Databricks and Shutterstock are trying to remove the copyright risk from AI image generation (exclusive)

Databricks and Shutterstock have developed a new text-to-image diffusion model similar to DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, but without the risk of copyright violations.

Most image generators are trained on images scraped from the web, but ImageAI, as it’s called, is trained only on Shutterstock images. That means there’s no risk of copyright infringement lawsuits resulting from the AI producing images closely derived from those of unpaid creators. 

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OpenAI promised to give us ‘Her.’ Apple’s AI is giving us Gary from ‘Veep’

During the World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple’s long-awaited entry into artificial intelligence took shape. While a recent OpenAI conference showing off new tech evoked comparisons to the title character in the 2013 film Her, Apple Intelligence brought to mind someone else: Gary from Veep.

For the uninitiated, Gary (Tony Hale

Apple stock price closed at an all-time high: Why the surge despite a mixed reaction to its AI event?

It’s been a big week for Apple—and an even bigger week for Apple investors. Yesterday, the company’s stock (ticker AAPL) closed at an all-time high of $207.15 per share, according to data from Yahoo Finance. AAPL shares climbed 7.26% in one day—one of the biggest single-day jumps for the stock in recent memory.

The stock surge propelled Apple to a market valuation of over $3.17 trillion. But just why did AAPL shares have one of their best trading days in a long time yesterday? Here

What ’80s movies got right and wrong about living with AI

Many of us seemed to have already fallen in love with our iPhones well before Spike Jonze’s techno-love story Her took that concept ">all the way. On its tenth anniversary last fall, Her attracted plenty of ">fresh analysis about its prophe

Raspberry Pi is going public on Friday. Its biggest fans are dreading it

When Raspberry Pi launched, in 2012, it was a tech tinkerer’s dream come true.

With a price of just $35, the credit card-sized computer was an inexpensive way for students to learn new programming languages, but it quickly became a platform for all kinds of creative tech projects. With

Space startups’ biggest challenge for takeoff: Getting regulatory approval

SpaceX’s next rideshare launch is almost upon us, and that means satellite companies have spent the last quarter scrambling to obtain the government permission they need to operate their spacecraft—a challenge that can take them by surprise.

Case study

Take Aethero, a firm developing edge computing in space. It’s launching a

Biden administration plans to award Rocket Lab $23.9 million to produce satellite and spacecraft chips

The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it planned to award Rocket Lab $23.9 million to dramatically boost the production of compound semiconductors used in satellites and spacecraft.

The award for Rocket Lab unit SolAero Technologies Corp. “would help create a more robust and resilient supply of space-grade solar cells that power spacecrafts and satel

Ancestry.com is using AI to make a searchable database for Black family trees

Ancestry.com is releasing a new collection of searchable newspaper articles published before the 1900s that contain details on formerly enslaved people in the U.S., the company announced Tuesday.

The database, which is free to access, could help Black Americans discover more information about their families’ pasts. The tool

WeWork exits bankruptcy and names new CEO after Tolley steps down

WeWork CEO David Tolley stepped down after the flexible workspace provider emerged from bankruptcy on Tuesday, bookending a months-long restructuring process that featured a strategy revamp and exits from several locations.

The company named commercial real estate industry veteran John Santora as its new to


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