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Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn
24Aug By adminNo Comments
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Google and Microsoft Are Supercharging AI Deepfake Porn

[ad_1] When fans of Kaitlyn Siragusa, a popular 29-year-old internet personality known as Amouranth, want to watch her play video games, they will subscribe for $5 a month to her channel on Amazon.com Inc.'s Twitch. When they want to watch her perform adult content, they'll subscribe for $15 a month for access to her explicit OnlyFans page.And when they want to watch her do things she is not doing and has never done, for free, they'll search on Google for so-called “deepfakes” — videos made with artificial intelligence that fabricate a lifelike simulation of a sexual act featuring the face of a real woman. Siragusa, a frequent target of deepfake creators, said each time her staff finds something new on the search engine, they file a complaint with Google and fill out a form requesting t...
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Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, its latest image generator; Know all about it
27Jul By adminNo Comments
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Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, its latest image generator; Know all about it

[ad_1] With each day passing, we are seeing more generative AI platforms being introduced. As these tools are made easily accessible the competition within the market has grown with competitors like Midjourney and Adobe. Keeping the ever-growing user demand in mind, Stability AI has launched its improved version of the image generation model, Stable Diffusion XL 1.0. The company claims that the current model is its most advanced offering in the segment. However, there are some ethical issues still persistent in the model.According to a Tech Crunch report, Stability AI launched a text-to-image model called Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, which it claimed to be the “most advanced” tool released now. The platform is available in open source in GitHub alongside Stability's API and consumer apps, C...
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Amazon Prime Day Isn’t the Catalyst It Used to Be
11Jul By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Prime Day Isn’t the Catalyst It Used to Be

[ad_1] Ace was for the stock, as investor focus shifts to the company's faster-growing and profitable cloud-computing unit.mazon.com Inc.'s annual Prime Day shows that e-commerce isn't the driver it onIn the past four years, the stock has fallen in the week of the two-day sale in which the retail giant discounts swathes of items. The first four years beginning in 2015 saw Amazon shares average a gain of more than 2% in the week of the event, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The focus on cloud computing has only increased as Amazon Web Services grew into the company's main source of operating income, amid greater investor scrutiny over who stands to benefit most from the rollout of artificial intelligence applications. “Most people invest in Amazon for both” e-commerce and AWS, E...
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Lina Khan is coming for Amazon, armed with an FTC antitrust suit
29Jun By adminNo Comments
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Lina Khan is coming for Amazon, armed with an FTC antitrust suit

[ad_1] Lina Khan's Federal Trade Commission has already filed three cases against Amazon.com Inc. Now she's gearing up for the Big One.In the coming weeks, the agency plans to file a far-reaching antitrust suit focused on Amazon's core online marketplace, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and three people familiar with the case. The main allegation is expected to be that Amazon leverages its power to reward online merchants that use its logistics services and punish those who don't. FTC investigators and Khan's office have been honing the complaint for several months, two of the people said, and finalizing key details such as where to file suit. Khan and her colleagues are keen to file before personnel changes in August, according to the people, who cautioned that the timing ...
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Amazon Is Spending $100 Million to Teach Cloud Customers About AI
23Jun By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Is Spending $100 Million to Teach Cloud Customers About AI

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit is building a program to help customers develop and deploy new kinds of artificial intelligence products as the biggest seller of cloud services tries to match Microsoft and Google in the market for so-called generative AI.Amazon Web Services is investing $100 million to set up the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, which will link customers with company experts in AI and machine learning. They'll help a range of clients in health care, financial services and manufacturing build customized applications using the new technology. Highspot Inc. and Twilio Inc., which sell sales and marketing software, will be early users of the innovation center, Amazon said. The goal is to help sell more cloud services, convincing clients to turn to AWS as they build ...
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Cisco launches new AI networking chips to compete with Broadcom, Marvell
21Jun By adminNo Comments
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Cisco launches new AI networking chips to compete with Broadcom, Marvell

[ad_1] Cisco Systems on Tuesday launched networking chips for AI supercomputers that would compete with offerings from Broadcom and Marvell Technology. Chips from its SiliconOne series are being tested by five of the six major cloud providers, Cisco said, without naming the firms. Key cloud players include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which together dominate the market for cloud computing, according to Bofa Global Research. The rising popularity of AI applications such as ChatGPT, which is powered by a network of specialized chips called graphics processing units (GPUs), has made the speed at which these individual chips communicate extremely important. Cisco is a major supplier of networking equipment including ethernet switches, which connect devices such a...
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AWS suffers major outage! Takes down Alexa, Instagram, FIFA, more along with it
14Jun By adminNo Comments
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AWS suffers major outage! Takes down Alexa, Instagram, FIFA, more along with it

[ad_1] Last night proved to be a rough time for many of the clients of Amazon Web Services (AWS) after it suffered a major outage. The cloud-based service provider going down affected a large part of the internet as servers of Instagram, FIFA, McDonald's app, TikTok, and others also were affected and had to deal with disruptions. Unsurprisingly, even Amazon's own services including Alexa and Amazon Music became a victim.As per the online outage monitor Downdetector, as many as 12,000 reports were recorded at the peak of the disruption. Reports suggested that users were not able to access the platform. Similarly, outages affected many of its clients as well as these services were also facing difficulties in functioning. This is one of the biggest outages faced by the platform ever since ...
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Amazon’s AWS to invest $35 billion in Virginia
21Jan By adminNo Comments
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Amazon’s AWS to invest $35 billion in Virginia

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc's cloud services division plans to invest another $35 billion by 2040 to expand data centers in Virginia. Amazon.com Inc's cloud services division said Friday it plans to invest another $35 billion by 2040 to expand data centers in Virginia. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the new investment will create 1,000 jobs. Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin said AWS will establish multiple data center campuses across Virginia. In 2021, AWS said from 2011 to 2020 it had invested $35 billion in data centers located in northern Virginia and had 3,500 full time employees at its data centers in the state. Pending approval by state lawmakers, Virginia is developing a new "Mega Data Center Incentive Program," which would allow the...
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Amazon Freezes Hiring Levels in Profitable Advertising Business
2Nov By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Freezes Hiring Levels in Profitable Advertising Business

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. is freezing staffing levels in its profitable advertising business. Amazon.com Inc. is freezing staffing levels in its profitable advertising business, according to a person familiar with the matter, showing that the the world's largest e-commerce company is taking more drastic measures to align expenses with slowing sales. The headcount freeze was announced internally Tuesday, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private. Amazon will continue to fill vacancies in its advertising business, but won't create any new positions, the person said. “Amazon continues to have a significant number of open roles available across the company,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “We have many different businesses at various stages of ev...
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Amazon Shares Plunge on Forecast for Sluggish Holiday Sales
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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Amazon Shares Plunge on Forecast for Sluggish Holiday Sales

[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc., shocking Wall Street, projected the slowest holiday-quarter growth in the company’s history. The shares plunged about 14% in premarket trading. Amazon.com Inc., shocking Wall Street, projected the slowest holiday-quarter growth in the company's history. The shares plunged about 14% in premarket trading.The Seattle-based company, which reaped record profits during the pandemic, said sales during the current period will rise just 2% to 8% as shoppers reduce their spending in the face of economic uncertainty. Either figure would be the slowest increase ever for Amazon's “Peak” season, which usually finds warehouse employees rushing to get orders out on time. And the e-commerce giant's other businesses aren't riding to the rescue. Amazon Web Services, the cloud-com...
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