Enlarge / Example images generated using Stable Diffusion XL Turbo. (credit: Stable Diffusion XL Turbo / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion XL Turbo, an AI image-synthesis model that can rapidly generate imagery based on a written prompt. So rapidly, in fact, that the company is billing it as “real-time” image generation,...
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Amazon unleashes Q, an AI assistant for the workplace
Enlarge / The Amazon Q logo. (credit: Amazon) On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled Amazon Q, an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that is tailored for corporate environments. Developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Q is designed to assist employees with tasks like summarizing documents, managing internal support tickets, and providing policy guidance, differentiating itself from consumer-focused...
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Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that now encompasses the Apple Card credit card, high-interest savings accounts, and a buy-now-pay-later service called Apple Pay Later. But even if those products have proven reasonably popular with consumers, they haven’t been working out for the bank that...
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Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
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ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers are tracking what they say is the “mass exploitation” of a security vulnerability that makes it possible to take full control of servers running ownCloud, a widely used open-source filesharing server app. The vulnerability, which carries the maximum severity rating of 10, makes it possible to obtain passwords and...
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Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously
Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. (credit: Ekobot AB) Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it’s a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides, have potentially devastating side effects for people,...
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Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A prolific espionage hacking group with ties to China spent over two years looting the corporate network of NXP, the Netherlands-based chipmaker whose silicon powers security-sensitive components found in smartphones, smartcards, and electric vehicles, a news outlet has reported. The intrusion, by a group tracked under names including “Chimera” and “G0114,”...
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Elon Musk Meets With Netanyahu in Israel Amid Backlash Against Social Media Post
Alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mr. Musk toured an Israeli village where dozens of people were killed in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks.
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New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image
Enlarge / Still examples of images animated using Stable Video Diffusion by Stability AI. (credit: Stability AI) On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video—with mixed results. It’s an open-weights preview of two AI models that use a technique...
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Amazon’s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes
Enlarge / A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: Jeff Barr/Amazon) Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client optimized for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon’s Workspaces Thin Client also supports Amazon’s Workspaces Web, for accessing virtual desktops from a browser,...