Author: Advanced AI Editor

“There is no fare product Delta has ever used, is testing or plans to use that targets customers with individualized offers based on personal information or otherwise,” Delta said. “A variety of market forces drive the dynamic pricing model that’s been used in the global industry for decades, with new tech simply streamlining this process. Delta always complies with regulations around pricing and disclosures.” Other companies “engaging in surveillance-based price setting” include giants like Amazon and Kroger, as well as a ride-sharing app that has been “charging a customer more when their phone battery is low.” Public Citizen, a progressive…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Sizable startup funding announcements continued to roll in this week, with the largest rounds coming in the form of growth equity investments to Quavo Fraud & Dispute Solutions and Vanta, two companies in the dispute and risk management spaces. We also saw good-sized financings…

ChatGPT users may want to think twice before turning to their AI app for therapy or other kinds of emotional support. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the AI industry hasn’t yet figured out how to protect user privacy when it comes to these more sensitive conversations, because there’s no doctor-patient confidentiality when your doc is an AI. The exec made these comments on a recent episode of Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von. In response to a question about how AI works with today’s legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having…

Artist Anish Kapoor is selling his New York apartment in Tribeca for $17.75 million, reports New York Post. At the building’s base sits the artist’s smaller iteration of his famous Cloud Gate, the reflective bean-shaped sculpture on public display in Chicago. The 57-story-tall 56 Leonard Street apartment for sale by Kapoor is located on the 47th floor and features 3,576-square-feet of living space, including four bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms with 12-foot ceilings and windows.  The main bedroom suite features a walk-in closet and a travertine marble bath with heated floors. It also boasts a private elevator landing, three private outdoor spaces,…

Job postings for HR roles that require artificial intelligence skills had a 66% growth rate as of 2024, as the growth in generative AI roles across non-tech industries has jumped a staggering 800% rise since 2022.HR job functions had the fastest AI growth, despite only two per cent of HR job postings requiring AI skills, according to the latest report from labour market intelligence firm Lightcast.Its growth is driven primarily by frontline roles rather than management positions.”Unlike other functions where AI adoption flows from leadership down (with high demand for managers and lower demand for less-senior workers), HR’s transformation is…

Despite concerns over the environmental impacts of AI models, it’s surprisingly hard to find precise, reliable data on the CO2 emissions and water use for many major large language models. French model-maker Mistral is seeking to fix that this week, releasing details from what it calls a first-of-its-kind environmental audit “to quantify the environmental impacts of our LLMs.” The results, which are broadly in line with estimates from previous scholarly work, suggest the environmental harm of any single AI query is relatively small compared to many other common Internet tasks. But with billions of AI prompts taxing GPUs every year,…

Captain Cinema generates high-quality short movies from textual descriptions using top-down keyframe planning and bottom-up video synthesis with interleaved training of Multimodal Diffusion Transformers. We present Captain Cinema, a generation framework for short movie generation. Given a detailed textual description of a movie storyline, our approach firstly generates a sequence of keyframes that outline the entire narrative, which ensures long-range coherence in both the storyline and visual appearance (e.g., scenes and characters). We refer to this step as top-down keyframe planning. These keyframes then serve as conditioning signals for a video synthesis model, which supports long context learning, to produce…

Stability AI and AMD have launched a new version of the Stable Diffusion 3 Medium image generator, specifically built to run locally on laptops. Announced this week, the model is optimized for PCs with AMD’s new Ryzen AI 300-series chips and XDNA 2 neural processing units (NPUs). This collaboration allows users to create high-quality images directly on their device without needing an internet connection. The release marks the first use of a special Block FP16 format on an NPU, a design that balances image quality with fast, on-device performance. The tool is available now through the Amuse 3.1 software. The…

22Software Development is excited to announce the introduction of AI Agents, a revolutionary new service designed to transform the way businesses operate. Now live at https://22software.com/ai-agent/, this service enables companies to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and automate a wide variety of tasks.With AI becoming an integral part of modern business strategies, 22Software’s AI Agents offer a comprehensive range of solutions tailored to different industry needs. From automating customer service and sales interactions to enabling advanced data processing and decision-making, these AI-driven agents are designed to handle complex tasks efficiently and effectively.”We…

(Yicai) July 25 — Since Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot DeepSeek went viral, many brands have started to notice huge online traffic through their AI chat platforms, Yicai learned from industry insiders. As a result, many companies are adjusting their marketing strategies away from traditional search engine optimization to generative engine optimization, which focuses on crafting content designed to appear in AI-generated responses.GEO is a new marketing service where ad agencies help companies create content that is more likely to be picked up by AI chatbots and included in their answers to users’ questions.Users might not be aware that AI recommendations…