Monthly Archives: February 2024

200-year-old Scotch whiskey maker enters the AI age with generated labels

Scottish whiskey maker Glenlivet has produced part of the brand’s most recent advertising campaign through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The biggest names in the world are embracing AI and the technologies that can generate image and video content … Continue reading

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Google to fix AI picture bot after ‘woke’ criticism

Users fault Gemini for generating diverse images in inappropriate historical contexts.

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Locker organizes your shopping links into virtual wish lists and collages

After years of copying and pasting shopping links into spreadsheets and taking screenshots of products to share with her friends and family, Kristine Locker finally decided to launch a social shopping platform (which she named after herself) that could take … Continue reading

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Spotify follows Meta, YouTube and others by offering AUX, a service to connect brands and creators

Facebook, Instagram, Snap, YouTube, and other social networking companies offer programs to connect creators with brands, and now Spotify is doing the same. The company announced the launch of AUX, its new in-house “music advisory agency” for brands. While not … Continue reading

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Women in AI: Krystal Kauffman, research fellow at the Distributed AI Research Institute

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the … Continue reading

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An AT&T Outage Is Wreaking Havoc on US Cellular Networks

The AT&T network outage shows no signs of improvement, and the company has given no details about the cause.

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17 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

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Instagram’s Uneasy Rise as a News Site

In this year’s presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the platform tries de-emphasizing “political content.”

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Leaked Files Show the Secret World of China’s Hackers for Hire

China has increasingly turned to private companies in campaigns to hack foreign governments and control its domestic population.

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Tenable: Cyber Security Pros Should Worry About State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks

The outing of China-backed threat actor Volt Typhoon and Microsoft’s compromise by Russia-backed Midnight Blizzard provide important cyber security strategy lessons for Australia, says Tenable.

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