Author: Advanced AI Bot

News AI Coding Assistants Encroach on Copilot’s Special GitHub Relationship Microsoft had a great thing going when it had GitHub Copilot all to itself in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code thanks to its ownership of GitHub, but that’s eroding. That relationship resulted in a natural fit for AI-powered extensions that tightly integrate with the GitHub software development platform, but it’s no longer the exclusive province of Copilot. Soon came the specialized AI-powered coding assistants, which now number in the dozens, and even general-purpose systems backed by large foundational models are encroaching on the former monopoly. For example, the site…

Building an Employer Branding Strategy in an Uncertain EnvironmentThe shifting landscape of geopolitical and economic uncertainty is the new norm. How can talent and branding leaders build a strategy that is agile enough to withstand uncertainty?Introduction In today’s volatile job market flooded with “bot applicants,” it is ever more critical for organizations to focus on candidate quality versus quantity.  A change-proof employer brand and talent attraction strategy can help organizations stay focused on delivering top talent to fuel business growth. A strong employer branding strategy helps with the alignment of core beliefs and values between candidates, employees, and the organization.…

Google’s Gemini Live camera and screenshare functions, which let the conversational AI chatbot answer questions about the stuff you’re looking at in real-time, are rolling out now on Pixel 9 series phones and Samsung Galaxy S25 devices. The free update is also coming soon to other Android devices, but you’ll need to be a paid Gemini Advanced user to gain access.Once available on your device, you can activate the live video function at the push of a button and ask Gemini Live questions about whatever your camera can see. As demonstrated in Google’s April Pixel Drop video, you can do…

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries across the globe, the EU has taken significant strides to regulate its deployment, use and implementation and to mitigate associated risks. The 2024 AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), presented by the European Commission (EC) as “the first-ever comprehensive legal framework on AI worldwide,” creates a set of risk-based rules regarding specific uses of AI. It came into effect on August 1, 2024, and will be fully enforceable in August 2026. Certain provisions (mostly prohibition on use) took effect in advance, on February 2, 2025. On February 4 and 6, 2025, the European…

NVIDIA has announced a foundation AI model for humanoid robots called NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1, aka GR00T N1. The chip maker announced that this pre-trained AI model is available as open-source. The announcement came at the company’s annual GTC conference, which took place in San Jose, California, on March 18. NVIDIA has announced the GR00T N1, a foundation AI model for humanoid robots NVIDIA reportedly trained the GR00T N1 AI model on existing datasets and synthetically generated data. For those unaware, synthetic data is artificially created using computational methods and simulations and mimics the statistical properties of real-world data. The…

At re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Nova models, a new generation of foundation models (FMs), including Amazon Nova Reel, a video generation model that creates short videos from text descriptions and optional reference images (together, the “prompt”). Today, we introduce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation, compared to Amazon Nova Reel 1.0. This update lets you generate multi-shot videos up to 2-minutes in length with consistent style across shots. You can either provide a single prompt for up to a 2-minute video composed of 6-second shots, or design each shot individually…

onefinestay Cinephiles heading to Belize can vacation at six sprawling villas owned by renowned filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. Six homes from The Godfather director and co-writer’s Belizean estate have been added to rental brand onefinestay portfolio, allowing travelers to experience a luxury vacation with a difference. The Enchanted Cottage is a hidden hideaway for up to four people and designed by Coppola located in the heart of the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, a region that’s rich in Mayan history. Both the interiors and exteriors boast a rustic and whimsical charm, thanks to textured stone walls, emerald tiles and plenty…

Sanyu, Reclining Pink Nude with Raised Arms, 1930s/1940s, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 129.5 cm. Collection of Leo ShihPhoto courtesy of Leo Shih “City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s”, currently on view at National Gallery Singapore until August 17, 2025, is a groundbreaking exhibition that re-examines Parisian art history through the lens of Asian artists who lived and worked there during this transformative era. Featuring over 200 artworks – including paintings, sculptures, lacquerware and decorative arts – alongside rare archival materials, it showcases the contributions of prominent figures such as Foujita Tsuguharu, Georgette Chen, Lê Phổ, Liu Kang,…

A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…

PromptArmor is a startup out of California that tests genAI vendors for security risks such as ‘indirect prompt injection’, and 26 risk vectors overall. They’re focusing on legal, health, and other key sectors, and Artificial Lawyer caught up with them to learn more. San Francisco-based co-founder Shankar Krishnan told AL: ‘If a law firm is evaluating an AI vendor, they would send it to us. We would give them back a detailed risk report on the AI components of that vendor. We do that by testing those vendors for risks such as ‘indirect prompt injection’ which is a new security…