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Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Private equity firms Kingswood Capital Management and Performance Investment Partners on Wednesday announced they’ve agreed to acquire The Vitamin Shoppe from Franchise Group. Franchise Group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November, is selling the Vitamin Shoppe for $193.5 million, Kingswood Capital Management confirmed to Retail Dive. The deal is expected to close on or shortly after the agreement close date of May 15, as the “judge should rule on the sale order before then,” per a company spokesperson. …
Determining how best to incorporate AI in your reporting can be daunting. For journalists and small newsrooms navigating tight deadlines and limited resources, harnessing AI tools to carry out time consuming tasks can be pivotal. For students developing a foundational skill set for future reporting careers, the technology can’t be ignored. Think of AI tools similarly to how you do common applications like Microsoft Excel or Adobe Photoshop: AI can help free up time, which you can in turn dedicate to more in-depth reporting, and more creative writing, visuals and marketing, among other perks. However, a 2024 survey by the…
Table of Contents Table of Contents Headset and glasses When can we buy it? Will it arrive too late? At a recent TED talk, Google’s exciting XR smartglasses were demonstrated to the public for the very first time. While we’ve seen the smartglasses before, it has always been in highly polished videos showcasing Project Astra, where we never get a true feel for the features and functionality in the real world. All that has now changed, and our first glimpse of the future is very exciting. However, future is very much the operative word. The demonstration of what the smartglasses…
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…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: As part of its continued store expansion strategy, Barnes & Noble plans to open more than 60 new locations in 2025, according to a press release Wednesday. The company is set to open four new locations this month alone, in Illinois, New York, Florida and Nebraska. The move comes after Barnes & Noble opened 57 stores in 2024 and acquired Tattered Cover’s four stores in Colorado, the company told Retail Dive via email. Barnes & Noble says this totaled more…
Movie Audio Description (AD) aims to narrate visual content during dialogue-free segments, particularly benefiting blind and visually impaired (BVI) audiences. Compared with general video captioning, AD demands plot-relevant narration with explicit character name references, posing unique challenges in movie understanding.To identify active main characters and focus on storyline-relevant regions, we propose FocusedAD, a novel framework that delivers character-centric movie audio descriptions. It includes: (i) a Character Perception Module(CPM) for tracking character regions and linking them to names; (ii) a Dynamic Prior Module(DPM) that injects contextual cues from prior ADs and subtitles via learnable soft prompts; and (iii) a Focused Caption…
Robert Legato – the respected VFX innovator who won Oscars for “Titanic,” “Hugo” and “The Jungle Book” – has joined Stability AI at chief pipeline architect. In doing so, he reteams with James Cameron, an influential board member for the AI firm. Legato is credited with creating the virtual cinematography pipeline for Cameron’s “Avatar,” which went on to surpass the director’s “Titanic” as the highest grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion at the worldwide box office. Legato’s pioneering work has also included “Apollo 13,” “The Aviator,” and the virtual production of “The Lion King.” He’s also held roles…
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 8 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It’s been another week with far more retail news than there is time in the day. Below, we break down some things you may have missed during the week and what we’re still thinking about. From Revlon naming a president of North America to LoveShackFancy’s summer collab, here’s our closeout for the week. What you may have missed Under Armour adds private equity exec to board of directors As one of three additions to its board of directors Tuesday, Under Armour said…
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…