Disney and Universal are suing artificial intelligence (AI) firm Midjourney over its image generator, which the Hollywood giants allege is a “bottomless pit of plagiarism”. The two studios claim Midjourney’s tool makes “innumerable” copies of characters including Darth Vader from Star Wars, Frozen’s Elsa, and the Minions from Despicable Me. It is part of the…
Data and AI tools enable broad surveillance of social media Tada Images/Shutterstock The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and its embrace of more data analytics and artificial intelligence tools could increase scrutiny of US citizens as well. “It is nearly – if not…
The Federal Reserve should focus on keeping the U.S. currency stable. (Photo by Alfred Gescheidt/Getty Images) Getty Images The Federal Reserve needs to be hit with the intellectual version of a B-2 bomber or a DOGE-like intervention. Our central bank is behaving badly. It won’t reduce interest rates, in no small part because it’s angry…
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 watt-hours of energy: “About what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb…
MINNEAPOLIS — Stephanie White stopped abruptly at the press room door, feet from a plastic-wrapped locker room, and tugged frantically at the shoelaces of her Caitlin Clark Nike Kobe 5 Protros. She couldn’t wear those shoes in that environment. And if the drenched, championship T-shirt-clad group that tumbled out of the visiting locker room 15…
The world’s first AI-powered, chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion was launched on Wednesday. Daydream launches as the world’s first AI fashion shopping agent. – Daydream Dubbed “Daydream”, the platform introduces a fashion-forward “chat to shop” experience that delivers personalized, conversational shopping that responds like a trusted personal shopper. Founded by e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein,…
SINCE ITS founding in 1968 Intel has been synonymous with shrinkage. In its first four decades this was high praise. Every two years or so the American chip pioneer came out with new transistors half the size of earlier ones, a regularity that came to be known as Moore’s law, after one of the company’s…
NordPass and NordStellar reviewed terabytes of data The analysis uncovered poor password practices in the healthcare industry Organizations are lacking staff training and strong policies Hygiene in hospitals and clinics is essential, but cyber-hygiene – despite being equally important – is constantly being neglected, experts have warned. A report from NordPass and NordStellar has claimed…
No. 7 Mirra Andreeva reached her third consecutive round of 16 at a major with a straight-sets win Saturday at Wimbledon, while former champion Elena Rybakina, the No. 11 seed, was ousted by No. 23 Clara Tauson 7-6 (6), 6-3 in a rain-interrupted third-round match. Andreeva, 18, eased past unseeded American Hailey Baptiste 6-1, 6-3…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration announced Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services will ban illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded services, including the popular Head Start early childhood education program. The agency announced that it will rescind the 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity…
