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A look at Runway’s second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen — Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…
As chipmakers move into or expand in the region around Germany’s Dresden, skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers, and end customers are needed (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
As chipmakers move into or expand in the region around Germany’s Dresden, skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers, and end customers are needed — Skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers and end customers are needed — DRESDEN, Germany/TAIPEI …
Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity’s problems (Will Knight/Wired)
Will Knight / Wired:
Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity’s problems — Philosopher Nick Bostrom popularized the idea superintelligent AI could erase humanity. His new book imagines a world in which algorithms have solved every problem.
A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create “digital twins”, to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create “digital twins”, to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants — AI that can predict how specific humans will look, act and feel could do the jobs of fashion models, focus group members and clinical trial participants
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects’ locations and other details (Tim Stelloh/NBC News)
Tim Stelloh / NBC News:
Defense lawyers question the accuracy and reliability of Cybercheck, an AI tool used in thousands of US cases to identify suspects’ locations and other details — Cybercheck’s founder has said the software tops 90% accuracy. Defense lawyers have said he lied under oath about his expertise …
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people” (Agence France-Presse)
Agence France-Presse:
Ukraine unveils an AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson called Victoria Shi, who will make official statements “written and verified by real people” — Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on Ukraine’s version of the reality show The Bachelor
A look at news publishers’ conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at news publishers’ conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates — – The new suits add heft to the Times’ claims. … Several other large news publishers, including the Financial Times …
Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11% (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Synergy Research: cloud revenue grew 21% YoY in Q1 2024 to $76B; Altimeter: AWS now has 31% market share followed by Azure with 25% and Google with 11% — Last year’s doldrums are in the rearview thanks to AI — If you were concerned about slowing cloud infrastructure growth for a time in 2023 …
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane’s AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are a simple, reliable, and smartly priced AI gadget, whereas Humane’s AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 are more akin to science projects — There’s a new WANTED poster in town… PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1: The smartphone ACCUSED OF: Stealing your attention, sanity and well-being REWARD …
Sources: Swedish PE firm EQT acquires a “significant majority” stake in WSO2, valuing the enterprise API and identity management company at “more than” $600M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Sources: Swedish PE firm EQT acquires a “significant majority” stake in WSO2, valuing the enterprise API and identity management company at “more than” $600M — WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises …
