Generative Ai

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  Crypto Scams Likely Set New Record in 2024, Helped by AI: Chainalysis

  The use of generative AI likely lifted revenues from crypto scams to a record high in 2024, Chainalysis has said in its recent report. The company pointed to marketplaces that support pig butchering operations and the use of GenAI as factors making it easier and cheaper for scammers to expand operations.

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  Adobe Releases AI-Powered Generate Video in Public Beta, Redesigns Firefly Web App

  Adobe released its Generate Video tool in public beta on Wednesday, which is now available to all users. The artificial intelligence (AI) video generation tool is powered by the company’s Firefly Video Model, and was first teased in September 2024. The San Jose-based tech giant also redesigned the Firefly web app, and the new layout highlights al...

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  Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 Chipset With Enhancements for Gaming, Generative AI Unveiled

  Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 chipset was unveiled by Qualcomm on Wednesday, with significant upgrades compared to the previous generation. The company’s newest mobile processor is aimed at offering enhanced capabilities and optimised performance for affordable smartphones. The mobile platform also becomes the first in the series to get support for generati...

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  Amazon Set to Release Long-Delayed Alexa Generative AI Revamp

  Amazon is gearing up to launch its Alexa generative AI voice service. The company on Wednesday sent out press invites to an event to be held on February 26 in New York featuring the head of its devices and services team, Panos Panay. A spokesperson said the event is Alexa-focused, while declining to elaborate. 

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  Nicolas Cage Warns Against Actors Using AI: "Can't Let Robots Dream For Us"

  He emphasised that AI systems cannot genuinely capture the complexities and nuances of the human experience, stressing that "robots cannot reflect the human condition."

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  Meta’s Reality Labs Unit Posts $5 Billion in Losses in Q4 2024

  Reality Labs logged a loss of $4.97 billion (roughly Rs. 43,040 crore) in Q4, 2024. In an attempt to explain losses for Reality Labs, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “generative AI, Reality Labs generally are more technical organisations which means higher cost and space being relative for their business functions.”

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  India to Develop Native Generative AI Models in Six to Eight Months, Says Ashwini Vaishnaw

  India will build native generative artificial intelligence (AI) models within six to eight months, the Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology (IT) Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Thursday. The initiative was announced at the Utkarsh Odisha Conclave, where the minister also revealed that the DeepSeek-R1 AI model has been implemented ...

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  Sam Altman's Old Video Is Viral Amid Success Of China's Cheap AI Model

  There's a new entrant in the Artificial Intelligence chatbot market from China. It is competing with giants like OpenAI, Gemini, ClaudeAI, etc. disrupting the American hegemony in AI-based generative chatbot models.

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  Microsoft Unveils Open-Source MatterGen AI Model That Can Generate Inorganic Material Designs

  Microsoft researchers unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model last week that can design new inorganic materials with desired properties. Dubbed MatterGen, the open-source large language model (LLM) is currently available in the public domain. The researchers have also published a paper highlighting that the technology can be used to accel...

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  US President Donald Trump Revokes Executive Order on Addressing AI Risks

  US President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that aiming to reduce the risks that AI poses to customers. The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.

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  Google Cloud Unveils Generative AI Search and Agentic Tools for Retailers

  Google announced new artificial intelligence (AI) search and agentic tools for retail-focused enterprises on Sunday. These announcements were made at the ongoing National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2025 event. The Mountain View-based tech giant introduced its Agentspace platform that enables enterprises to build personalised AI agents for a wide r...

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  Nvidia Cosmos AI Platform to Train and Develop Autonomous Vehicles and Robots Launched at CES 2025

  Nvidia launched Cosmos, a new artificial intelligence platform that contains multiple generative world foundation models (WFMs), on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025. The platform does not only contain these AI models but also include advanced tokenisers, accelerated video processing pipeline, and guardrails that enable the platfor...

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  ChatGPT Was Used To Plan Tesla Cybertruck Attack Outside Trump Hotel: US Cops

  Generative AI, including ChatGPT, was used to organise the New Year's Day attack outside the Trump International Hotel in the United States's Las Vegas, where a highly decorated soldier exploded a Tesla Cybertruck.

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  Samsung Wins Patent for AI-Powered Wallpaper Feature Based on Time of Day, Weather

  Samsung might be developing a new feature for its devices which can tweak the wallpaper based on the current weather information, according to a patent recently granted to the company. The purported feature is said to leverage generative artificial intelligence (AI) to modify the existing wallpaper and add an overlay over the user interface (UI), i...

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  Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More

  If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and pl...