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Midjourney CEO David Holz unveiled the company's first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasound scanner developed with Butterfly Network. The device uses 40 ultrasound modules to create 3D body co…
A software founder details how local Qwen models have provided real value for his business, paying for a GPU within months, but warns of infinite loops and hallucination risks, especially when quantized for consumer hard…
Forrester announced full agendas for its AI Forum Singapore and AI Forum Sydney, both themed 'AI Into Action: Unlock Your Opportunity,' to help enterprise leaders scale AI deployments. The events, scheduled for August 20…
DeepAI, a generative AI platform founded in 2017 by Kevin Baragona, bundles text-to-image, video, music, chat, and developer APIs under a freemium model with a Pro subscription at $9.99/month. Generated images on the fre…
David Holz's Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical, a full-body ultrasound scanner that uses sound waves to create 3D body maps in under 60 seconds. The self-funded AI lab is moving from image generation into medical h…
Noam Shazeer, a Google veteran and founder of Character.AI, is leaving Google to join OpenAI, marking another major talent reshuffle in the AI industry. Shazeer co-led Google's Gemini project and co-authored a seminal 20…
Noam Shazeer, VP of engineering at Google and co-lead of Gemini, announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer previously founded Character.ai and returned to Google in 2024 via a licensing deal. His departure m…
RichInto launched a suite of free online calculators for creators, freelancers, and solo businesses to estimate AI tool ROI, pricing, sponsorship rates, software costs, and digital product profit. The tools provide real-…
Global investors are increasingly splitting Chinese tech stocks into AI winners and losers, with a pair trade strategy going long on Alibaba and short on Meituan returning around 130% year-to-date. The trade is driven by…
A Hacker News user argues that AI models are built on publicly available human-generated content, and therefore their weights should be treated like patents with limited exclusivity rather than being kept proprietary ind…
Snap unveiled its long-awaited consumer AR glasses, Specs, at a spatial AI convention in Long Beach, priced at $2,195. The glasses feature on-device computing, contextual AI, and multiplayer gaming, but their high price …
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the foundational 'Attention Is All You Need' paper, is reportedly joining OpenAI after departing Google, marking a major talent shift in AI. Shazeer had returned to Google in 2024 via a $2.7 bi…
Sovereign AI—end-to-end ownership of data, model, and interaction layer—is becoming a strategic imperative for organizations of all sizes, not just nations. McKinsey predicts a $600 billion market by 2030, with 71% of ex…
Sam Altman outbid Elon Musk to recruit Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture, for Google's Gemini initiative. Shazeer's return to Google follows a $2.7 billion licensing deal for his startup Character…
Bitzero Holdings, a Bitcoin miner turned data center operator, has secured over 1 GW of low-cost power at roughly $0.02/kWh across sites in Norway, Finland, and North Dakota, positioning itself for the AI infrastructure …
Z.AI, formerly Zhipu AI, released GLM 5.2, an open-weight language model that outperforms GPT 5.5 on design benchmarks. The model features multi-token prediction and offers API access and self-hosting options at lower co…
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model under MIT license that scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one point at roughly a sixth of the cost. The mode…
A guide advises aspiring AI freelancers to land their first client by leveraging existing connections rather than buying expensive courses. It recommends identifying a warm lead's repetitive problem, offering a free low-…
Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture and co-lead of Google's Gemini program, is leaving Google to join OpenAI, despite Google paying approximately $2.7 billion to retain him less than two years ago. …
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weights AI model under an MIT license, positioning it between Claude Opus 4.7 and 4.8 in performance while costing less than a fifth of Opus on output tokens. The model features a 1M-token …