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Researchers from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), MIT’s Media Lab, the Brazilian university UFABC, and the pandemic prevention non-profit SecureBio have found that leading artificial intelligence models can outperform experienced, PhD-level virologists in troubleshooting complex laboratory procedures. The findings, detailed in a new study introducing the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), demonstrate AI’s proficiency in specialized scientific tasks but also highlight serious dual-use concerns, suggesting these tools could lower the barrier for creating dangerous biological agents. The VCT benchmark, consisting of 322 questions and detailed further in its research paper, was designed specifically to measure an AI’s ability to assist…
In the preceding three months, 8 analysts have released ratings for C3.ai AI, presenting a wide array of perspectives from bullish to bearish. In the table below, you’ll find a summary of their recent ratings, revealing the shifting sentiments over the past 30 days and comparing them to the previous months. Bullish Somewhat Bullish Indifferent Somewhat Bearish Bearish Total Ratings 0 0 4 4 0 Last 30D 0 0 0 1 0 1M Ago 0 0 1 1 0 2M Ago 0 0 3 2 0 3M Ago 0 0 0 0 0 Analysts have set 12-month price targets for…
Controllable character animation remains a challenging problem, particularly in handling rare poses, stylized characters, character-object interactions, complex illumination, and dynamic scenes. To tackle these issues, prior work has largely focused on injecting pose and appearance guidance via elaborate bypass networks, but often struggles to generalize to open-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose a new perspective that, as long as the foundation model is powerful enough, straightforward model modifications with flexible fine-tuning strategies can largely address the above challenges, taking a step towards controllable character animation in the wild. Specifically, we introduce RealisDance-DiT, built upon the Wan-2.1 video foundation model.…
Emerging technology, when first being presented to the public-at-large, is bound to get people fearful and protective of the status quo. Such is the current case with AI and its practical application in multiple industries, particularly in the space of visual media arts, but rather than turn away, renowned filmmaker and technological innovator James Cameron is choosing to lean in. Last year, he joined the board of the generative AI company Stability AI and during a recent interview on the “Boz to the Future” podcast, he explained how the tech’s ability to shorten VFX workflow could truly be a game-changer…
If you are interested in building your very own local deep research AI assistant, you might be interested in Google’s Gemma 3 AI models. They represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering a compact yet robust solution tailored for local deployment. Derived from the larger Gemini series, these models combine high performance with a strong emphasis on privacy and accessibility. Featuring multimodal capabilities, support for 140 languages, and the ability to generate structured outputs, Gemma 3 is engineered to meet diverse AI research assistant and productivity demands. These models are open source and optimized for local use, allowing you…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Beginning June 3, Nordstrom is updating its Nordy Club terms and conditions with additional ways for members to receive discounts and other benefits, most notably at its Nordstrom Rack locations. Customers will no longer be able to earn points on purchases at Nordstrom Rack stores, its website or Last Chance stores, according to a Nordstrom spokesperson. Instead, customers can receive a 5% discount at Nordstrom Rack, its website and app when they use their Nordstrom credit card on eligible purchases. Card members…
One pressing question at the artificial-intelligence (AI) summit in Paris this week was this: is Mistral AI’s assistant a cat, or a chat? Called Le Chat and developed by a French startup as a competitor to ChatGPT, it launched as a smartphone app on February 6th. To the English speaker, Le Chat looks like a French twist on AI chat, which it conducts in English (and other languages). Yet at the jamboree President Emmanuel Macron plugged it using a soft “sh”, rendering Le Chat distinctly feline. Arthur Mensch, Mistral’s 32-year-old boss, says his baby is indeed four-legged. Look carefully at…
Google is guilty. So, now what?Last summer, Google lost a landmark antitrust case. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta declared that “Google is a monopolist,” finding the company acted illegally to maintain dominance over the search engine market. SEE ALSO: Google just lost a big antitrust case for running illegal ad tech monopoly Now, Google is back in court — this time for the remedy phase of the case, where the U.S. government argues what actions Google should be forced to take to dismantle its monopoly. The Department of Justice (DOJ) wants to break up the tech giant. Google is fighting…
Until recently few outside southern Guangdong had heard of Mililing, a quiet rural village with fewer than 700 residents, according to The Times of India.That changed earlier this year when hundreds of visitors began arriving daily to see the birthplace of Liang, the 40-year-old founder and CEO of DeepSeek, whose breakthroughs in AI have made him both a national icon and a global tech titan.The once-sleepy village has since transformed. Locals now run drink and souvenir stalls near Liang’s childhood home. “Some visitors take away piles of soil, stones or pieces of leaves,” a resident told the South China Morning…
Startup Deep Cogito Inc. launched today with a series of language models that it claims can outperform comparably sized open-source alternatives. According to TechCrunch, the company was founded last June by former Google LLC staffers Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malhotra. Arora worked as a senior software engineer at the search giant. Malhotra, in turn, was a product manager at the Google DeepMind machine learning lab. The duo have raised an undisclosed amount of funding from South Park Commons. Deep Cogito’s lineup of open-source language models is known as the Cogito v1 series. The algorithms are available in five sizes ranging…