Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away

Alibaba Cloud launched HappyHorse 1.1, a new enterprise AI video model with full API access, as OpenAI’s Sora and ByteDance’s ...
The New York Times

Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility

It is unclear if the U.S. intentionally struck the facility or knew what it was. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. By Christoph Koettl and Christiaan ...
PCMag

I Used ChatGPT to Build Complex Spreadsheets Fast. Here’s How You Can, Too

Struggling with Excel or Google Sheets? My game-changing AI tips will save you hours on data entry and formula writing.
Reason

Data Centers Use Less Water Than Almond Farms—and Do More Good

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...
IEEE

Toolchain for Comprehensive Audio/Video Analysis Using Deep Learning Based Multimodal Approach: Use Case of Riot or Violent Context Detection

Abstract: In this paper, we present a toolchain for a comprehensive audio/video analysis by leveraging deep learning based multimodal approach. To this end, different specific tasks of Speech to Text ...
Science Daily

Scientists just found a way to store massive data using light in 3 dimensions

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...
Bleeping Computer

Video service Vimeo confirms Anodot breach exposed user data

Vimeo has disclosed that data belonging to some of its customers and users has been accessed without authorization following the recent breach at the Anodot data anomaly detection company. The video ...
VentureBeat

Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data

Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max — that ...
Newsweek

Immigration Attorneys Banned From Using Video Links

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Immigration benefits agency U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
The Washington Post

See why tech companies are paying people to do chores

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Silicon Valley’s next great leap may be built on videos of people ...
Yahoo

Video captures unbearable noise coming from Michigan data center: 'We loved it here, but now, I don't know'

Residents in Dowagiac, Michigan, are growing tired of the incessant noise coming from a nearby data center, and you really have to hear it to understand why. On Instagram, WWMT News Channel 3 ...
TechCrunch

Iran threatens ‘Stargate’ AI data centers

Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. Iran’s military said that if the U.S. went ahead with ...