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Generative AI, which is currently riding a crest of popular discourse, promises a world where the simple transforms into the complex — where a simple distribution evolves into intricate patterns of images, sounds, or text, rendering the artificial startlingly real.  The realms of imagination no longer remain as mere abstractions, as researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have brought an innovative AI model to life. Their new technology integrates two seemingly unrelated physical laws that underpin the best-performing generative models to date: diffusion, which typically illustrates the random motion of elements, like heat permeating a room…

Fraudsters have wasted no time in getting to grips with AI tech for techniques such as using deepfake tech to create an almost exact clone of a voice, posing as a loved one in a WhatsApp voice note. It’s estimated one in 12 Britons have fallen victim to these scams, with 77% of victims losing money as a result. What’s more, searches for ‘Smishing scams’ have increased by 24% over the past year, a coin termed to categorise the WhatsApp or text message version of email phishing. But what threats do these technologies bring to businesses? In the first quarter…

The Blockchain Association has thrown fresh support behind six plaintiffs suing the United States Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over its sanctions on the crypto mixer Tornado Cash.In a Nov. 20 amicus curiae brief to a U.S. appellate court, the crypto advocacy group argued OFAC’s decision to sanction the privacy protocol was not only unlawful but exceeded its statutory authority and was both “arbitrary and capricious” — contrary to the U.S. Constitution.It’s the second amicus brief filed by the Blockchain Association supporting a group of Tornado Cash users appealing a lower court’s ruling that upheld OFAC’s decision to…

Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). Credit: Pic credit: ESO/L. Calçada A ground-breaking new discovery by University of Leeds scientists could transform the way astronomers understand some of the biggest and most common stars in the universe. The paper, “Gaia uncovers difference in B and Be star binarity at small scales: evidence for mass transfer causing the Be phenomenon,” is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Research by Ph.D. student Jonathan Dodd…

Junior Treasury minister, Gareth Davies confirmed that Mr Hunt would not be touching the payments, worth up to £600 for some pensioners, in Wednesday’s autumn statement. His comments came after Government minister John Glen was recorded saying the money could be better spent tackling child poverty. Mr Glen, who was chief secretary to the Treasury at the time – the second most senior minister in the department after Mr Hunt – also questioned whether the triple lock which guarantees increases in the state pension was sustainable. The minister, who became the Paymaster General in last week’s reshuffle, was speaking at…

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Image Credit: Alan Markfield/New Line/Kobal/Shutterstock Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart, both 47, starred together in the beloved 2005 holiday flick Just Friends. Now, they’re reuniting in a fun ad campaign that pays homage to the hilarious film that brought them together as besties nearly two decades ago! “2023, New Jersey,” the scene is set as Amy (as her character, Jamie Palomino) enters the living room to see Ryan (Chris Brander) checking out their Christmas tree and asking how her day went. “Mmm, I’ve had better days,” she says as she cradles a bottle of Aviation American Gin — a brand…

Salesforce among the first to make blanket offers With most of OpenAI’s employees threatening to leave following Sam Altman’s ousting, company rivals might be missing the biggest opportunity of the year: poaching talent. As chaos at OpenAI and Microsoft, where Altman is headed now, continues, companies like Anthropic, Mozilla or Patronus AI could be attractive to employees seeking stability. The upshot? OpenAI employees — a pool of highly sought-after AI experts — could scatter to other companies or follow Altman. “That talent is the crown jewel of the organization,” Tammy Madsen, professor of management in the Leavey School of Business…

Tell us about Zeda.io  Zeda.io is an AI-powered product discovery and strategy software that helps product teams uncover problems that matter to customers, decide what to build next, align product teams through builds, and create revenue-generating, impactful products.   How did you come up with the idea for the company?   Before founding Zeda.io, I spent my career as a Product Manager for great companies across India, the USA, Indonesia, and Japan. It was in these roles that I realized that we were wasting a lot of time: as highly intelligent Product Managers, we were wasting a lot of updating Excel…

Despite being published in 1949 at the tail end of World War II, I think George Orwell’s fictional novel, 1984, is still as relevant today as it was back then. The book is set in the fictional state of Oceania, where a dystopian future has taken over the reins of society. The leader of the nation, Big Brother, keeps a constant eye on citizens, making sure that they think, act, and speak precisely how they should further the aims of the rulers. Governed by the Party, the people of Oceania have no form of freedom, not in the way they…