Top record labels and start-up Suno hit impasse in AI-generated music talks
One executive says there is ‘no path’ towards licensing deal under current proposal
One executive says there is ‘no path’ towards licensing deal under current proposal
Kyle Kosic joins Project Prometheus, the secretive start-up working on systems that can understand the physical world
In this tutorial, we implement an advanced, practical implementation of the NVIDIA Transformer Engine in Python, focusing on how mixed-precision acceleration can be explored in a realistic deep learning workflow. We set up the environment, verify GPU and CUDA readiness, attempt to install the required Transformer Engine components, and handle compatibility issues gracefully so that […]
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Running powerful AI on your smartphone isn’t just a hardware problem — it’s a model architecture problem. Most state-of-the-art vision encoders are enormous, and when you trim them down to fit on an edge device, they lose the capabilities that made them useful in the first place. Worse, specialized models tend to excel at one […]
The post Meta AI Releases EUPE: A Compact Vision Encoder Family Under 100M Parameters That Rivals Specialist Models Across Image Understanding, Dense Prediction, and VLM Tasks appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.
Rocket’s new AI platform combines strategy, product building, and competitive intelligence, aiming to move beyond code generation.
U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds in the first quarter of 2026 per Crunchbase data. That’s more than 3x the total raised in the prior quarter, and the largest quarterly total of all time.
Twenty-one states are raising minimum wages in 2026. New research from McDonald’s and Burger King franchises shows what happens when the floor moves — and HR isn’t ready.
The post As minimum wages rise in 21 states, McDonald’s and Burger King offer a cautionary tale appeared first on HR Executive.
Employment attorney Tara Humma breaks down the legal risks AI tools create for employers and how HR can get ahead of them.
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“This disconnect means that engagement alone is no longer a reliable signal of workforce stability,” said Bill Schuh, Firstup’s CEO.
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Using AI and timely reminders becomes a fresh approach to making learning stick and creating a culture that works.
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A consolidated class action against Otter.ai is raising questions about consent, privacy and employer liability. Attorneys say HR hasn’t caught up yet.
The post A lawsuit over AI notetakers should be on every HR leader’s radar appeared first on HR Executive.
For years Mike McClary sold the Guardian LTE Flashlight, a heavy-duty black model, online through his small outdoor brand. The product, designed for brightness and durability, became one of his most popular items ever. Even after he stopped offering it around 2017, customers kept sending him emails asking where they could buy it. When McClary…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher at Anthropic, responding Wednesday to a call for…
AI systems are starting to move beyond simple responses. In many organisations, AI agents are now being tested to plan tasks, make decisions, and carry out actions with limited human input. It is no longer just about whether a model gives the right answer. It is about what happens when that model is allowed to […]
The post As AI agents take on more tasks, governance becomes a priority appeared first on AI News.
Writing fast GPU code is one of the most grueling specializations in machine learning engineering. Researchers from RightNow AI want to automate it entirely. The RightNow AI research team has released AutoKernel, an open-source framework that applies an autonomous LLM agent loop to GPU kernel optimization for arbitrary PyTorch models. The approach is straightforward: give […]
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Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in.
Today, I’m talking with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco. Cisco is one of those big companies that everyone has heard of but that most of us don’t have to interact with very much; it’s not really a consumer brand. But all of us are in some way using Cisco’s products and services every day because […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has published a video threatening OpenAI’s planned Abu Dhabi data center if the US follows through on threats to attack the country’s power plants, as reported earlier by Tom’s Hardware. The video, which was published to an Iranian state-backed news outlet’s X account on April 3rd, says the IRGC […]
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople’s spacecraft.
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OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
Iran said it will target U.S.-linked data centers with new missile strikes, as the war between the U.S. and Iran escalates.
Google’s new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.
South Korea’s strained social care system turns to ChatGPT-enabled devices as population ages
The technology is already leading to rapid changes in the way company accounts are reviewed
In this tutorial, we build and run an advanced pipeline for Netflix’s VOID model. We set up the environment, install all required dependencies, clone the repository, download the official base model and VOID checkpoint, and prepare the sample inputs needed for video object removal. We also make the workflow more practical by allowing secure terminal-style […]
The post How to Build a Netflix VOID Video Object Removal and Inpainting Pipeline with CogVideoX, Custom Prompting, and End-to-End Sample Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Most foundation models in biology have a fundamental blind spot: they see cells as frozen snapshots. Give a model a single-cell transcriptome — a readout of which genes are active in a cell at a given moment — and it can tell you a lot about what that cell is doing right now. What it […]
The post Meet MaxToki: The AI That Predicts How Your Cells Age — and What to Do About It appeared first on MarkTechPost.
AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.
The backlash against data centres chimes with energy Nimbyism of the past
Fashion has always been about anticipation, determining what one would prefer to wear before they know it themselves. It’s meant in terms of intuition, presentation, experience, and the “good eye”. Today, it can be conveyed through algorithms, neural networks, and machine learning. Artificial Intelligence is no longer at the dregs, but very much at the […]
The post Inside the Creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stack: Where Human Vision and Artificial Intelligence Meet to Design Future Fashion appeared first on MarkTechPost.
There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces, tweak the prompt, add a tool, rerun. Repeat this a few dozen times and you might move the needle. It’s grunt work dressed up in […]
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