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The End of Faking It in Silicon Valley

Recent charges, convictions and sentences all indicate that the start-up world’s habit of playing fast and loose with the truth actually has consequences.

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Adobe teases generative AI video tools

Enlarge / A demo of Firefly AI generation in Adobe Premiere. (credit: Adobe) On Monday, Adobe announced plans to add AI video synthesis tools to Premiere Pro and After Effects, reports Reuters. This follows an announcement last week that AI-powered text-based video editing will come to Premiere Pro in May. Adobe’s generative video effects will...

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FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony

Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem,” what does that mean, exactly? (credit: Aurich Lawson) Chrome developers’ decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just another sign of “the disturbing amount...

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Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a “self-improving robot.” (credit: Midjourney) Since the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4 API last month to beta testers, a loose group of developers have been experimenting with making agent-like (“agentic”) implementations of the AI model that attempt to carry out multistep tasks with as little human intervention as possible. These...