At this time last year, OpenAI was weeks away from releasing ChatGPT into the world. It was a move that thrust the field of artificial intelligence into the spotlight and turned the company’s then relatively unknown CEO, Sam Altman, into a household name and AI soothsayer who has since commanded audiences with presidents and prime ministers, charming them with his sober-eyed assessments of where the technology is headed and what they ought to do about it.
What a difference a
A new evidence review published in the journal Early Education and Development looked at 23 years of neuroimaging research, specifically 33 studies that used neuroimaging techniques to measure the impact of digital technology on the brains of children under the age of 12. It found that screen time leads to changes in the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
While screen time impacting your child’s brain might sound like a reason to toss out your televisions, computers, and sm
After a shockingly successful 2021 and a mixed 2022, the party seems to have truly come to an end for startups and venture capitalists in 2023.
And while the doomsday economic scenarios many expected at the start of the year failed to materialize, the continued sense of malaise after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this year and a less-than-rosy IPO market isn’t painting an optimistic picture for the months to come.
Much heralded IPOs from Instacart and
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Captions makes it easy to share compelling narrated videos. The app adds attractive, eye-catching captions to videos you record or import. It has a helpful teleprompter, an AI script-writing assistant, and a suite of AI editing features. Its most impressive feature: AI dubbing that can automatically transform your voice in
Companies today are grappling with a monumental challenge: the relentless accumulation of data. According to the latest estimates, 328.77 million terabytes of data are created each day. Around 120 zettabytes of data will be generated this year, an almost incomprehensible amount.
Every sector, from industry giants to small businesses, confronts the daunting task of managing this deluge of text, audio, and video content, to name a few formats.
Managing internal and external
Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media. The first shows a little boy hovering over his father’s dead body, whimpering in Arabic, “Don’t leave me.” The second purports to show a pregnant woman with her stomach slashed open and claims to document the testimony of a paramedic who handled victims’ bodies after Hamas’ attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Even though these vide
Meta announced Thursday the release of two new generative video tools that might eventually be widely used by people on Facebook and Instagram.
One is a tool called Emu Video that generates videos that users describe using text. The other is an editing tool called Emu Edit with which users can further alter videos, again with text input. Both tools are based on the Emu foundation model, which Meta had already announced.
Emu Video is powered by two diffusion models and can
Apple is the world’s first $3 trillion market value company, and it got there by generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue per quarter. Historically, that revenue has primarily come from hardware sales, but more recently the company’s coffers are being filled by non-hardware products, and thanks to DOJ’s ongoing antitrust trial against Google, we now know a lot more about the impressive non-hardware revenue Apple generates.
For the first 30 years of its
The Israel-Hamas conflict has been a minefield of confusing counter-arguments and controversies—and an information environment that experts investigating mis- and disinformation say is among the worst they’ve ever experienced.
In the time since Hamas launched its terror attack against Israel last month—and Israel has responded with a weekslong counterattack—social media has been full of comments, pictures, and video from both sides of the conflict putting
The heated antitrust battle between Google and the U.S. government is set to conclude in the coming days. It’s been a whirlwind 10-week bench trial, full of high-profile testimony, stunning revelations of backroom deals, and court-sanctioned secrecy. The crux of the government’s argument is Google struck anticompetitive deals with Apple and other phone manufacturers to make their search engine the default on mobile devices and gain an unfair advantage for its search advertising