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There’s a quiet magic in every Studio Ghibli film, a beauty that lingers long after the credits roll. It’s in the way Chihiro stumbles while putting on her shoes in Spirited Away, a small but deliberate touch of realism. It’s in the four-second earthquake sequence in The Wind Rises, which took animator Eiji Yamamori over a year to complete, frame by painstaking frame. It’s in the way light filters through the trees in My Neighbor Totoro, reminding us that sometimes, the simplest moments are the most profound. Ghibli’s animation isn’t just about looking beautiful; it’s about feeling alive.And yet, with…

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), recently made a surprising revelation regarding artificial intelligence and older computing systems. Speaking at an event, he disclosed that a small Llama AI model was successfully run on a Dell PC from the Windows 98 era. The revelation has sparked discussions about whether human-like interactions with computers could have been achieved decades ago.Could Conversational AI Have Existed 30 Years Ago?Andreessen suggested that the technology necessary for natural, intelligent conversations with computers might have been within reach much earlier than previously thought. “All of those old PCs could literally have…

AnthropicLarge organizations wanting to integrate generative AI into their business can find the process daunting, especially if they’re unsure how or where to start. A new initiative with Anthropic’s Claude AI aims to provide the tools for enterprises struggling with this challenge.In a new five-year partnership announced Thursday, Anthropic and AI company Databricks will offer Claude AI models through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, which helps businesses use AI with their internal data. The deal will bring the tools and technology to more than 10,000 companies.Also: Navigating AI-powered cyber threats: 4 expert security tips for businessesAnthropic’s latest Claude 3.7 Sonnet…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Isomorphic Labs, the drug discovery start-up spun out of Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, has raised $600mn in its first external funding round, as investors bet on the potential for AI to “solve disease”. The fundraising for the London-based group, whose chief executive is Nobel Prize winner Sir Demis Hassabis, was led by Thrive Capital, the New York-based investor that is also among the biggest backers of ChatGPT maker OpenAI.The round, announced on Monday, was also joined by GV, the venture capital…

OpenAI said on Monday that it had completed a $40 billion fund-raising deal that nearly doubles the high-profile company’s valuation from just six months ago.The new fund-raising round, led by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, values OpenAI at $300 billion, making it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, along with the rocket company SpaceX and ByteDance, the maker of TikTok.OpenAI started the artificial intelligence boom in late 2022 with the release of its online chatbot, ChatGPT. Its latest investment round indicates that the tech industry’s excitement over A.I. remains strong, even amid concerns about the effectiveness and…

La Salle didn’t reach the NCAA Tournament across Jack Clark’s three seasons with the Explorers after the Pennsylvania native entered college as a mere two-star prospect back in the 2018 recruiting cycle. But he’s been part of March Madness in all three campaigns since, debuting with three points and 10 rebounds in the 2022-23 NC State basketball team’s Round of 64 loss to Creighton.ALSO READ: Potential Threat to NC State Pursuit of McNeese State’s Will WadeClark transferred following that season in Raleigh. Even so, the 6-foot-10, 215-pound versatile forward returned to the Big Dance last year, recording his first three…

I Watsonx AI IBM generative AI platform displayed on a smartphone. On 10 August 2023 in Brussels, … More Belgium. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty Images BM has rapidly established itself as a serious enterprise AI contender. It combines a full-stack platform strategy, proprietary models, deep integration with Red Hat hybrid cloud infrastructure, and global consulting scale. It’s executing a multi-pronged approach that is already delivering operational leverage and financial upside. Its approach is paying off. In its most recent earnings, IBM disclosed that it’d grown its book of AI-related business to $5 billion in…

arXiv:2503.22658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Super-resolution, in-painting, whole-image generation, unpaired style-transfer, and network-constrained image reconstruction each include an aspect of machine-learned image synthesis where the actual ground truth is not known at time of use. It is generally difficult to quantitatively and authoritatively evaluate the quality of synthetic images; however, in mission-critical biomedical scenarios robust evaluation is paramount. In this work, all practical image-to-image comparisons really are relative qualifications, not absolute difference quantifications; and, therefore, meaningful evaluation of generated image quality can be accomplished using the Tversky Index, which is a well-established measure for assessing perceptual similarity. This evaluation procedure…

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…

Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance on IBM IBM. And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga. Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don’t know. But when something this big happens with IBM, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen. So how do we know what these investors just did? Today, Benzinga’s options scanner spotted 47 uncommon options trades for IBM. This isn’t normal. The overall sentiment of these big-money…