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Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary. This article was written using Microsoft Word on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It is likely to be published on platforms hosted by Microsoft Azure, including LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary with over one billion users. In 2024, the company generated a net profit of $88 billion from sales worth $245 billion. Its stock market value is close to $3,000 billion, making it the world’s second-most valuable company behind Apple and almost on a par with NVidia. Cumulative profits since 2002 are approaching $640 billion. And yet, 50 years ago, Microsoft was just a tiny computer company founded in Albuquerque, New…

Media and entertainment executives are excited about the potential for AI to help their companies delight customers and realize greater profitability, with many focused on determining the best methods to take advantage of this technology. Why does this matter? For every $1 an organization invests in generative AI, they are realizing an average of 3.7x return.1 In recent research we commissioned through Devoncroft Partners, it became clear that media and entertainment customers are at different stages of adoption. “We were a launch customer for a customer service focused AI technology company. We expected it to drive tremendous savings versus historical,…

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. New York CNN  —  The A.I. doomsday clock appears ready to strike midnight for publishers. Google on Tuesday announced that it will infuse its ubiquitous search engine with its powerful artificial intelligence model, Gemini, drawing on the rapidly advancing technology to directly answer user queries at the top of results pages. “Google will do the Googling for you,” the company explained. In other words, users will soon no longer have to click on the links displayed in…

[Submitted on 23 Jan 2025 (v1), last revised 1 Apr 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Scalable Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent System, by Haikuo Du and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Safety and scalability are two critical challenges faced by practical Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). However, existing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms that rely solely on reward shaping are ineffective in ensuring safety, and their scalability is rather limited due to the fixed-size network output. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework, Scalable Safe MARL (SS-MARL), to enhance the safety…

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly recommending extreme cuts to staff and programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the New York Times reported Tuesday evening. NEH employees were informed by managers on Tuesday morning of DOGE’s recommended reductions to the staff by as much as 70 to 80 percent of the organization’s 180 staffers, as well as the possible cancellation of all outstanding grants made under the Biden administration. Senior leadership is expected to provide more detailed plans. Related Articles Only three weeks ago, the head of the NEH Shelly Lowe was forced to…

Every day, countless videos are uploaded and processed online, putting enormous strain on computational resources. The problem isn’t just the sheer volume of data—it’s how this data is structured. Videos consist of raw pixel data, where neighboring pixels often store nearly identical information. This redundancy wastes resources, making it harder for systems to process visual content effectively and efficiently. To tackle this, we’ve developed a new approach to compress visual data into a more compact and manageable form. In our paper “VidTok: A Versatile and Open-Source Video Tokenizer,” we introduce a method that converts video data into smaller, structured units,…

Producing video content is a particular challenge for generative AI models, which have no real concept of space or physics, and are essentially dreaming up clips frame by frame. It can lead to obvious errors and inconsistencies, as we wrote about in December with OpenAI’s Sora, after it served up a video with a disappearing taxi.It’s these specific problems that AI video company Runway says it’s made some progress in fixing with its new Gen-4 models. The new models offer “a new generation of consistent and controllable media” according to Runway, with characters, objects, and scenes now much more likely…

Sentient, an artificial intelligence development platform backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, has released an open-source AI search framework that it says outperforms leading closed-source competitors.The company announced the public release of Open Deep Search (ODS) on April 2, describing it as a high-performance, developer-friendly alternative to platforms like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.Sentient’s ODS aims to empower developers with open-source “Loyal AI” models, which Sentient says preserve the original intent of their developers.The firm’s fingerprinting technology allows developers to protect intellectual property while maintaining model openness — aiming to solve the biggest issue of open-source AI, the challenges of…

Counterpoint Research has estimated that Chinese automaker BYD will be able to overtake American electric car maker Tesla in Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) sales this 2025. Counterpoint’s insights were shared by the market researcher on its official website. The (Counter)Point Counterpoint Research’s latest Global Passenger EV Forecast suggests that BYD will be capturing a 15.7% global market share this year. This is expected to be driven by scale, innovation, and strong backing from the Chinese government. The market researcher highlighted a number of factors that could help BYD become the world’s premier BEV maker this year. These include the company’s…

Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…