audio sources like videos, audio files, or hardware like microphones to obtain transcripts. In this…

Today, Google is announcing the 20 organizations joining the newest Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI cohort. These organizations, which will use generative AI to address significant societal problems including crisis response, antimicrobial resistance and children’s mental health, were selected through an open call for nonprofits, social enterprises, civic entities and universities. Each one will receive a…

The Biden administration this week introduced new export restrictions designed to control AI’s progress globally and ultimately prevent the most advanced AI from falling into China’s hands. The rule is just the latest in a string of measures put in place by Donald Trump and Joe Biden to keep Chinese AI in check. With prominent…