The long-awaited addition of Housing in World of Warcraft is going to cost you. On top of your monthly subscription and the cost of the Midnight expansion itself, some Housing items will require a new in-game currency called “Hearthsteel” that players will have to pay for with real money. World of Warcraft already has hundreds…
Researchers at New York University have developed a new architecture for diffusion models that improves the semantic representation of the images they generate. “Diffusion Transformer with Representation Autoencoders” (RAE) challenges some of the accepted norms of building diffusion models. The NYU researcher's model is more efficient and accurate than standard diffusion models, takes advantage of…
With layoffs climbing to a 20-year October high and hedge fund icon Michael Burry shorting Nvidia and Palantir, the hype machine is sputtering. Technology stocks fell on November 7 amid fears of an AI bubble, a further-drawn-out federal government shutdown, and economic data that suggests consumer sentiment has dropped toward record-low levels.
Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care. In one case,…
The UAE led with US$616 million over 15 deals, driven by Property Finder’s US$525 million debt round.
For years — through its pandemic-fueled highs and its post-quarantine malaise — Peloton has held its earnings calls at a bright and bushy 8:30AM ET. Not yesterday. Instead, the company broke different news first thing in the morning: it issued yet another recall for 833,000 of its original Bike Plus units, before posting its Q1…
The developers of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating the performance of autonomous AI agents on real-world terminal-based tasks, have released version 2.0 alongside Harbor, a new framework for testing, improving and optimizing AI agents in containerized environments. The dual release aims to address long-standing pain points in testing and optimizing AI agents, particularly those…
Get ready for snickerdoodle-flavored Kisses, peppermint Kit Kats, Grinch chocolates, and more. Now that Halloween has come and gone, you might have wrongly assumed that candy season is over. Not if the Hershey Co. has anything to say about it. In fact, the sweets are just getting started.
Rivian has given its founder and CEO RJ Scaringe a new performance-based stock award that could ultimately be worth around $5 billion if all the underlying goals are met, according to a new filing. Scaringe’s salary is also being doubled to $2 million per year, and he was given a 10% stake in Rivian’s newest…
SK Telecom cited significant one-off costs from a data breach affecting nearly 27 million users, including about US$350 million in compensation.
