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C3.ai’s second quarter results disappointed investors, with revenue and profitability both falling notably short of Wall Street’s expectations. Management attributed the underperformance to disruptions caused by a major restructuring of the sales and services organization and a period of leadership transition. Executive Chairman Tom Siebel described the financial results as “completely unacceptable,” citing poor sales execution and a lack of resource coordination as the primary causes. The company also experienced a negative impact from a lower mix of demonstration license revenue and higher costs associated with initial production deployments. Is now the time to buy AI? Find out in our…

Recent advancements in image customization exhibit a wide range of application prospects due to stronger customization capabilities. However, since we humans are more sensitive to faces, a significant challenge remains in preserving consistent identity while avoiding identity confusion with multi-reference images, limiting the identity scalability of customization models. To address this, we present UMO, a Unified Multi-identity Optimization framework, designed to maintain high-fidelity identity preservation and alleviate identity confusion with scalability. With “multi-to-multi matching” paradigm, UMO reformulates multi-identity generation as a global assignment optimization problem and unleashes multi-identity consistency for existing image customization methods generally through reinforcement learning on diffusion…

Larry Ellison, the founder and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp. ORCL, expressed optimism regarding the future of AI and his company’s competitive positioning in the segment.Larry Ellison Says ‘AI Will Change Everything’ During the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Ellison declared, “eventually, AI will change everything,” while highlighting his company’s growing dominance in enterprise AI infrastructure.According to Ellison, AI inference, which refers to using trained models in real-world applications, is poised to be “much, much larger than the AI training market.” He says that with millions of customers using AI models to run their businesses and governments, it…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday, September 9, launched a low-cost AI reasoning model as an alternative to similar offerings from the likes of OpenAI and DeepSeek. K2 Think was developed by the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an AI-focused research university established by the UAE, in partnership with domestic AI firm G42 backed by Microsoft. It has been built on top of Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s open-source Qwen 2.5 model and runs on infrastructure provided by AI chipmaker Cerebas, according to a report by CNBC. The newly launched AI model has a total of 32…

Miguel Llorca is Microsoft Regional Director, Dual MVP & MCT | LinkedIn Top Voice | Author, LinkedIn Learning | Public Speaker. NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2020, Google DeepMind unveiled a technology that fundamentally changed biology forever. AlphaFold, an AI that could predict the 3D structure of proteins with stunning accuracy, solved a 50-year-old grand challenge. The scientific journal Nature called it a revolution. Today, with over 200 million protein structures predicted and made public, its impact is undeniable—accelerating everything from mRNA vaccine development to the design of plastic-eating enzymes. Now, DeepMind is pointing its formidable AI prowess at an…

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Native ForeignA Wall Street Journal report says OpenAI is backing the creation of a new animated film called Critterz that will be made “largely” with AI, in hopes of convincing Hollywood that it’s time to go all-in on AI content creation tools.Called Critterz, the film follows forest creatures who embark on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger—a fairly generic setup for a Pixar-esque tale of talking wildlife where it doesn’t belong.But the real purpose of the project, according to…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: As it delves deeper into digital assets, GameStop’s second quarter net sales increased 21.8% year over year to $972.2 million, per a company press release Tuesday. The retailer reported a $66.4 million operating income, compared to an operating loss of  $22 million the year prior. GameStop’s net income for the period reached $168.6 million, a dramatic increase from the year prior’s $14.8 million. The company did not provide forward-looking guidance or conduct an earnings call, but reported its Bitcoin holdings at…

Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Maly Bernstein, who has been Bluemercury’s CEO for four years, will leave the beauty retailer at the end of the month, parent Macy’s Inc. confirmed Tuesday. Macy’s acquired Bluemercury in 2015. Bernstein arrived in September 2021 shortly after co-founder and CEO Marla Beck left. Marla Beck and co-founder Barry Beck were both set to leave in 2019, but Marla Beck ended up staying. In recent years, Bluemercury has been a bright spot for Macy’s Inc., which has been toiling through a turnaround at…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Holiday sales in the U.S. are expected to increase between 2.9% and 3.4% this coming season, according to a Deloitte forecast. Deloitte projects holiday sales from November through January will total between $1.61 trillion and $1.62 trillion, up from $1.57 trillion last season, as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau.  E-commerce holiday sales growth will continue at a clip of between 7% and 9%, similar to the previous year. Total e-commerce sales are projected to reach between $305 billion and…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Hasbro is headed to Beantown.  The toy company is relocating its Rhode Island operations to Boston’s Seaport District, which will now be the primary headquarters for its toys, board games, licensing businesses and most of its corporate services. Around 700 employees will transfer by the end of 2026.  The move is part of a broader effort, Hasbro’s Playing to Win strategy, which is meant to drive innovation, attract talent and accelerate long-term growth, according to a company press release. Other goals include…