Author: Advanced AI Editor
Prompt: The camera spirals down through an infinite network of glowing threads, pulsating with multicolored light. The setting feels alive, each thread thrumming with faint whispers and bursts of imagery—fractals, mythological beasts, and celestial maps. The courier darts through the maze, their silhouette painted with the kaleidoscopic glow of the fibers. As they weave between strands, their every touch triggers animations—one a glowing phoenix, another a blooming lotus—until they stumble upon a massive, golden thread. It flares, and a holographic figure emerges: a younger version of themselves, surrounded by fiery glyphs. The scene shifts between soft, glowing pastels and brilliant,…
Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of several ads that will appear in print and online.Each ad has phrases like, “Keep Watch On AI,” “Stop AI Theft,” and “AI Steals From You Too,” while the text on the bottom reads: “Stealing is un-American. Tell Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes.”…
Hundreds of publishers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Verge parent company Vox Media, are running an ad campaign this week urging the government to protect content from AI. The campaign, called Support Responsible AI, is run by the News/Media Alliance trade association and consists of several ads that will appear in print and online.Each ad has phrases like, “Keep Watch On AI,” “Stop AI Theft,” and “AI Steals From You Too,” while the text on the bottom reads: “Stealing is un-American. Tell Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes.”…
A study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) has revealed a rather disturbing trend in the United States. Based on the study, it appears that a growing number of people are willing to justify or even applaud the idea of killing people like Elon Musk or Donald Trump. A notable number of the study’s respondents also stated that they find it partially acceptable to destroy Tesla stores as a form of protest. The NCRI Study The NCRI’s study was initiated to determine people’s support for political violence. As per the organization, calls for political violence towards people like Trump…
Sam Altman, Mark Chen, Hongyu Ren, and special guest Greg Kamradt, President of ARC Prize Foundation, introduce and discuss OpenAI o3, o3-mini, along with a call for safety testing and a new alignment strategy for o-series models. source
Beijing, China, April 8, 2025 — Kuaishou’s Kling AI, an advanced AI-powered image and video generator renowned for generating physically accurate simulations and amplifying imaginative possibilities, now introduces pioneering upgrades. Thoughtfully designed to give creators more control, flexibility, and freedom to bring their ideas to life, the latest features include intuitive tools for sound design, seamless video extension, seasonal visual effects, and much more — all crafted to elevate the creative process and make storytelling feel effortless. Video: https://youtu.be/YJ6_-9hgOq4 Enhanced Productivity Suite Kling AI’s redesigned minimalist interface streamlines creative workflows with a quick-access side menu for tool switching, seamless…
“Michael Tracy: The Elegy of Distance” installation view at McNay Art Museum in San Antonio.McNay Art Museum, photo by Jacklyn Velez. “Michael Tracy: The Elegy of Distance” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio shares more than the artist’s work, it shares his world. San Ygnacio, TX, where Tracy (1943-2024) lived and located his studio beginning in 1978. The Texas-Mexico borderlands. Mexico City, where he also had a studio, spending a great deal of time there beginning in the 1970s. India, where he traveled regularly for two decades, making jewelry. “It’s very much an environmental experience,” exhibition curator René…
A former Tesla executive who departed last year is now aiming to raise funding for a new energy startup, which is set to help build next-generation grid hardware. Drew Baglino, Tesla’s former SVP of Powertrain and Energy, is aiming to raise $30 to $50 million in Series A funding for his new startup, Heron Power, according to three sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Axios. Heron is set to produce next-generation transformers for electrical grids, and two of the sources say the company began raising funding last month. The funding round is likely to be led by Capricorn…
The release of OpenAI’s new image generator sparked a tsunami of Studio Ghibli-style memes and raised copyright concerns, but Sam Altman thinks AI art is a “net win” for society. In an interview published Sunday on YouTube by the founder and content creator Varun Mayya, Altman said AI can expand creativity by lowering the barriers to entry.Mayya asked Altman about the backlash to AI-generated art, referencing a recently resurfaced video of Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki rejecting an AI animation of a creature. In the 2016 clip, Miyazaki said, “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”Altman, however,…
Google’s AI-generated search answers have reportedly not been good for independent websites. Those answers, along with Google’s alterations to its search algorithm in support of them, have caused traffic to those websites to plunge, Bloomberg News reported Monday (April 7), citing interviews with 25 publishers and people working with them. The changes, Bloomberg said, threaten a “delicate symbiotic relationship” between businesses and Google: they generate good content, and the tech giant sends them traffic. According to the report, many publishers said they either need to shut down or revamp their distribution strategy. Experts this effort could ultimately reduce the quality…