Author: Advanced AI Editor

We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained compute and memory quota allocation with HyperPod task governance. With this capability, customers can optimize Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cluster utilization on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), distribute fair usage, and support efficient resource allocation across different teams or projects. For more information, see HyperPod task governance best practices for maximizing the value of SageMaker HyperPod task governance. Compute quota management is an administrative mechanism that sets and controls compute resource limits across users, teams, and projects. It controls fair resource distribution, preventing a single entity from monopolizing cluster resources, thereby optimizing overall…

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. ASML (NASDAQ:ASML) is about to make a big move into artificial intelligence. The Dutch chip equipment maker is preparing to pour 1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) into French startup Mistral AI’s latest fundraising, Reuters reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the talks. The investment would anchor Mistral’s 1.7 billion ($2 billion) Series C round and give ASML both a major equity stake and a board seat. The deal would value Mistral at about 10 billion ($11.7 billion) before new money, making it Europe’s most valuable AI startup and a stronger rival to U.S. players like…

Barbara Jakobson, an iconic collector who was known for wide-reaching web of relationships with artists, dealers, and curators, died at 92 on August 25 in Manhattan. The cause was pneumonia, according to the New York Times. Jakobson, who appeared on ARTnews’s Top 200 Collectors list three times, from 1990 to 1992, was a central figure of the New York art world for decades. She had close relationships with some of the era’s top dealers, including Sidney Janis, Ileana Sonnabend, and Leo Castelli. She was also a longtime trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, joining its Junior Council in the…

Several writers last year filed a lawsuit against Anthropic alleging that its AI assistant Claude had infringed copyright. It trained its large language models on their works — pirated fiction and nonfiction books. Shadow libraries, unauthorized online repositories, or databases, of books, academic articles, and other content were used.Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to some 500,000 authors whose work trained the models without permission. The request for a preliminary approval was filed Friday with a San Francisco federal judge, but this involuntary training or copyright theft is not what caught my attention to the illegal use of content to train large language…

On Monday, the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee reportedly obtained a drawing that it said was made by President Donald Trump of a naked woman, the Wall Street Journal reported. The drawing is accompanied by a birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019. The message is signed at the bottom with a signature that looks similar to how Trump typically signs his first name. The Wall Street Journal previously reported on the existence of the drawing in July, noting that it appeared in a leather-bound compiled for Epstein’s 50th…

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is backing the production of a feature-length animated film created largely with artificial intelligence tools, aiming to prove the technology can revolutionize Hollywood filmmaking with faster timelines and lower costs.The movie, titled “Critterz,” follows woodland creatures on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger, with producers hoping to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026 before a global theatrical release, they said in statement on Monday.The project has a budget of under $30 million and a production timeline of just nine months — a fraction of the typical $100-200 million cost and three-year…

Cognition AI, the startup behind AI coding agent Devin, has hit a $10.2 billion valuation after raising $400 million, marking a jump from the company’s $4 billion valuation earlier this year, reports Bloomberg.  Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures. In July, Cognition acquired AI coding startup Windsurf, just days after Google poached the startup’s CEO, co-founder, and research leads. The raise comes after serious growth for Cognition’s core product. The startup’s annual recurring revenue from Devin has climbed…

Galerie Gmurzynska will soon relocate its New York operations to the Fuller Building, at 595 Madison Avenue. The gallery moved into its previous space, at 43 East 78th Street, in 2018; its last show their, per its website, closed at the end of May. Its forthcoming move brings the gallery into the storied Art Deco–style building with an equally important art historical connection. The Fuller was once a hub for New York’s galleries, with previous tenants including Pierre Matisse Gallery, Charles Egan Gallery, André Emmerich, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Hammer Galleries, Tibor de Nagy, and Robert Miller, among others. (The building was…

Salesforce has cut 4,000 customer support jobs and replaced them with artificial intelligence (AI) agents, CEO Marc Benioff said recently.  Benioff made the comments while discussing how the new technology is impacting the $248 billion computer software company’s headcount during an appearance on “The Logan Bartlett Show” podcast that was published on Friday. “I was able to rebalance my headcount on my support,” Benioff said. “I’ve reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads.” AI has been a boon for Salesforce, with the firm offering Agentforce and other AI-powered tools to its customers and for other…

As Meta’s Edits video app continues to add new features, TikTok’s CapCut is also rolling out some new options, as it seeks to maintain its place as a top video editing app. First off, CapCut recently added a new LinkedIn integration, which enables CapCut users to export videos from CapCut to LinkedIn direct. As you can see in these example screens, posted by social media expert Lindsay Gamble, CapCut’s composer now has a LinkedIn sharing button to facilitate easy posting, so you can easily transition your CapCut creations across to the professional social network. As per LinkedIn: “Now, after you…