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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…
A significant breakthrough has occurred in the field of artificial intelligence image creation with the official launch of the Doubao Image Creation Model Seedream 4.0 by Volcano Engine. This fourth-generation model has achieved groundbreaking advancements in core functions such as theme consistency, multi-image collaborative creation, and 4K ultra-high-definition output, with a generation efficiency reaching responses in seconds. It has become another image generation tool that has drawn industry attention following Google’s nano banana model. During the practical testing phase, the model demonstrated astonishing creative capabilities. When given the complex instruction to “generate a 1/7 scale figure scene,” the system not…
ALSP Lawhive, which provides a mix of legal and legal tech help for clients, has bought Woodstock Legal Services, in a further sign of how the consumer and SMB market is evolving very rapidly now. Lawhive, which operates in the US and UK, raised over $40m in funding last year, and said that ‘acquiring Woodstock Legal Services, a consultancy-model firm [in the UK], is designed to accelerate the mission to combine human expertise with intelligent technology and AI’. Lawhive was keen to pitch this as a legal AI company (…as it has an AI assistant called Lawrence…) buying a legal services…
Executing language-conditioned tasks in dynamic visual environments remains a central challenge in embodied AI. Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly adopt reactive state-to-action mappings, often leading to short-sighted behaviors and poor robustness in dynamic scenes. In this paper, we introduce F1, a pretrained VLA framework which integrates the visual foresight generation into decision-making pipeline. F1 adopts a Mixture-of-Transformer architecture with dedicated modules for perception, foresight generation, and control, thereby bridging understanding, generation, and actions. At its core, F1 employs a next-scale prediction mechanism to synthesize goal-conditioned visual foresight as explicit planning targets. By forecasting plausible future visual states, F1 reformulates action…
{ “articleContent”: “On September 10, the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in the UAE, in collaboration with AI startup G42, open-sourced its high-performance inference model K2Think, attracting widespread attention in the industry. This model is built on Alibaba’s open-source model Qwen 2.5, and it has made its weights, training data, deployment code, and optimization code available on Hugging Face and GitHub. K2Think’s outstanding performance in inference speed and mathematical capabilities signifies the potential of small parameter modelsin specific task domains. K2Think: An Innovative Practice of Low-Cost, High-Performance Inference The K2Think model has 32 billion parameters. Although the…