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Wow, that's a tough situation for UKG employees in Florida. Imagine gearing up for a holiday weekend and then getting blindsided with news of massive layoffs. It's not just the number—2,200 employees, which is 14% of their workforce—but also how abruptly it was done, right before the Fourth of July.

Thousands of workers in Florida laid off by a major company

As one of the drivers of the generative artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is looking to a future in which everyone has their own AI. The next wave, Huang said, is enterprise AI, where everyone at a company “will have an AI assistant.”. “We hope that...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang teased what AI's next wave will be — and we may all end up with robot assistants

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents that can communicate with other AI agents will arrive by 2025, Pascal Brier, Capgemini's chief innovation officer, told CNBC. This "multi-agent AI" would entail a collection of agents that work together to solve tasks in a distributed and collaborative way, according to Capgemini. For example, an...

Autonomous AI workers that talk to each other will arrive in 2025, Capgemini predicts

There have been a lot of beneficiaries of the AI boom — phones, cars, people who are too exhausted to read emails — but none as surprising as the world of robotics. With the help of large language models like ChatGPT, companies like Figure are imbuing their bots with personality or supercharging their ability to understand multi-step commands. From Nvidia to Tesla’s Optimus, there’s clearly a robot renaissance happening and chatbots are firmly at the middle of it.

Google Shows Off AI-Powered Robots That Are Ready To Serve

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Figures including Sam Altman think a form of universal basic income, or UBI, could be a solution if artificial intelligence starts destroying jobs.

The tech industry wants to create an AI utopia. Its leaders think Universal Basic Income is the answer.

Mark Zuckerberg on Monday predicted a future where hundreds of millions of people regularly wear AI-powered smart glasses like Meta's Ray-Bans.

Mark Zuckerberg predicts a future where nearly everyone is wearing AI-powered smart glasses

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In a recent announcement, The Fresh Market, a beloved grocery chain in Florida, is bidding farewell to its Valrico location. The store, located in one of the fastest-growing areas of the U.S., has cited uncontrollable inflation as a driving force behind its closure, echoing broader economic challenges impacting even higher-end retailers.

A grocery chain in Florida is unexpectedly closing down

The text-to-image generator, which is trained on Getty’s stock pictures, now uses an upgraded version of Nvidia’s Edify AI model, making it faster and more accurate. It also comes with new features to control the “camera settings” used in an AI-generated image, such as depth of field or focal length.

Getty upgrades its AI image generator.

Nvidia is investing in an intriguing array of smaller AI companies. Arm and SoundHound AI are the more established of these businesses. Nano-X, Recursion, and TuSimple are the more speculative plays. SoundHound AI, Arm, Nano-X, Recursion, and TuSimple are all in Nvidia's portfolio. Nvidia (NVDA 2.69%) is one of the...

Nvidia Is Buying Shares of These 5 AI Companies. Should You Do the Same?

It’s one of the most common low-stakes annoyances in modern life: you flop down on the couch at the end of the day, finally with a few minutes to watch one of the dozens of incredible shows or movies you have access to thanks to the peak TV era and the advent of streaming, and you start scrolling. Instead of actually watching anything, you spend an interminable evening opening apps, aimlessly scrolling through endless rows of same-looking tiles. You eventually give up and watch The Office again.

In search of the perfect movie recommendation

The Financial Times takes a look at the latest generation of shoes with carbon-fiber plates that have helped deliver an uptick in record-smashing long-distance performances ever since the Nike Vaporfly was released in 2017. Other brands are now catching up with their own shoe tech:. Nike and Adidas are not...

Super shoe race.

REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate. AI is at a crossroads. Numerous innovation-derailing issues are convening simultaneously. The hurdles AI faces today include accuracy performance, copyright and data scraping lawsuits, escalating costs, massive energy consumption, job displacements, and predictions of an AI bubble bursting – just to name a few.

Real AI: Is AI running out of data, AI haters, instructive AI videos, headlines and quote of the week

Whatâs Next in AI: NVIDIAâs Jensen Huang Talks With WIREDâs Lauren Goode – YouTube. At this year’s Siggraph event, Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang sat down with Wired for an hour-long chat about all things Nvidia, RTX, and AI. Among the varied topics touched upon, including a recognition that AI training and inference have huge energy demands, was Huang’s assertion that more computers are going to be needed for AI systems in the future—specifically, three times more.

Nvidia’s CEO chats about the future of AI: ‘We’re going to need three computers… one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI’

Nvidia has invested in a handful of stocks over the past year, including Arm Holdings and SoundHound AI. According to a July 18 regulatory filing, Nvidia added to its position in little-known upstart Serve Robotics. Serve shares soared 225% following the news, but investors shouldn't rush to follow Nvidia's lead.

Meet the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock That Just Soared 225% Thanks to Nvidia

When you slow down escaping water to 82,000 frames per second, it looks unreal — like magic pixie dust glittering in the light. Here’s an entire hour of that. I’m mesmerized. Just the latest example of a slow-mo camera unlocking the fourth dimension; in this case, it’s...

Here’s an hour of shimmering water droplets exploding from a balloon in ultra slow motion.

A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers are proposing a bill to carve out Section 230 protection for tech companies that fail to remove intimate AI deepfakes from their platforms. Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) and Ashley Hinson (R-IA) unveiled the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, Politico first reported, “to combat cyberstalking, intimate...

Lawmakers want to carve out intimate AI deepfakes from Section 230 immunity

This viral photo of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina’s mid-air celebration from the 2024 Paris Olympics was suspected by some to be AI or Photoshop. But it’s just an excellently timed pic by photographer Jérôme Brouillet, and The Guardian has some background on how he anticipated the moment and nabbed it.

Who needs AI when humans can be this cool?

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LONDON — (AP) — Britain's competition watchdog said Tuesday it's looking into Google's partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, adding fresh regulatory scrutiny to investment money flooding into the AI industry. The Competition and Markets Authority said it's seeking comments as it considers whether the deal between the...

Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces scrutiny from UK competition watchdog

Nvidia has unveiled a suite of AI models and services to enable robotics developers to accelerate the development of humanoid robots. At the annual Siggraph event held in Colorado, Nvidia announced a host of new solutions to help manufacturers and developers “build the next generation of humanoid robots.”. “The...

Nvidia Unveils AI Tools to Accelerate Humanoid Robot Development

Before swapping leather jackets at their fireside chat, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang discussed the future of artificial intelligence — and it’s one where everyone has an AI assistant. Suggested Reading. Zuckerberg announced the wider roll out of Meta’s new platform, AI...

Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang see a future where everyone has an AI assistant

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Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data

Activision is sharing an open-source dataset pulled from Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training. “This...

Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data

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