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Laika’s Travis Knight says generative AI clashes with his studio’s craft
Travis Knight, director of Laika’s stop-motion film Wildwood, says generative AI is at odds with his studio’s handmade work, while still seeing benefits in medicine and science.
The Verge
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia each set lobbying spending records last quarter
Three leading AI companies had their biggest-ever lobbying quarter this summer, federal filings show, as they work harder to shape AI rules in Washington.
The Verge
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Spotify pulls 50 million AI ‘slop’ tracks from its recommendations
Spotify says it has stopped recommending a flood of low-quality AI and spam songs and changed its algorithm to favour music by human artists.
The Verge
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Data center demand is driving a US fossil fuel building boom
A new report finds the US is planning more gas and other fossil fuel power than it has in a decade, as data centers push electricity demand up…
The Verge
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Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with one tap
Adobe added a generative AI tool to Lightroom’s mobile app that fixes photos where someone blinked, using other pictures of the same person as a guide.
The Verge
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CoreWeave’s debt worries are spreading across the AI industry
Investors have grown nervous about AI cloud provider CoreWeave’s heavy borrowing, and the jitters have spread to other companies that took on debt for the AI buildout.
The Verge
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Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after private chats turn up online
Meta has paused a feature for sharing Muse AI conversations after security researchers found that shared chats could be discovered and opened by strangers.
The Verge
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NVIDIA’s Cosmos3-H-Dreams simulates real surgery with generative AI
NVIDIA released a research simulator that generates realistic video of gallbladder surgery in real time, responding as a user moves the surgical robot’s instruments.
Hugging Face
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Google Research lets AI agents run real lab experiments with robots
Google Research connected AI agents to lab robots so they can design molecules, run the experiments and learn from the results, with scientists overseeing each step.
Google Research