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Disney’s three-year licensing partnership with OpenAI includes just one of exclusivity, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC. The company signed the partnership with OpenAI last week that will bring its iconic characters to the AI firm’s Sora video generator. Once that exclusive year is up, Disney is free to sign similar deals with other AI companies. The deal gives OpenAI a high-profile content partner, allowing users to draw on more than 200 characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars to create content on Sora. For now, it’s the only AI platform that’s legally permitted to do so. For Disney,…
Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new model release. The semiconductor giant announced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of popular open source workload management system Slurm. Nvidia said the company will continue to operate the program, which is designed for high-performance computing and AI, as an open source, vendor-neutral software. Slurm was originally launched in 2002 and SchedMD was founded in 2010 by the lead Slurm developers Morris Jette and Danny Auble. Auble is the current CEO of SchedMD. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Nvidia declined…
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After a blockbuster Black Friday week, TikTok and its owner ByteDance are shaking up their global e-commerce product and data science teams, according to two company staffers and a December memo viewed by Business Insider.The move was designed to streamline collaboration in areas like artificial intelligence, as well as “improve operational efficiency,” per the memo.As part of the change, which was implemented in the first week of the month, global e-commerce product and design team leader Zhou Sheng is stepping aside. Zhou helped build the company’s e-commerce product and “greatly facilitated” its global development, ByteDance e-commerce head Bob Kang wrote…
After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of website content when accessed by machines, like AI webcrawlers. Creative Commons (CC) is best known for spearheading the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright. In July, the organization announced a plan to provide a legal and technical framework for dataset sharing between companies that control the data and the AI providers that want to train on it. Now, the nonprofit is tentatively backing pay-to-crawl…
After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns from many venture firms, limited partners, such as endowments, pension plans, and sovereign wealth funds, began to funnel a greater share of their capital into a select group of established firms with proven track records. The latest huge capital haul has come to Lightspeed Venture Partners. The 25-year-old venture firm announced Monday that it raised a total of $9 billion in fresh funds, the largest fundraise in firm’s history. At a time when very few companies have managed to IPO, Lightspeed was an early investor…
AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster announced Sunday that its word of the year for 2025 is “slop.” The dictionary defines the term as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” “Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch. Slop oozes into everything,” the dictionary writes, adding that, in an age of AI anxiety, it…
The best smart speakers don’t just sound great — they also make everyday life easier. With a built-in voice assistant, you can control your music, ask questions, and manage other smart devices around your home, all hands-free. You’ll usually be choosing between Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri, though some speakers now support more than one platform. If you’re just starting to build a smart home, you’ve got plenty of flexibility. But if you’re already using one of these ecosystems, it’s best to pick a speaker that works with the assistant you’re already invested in.I’ve been reviewing audio gear…
Dec 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to four major retailers for continuing to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants, even after the products were recalled, the health regulator’s website showed on Monday.Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons kept the recalled ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula on store shelves even after being notified of the recall in November, the FDA said in the letters dated December 12.The bacterial illness, called infant botulism, occurs when babies ingest spores of the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, which can grow in their…
BURNSVILLE, N.C. – In this remote corner of western North Carolina, some of the people whom paramedics Evan Carroll and Nicole McKinney serve don’t have cellphone service, and bridges that once took the two to isolated homes deep in the mountains were washed away by Hurricane Helene. And instead of simply responding to emergencies, Carroll and McKinney make old-fashioned medical house calls for nonurgent care. They help elderly patients monitor their high blood pressure and other chronic conditions. They advise people on what they should be eating, even dropping off meals and produce. They set up transportation and help make…