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How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label — “The Hardest Part,” a new song from indie pop artist Washed Out, is all about love lost, among the most human of themes.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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...| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches quote post controls for all Threads users, who can allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people they follow, or disable quote posts — Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. — This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users …
More: Engadget. Threads: @mosseri, @dodgersfanpg, @danielthejew, @_davidking17_, @shaneblair8580, @codedrift.social, @ghostoflviv_, @darnell, and @documentingmeta. Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online. Bluesky: @josh.uno
| 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
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Forums: r/technews and r/ukraine
| 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 …
More: Android Authority, The Verge, Gizmodo, Spyglass, The Wall Street Journal on YouTube, Engadget, BGR, 9to5Google, New York Post, and CNET
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| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Crypto startups embrace open-ended, rolling funding rounds that quickly lift valuations, as crypto funds seek to deploy unspent cash raised in 2021 and 2022 — - Startups are embracing so-called open-ended funding rounds — Venture funds are seeking to deploy previously static cash| Tara Copp / Associated Press: |
US Air Force plans a fleet of 1,000+ AI-controlled jets, the first of them operating by 2028; some AI versions already beat human pilots in air-to-air combat — (AP Video by Eugene Garcia and Mike Pesoli) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched …
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| 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 …
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| Julie Tsirkin / NBC News: |
Biden is expected to sign the REPORT Act next week; the bipartisan bill targets child sextortion online through new CSAM reporting requirements and more — Jordan DeMay, a 17-year-old who died by suicide in 2022, is one of a growing number of teens targeted by financial sextortion.| 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.| 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 …
Threads: @lllafalce, @hashimwarren, and @lavishtantrums
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| 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
More: Applied Clinical Trials, PharmaVoice, and arXiv
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