Artificial Intelligence

Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market.

After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents who are over 18, it has a prompt box for describing your filter idea to the chatbot, with an option to attach style reference images. Then you can upload your own photos to preview the AI-generating effects, and ask for changes in follow-up prompts. There's also an option to allow Instagram's AI to rewrite your prompt, which turned my one-line test prompt "Make a filter that turns photos into comic book pages" into several AI-generated paragraphs … Read the full story at The Verge.

Cut a hole in the box. | Image: The Verge I would prefer that these people's sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident. Who could have guessed that the guy who was out here signing titties might not have great judgment about how to behave around women ? Alice Huang - no relation to Jensen - is a former TV reporter. That was before she became "an executive" at Megaspeed, which bought $4.8 billion of hard-to-get Nvidia chips, starting around the time she was being photographed with Jensen in a Taipei bar in 2024. "To many in the industry, the well-funded push by Megaspeed into A.I. appeared to come out of nowhe … Read the full story at The Verge.

Anthropic bought billions of dollars' worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer's remorse.

Viella, la capital de la Vall d’Aran , serà els dies 26 i 27 de novembre la seu del segon Congrés Internacional sobre Comunicació, Tecnologia i Llengües Minoritàries , que reunirà representants de mitjans públics, investigadors, universitats, empreses tecnològiques i institucions lingüístiques d’arreu d’Europa. La reunió, organitzada pel Consell General d’Aran , la Universitat Pompeu Fabra , la Universitat de Lleida i RTVE , se centrarà en els desafiaments i les oportunitats que ofereixen les noves tecnologies i la intel·ligència artificial per al futur de les llengües minoritzades. Amb el lema “El futur de les llengües minoritàries a través de la comunicació”, el congrés vol situar l’aranès al centre del debat internacional sobre la diversitat lingüística i la transformació digital. També pretén consolidar la Vall d’Aran com un territori de referència en el desenvolupament de tecnologies lingüístiques. El programa inclou la participació de representants d’organitzacions i mitjans com 3Cat , RTVA , la Unió Europea de Radiodifusió (UER) , Public Media Alliance , RTVE , EITB , Swedish Radio , BBC ALBA i…

Medium's new writing app embraces AI-assisted writing, despite growing controversy over the technology's role in publishing.

Meta says it will use its AI technology to look for clues about people it suspects to be teenagers — even if they use an adult birthday.

Hace un par de años, cuando el boom de la inteligencia artificial empezó a notarse fuera del sector tecnológico, hubo un nombre que comenzó a sonar por todas partes. Era el de Jensen Huang , el hombre de la chupa de cuero negra que levantaba pasiones y admiración cada vez que se subía a un escenario . La demanda de chips para la IA lo convirtió en uno de los hombres más ricos del mundo y llevó a Nvidia a superar a Apple en bolsa . Poco después, adelantó también a Microsoft y se convirtió en la empresa cotizada más valiosa del mundo . Al parecer ese perfil de hombre de éxito le ha llevado a otros derroteros: Jensen Huang ha admitido haber sido infiel a su esposa . Semejante declaración, sin embargo, no ha sido solo un acto de arrepentimiento.

Through civic participation and liberal education, South Korean educators hope to "quietly stitch the fabric of our democracy…before it unravels beyond repair." (Image credit: Anthony Kuhn)

Asian and European markets follow US tech rout with many analysts predicting more waves of selling to come European and Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday after the Democrats’ decisive victory in the midterms triggered a rout in US tech stocks a day earlier. A sell-off on Wall Street on Thursday was followed by sharp falls in Asian stock markets on Friday. The investor sentiment then reached London, where the market was, at one stage, poised for its worst day since March.

Investors had been selling off tech shares in part due to concerns the Democrat election victory would mean slower AI development.

Fears of more AI regulation appear to have sparked fear among investors, but concerns about the industry have been growing for some time.