VLGE is making it easier to world build and shop on Roblox
50 fashion brands are launching their shoppable worlds for VLGE’s World Fashion Week, founder Evelyn Mora says.
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SK Telecom’s AI unit offers staff voluntary retirement program just weeks after launch
All staff employed by SK Telecom’s new AI division are being offered a voluntary retirement program as part of a broader effort to bring together its various AI-related divisions, the…
The Blurred Truths of Sora
Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.
From slop to Sotheby’s? AI art enters a new phase
In this era of AI slop, the idea that generative AI tools like Midjourney and Runway could be used to make art can seem absurd: What possible artistic value is…
Meta previews new parental controls for its AI experiences
Meta on Friday previewed its upcoming parental control features for teens’ conversations with AI characters on its platforms. The features, which will be rolled out next year, include the ability…
ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World
ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.
Baidu’s PaddlePaddle Team Releases PaddleOCR-VL (0.9B): a NaViT-style + ERNIE-4.5-0.3B VLM Targeting End-to-End Multilingual Document Parsing
How do you convert complex, multilingual documents—dense layouts, small scripts, formulas, charts, and handwriting—into faithful structured Markdown/JSON with state-of-the-art accuracy while keeping inference latency and memory low enough for real…
Google AI Releases C2S-Scale 27B Model that Translate Complex Single-Cell Gene Expression Data into ‘cell sentences’ that LLMs can Understand
A team of researchers from Google Research, Google DeepMind, and Yale released C2S-Scale 27B, a 27-billion-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on Gemma-2. The model formalizes single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq)…
Forget Apps vs. Agents — The Future Is AI-Powered Apps with Agents Inside
Open your favorite SaaS app. Maybe it’s a CRM, a project tracker, or a financial dashboard. Now imagine instead of clicking through menus or exporting reports, you simply ask: “Why…
A Coding Guide to Build an AI-Powered Cryptographic Agent System with Hybrid Encryption, Digital Signatures, and Adaptive Security Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build an AI-powered cryptographic agent system that combines the strength of classical encryption with adaptive intelligence. We design agents capable of performing hybrid encryption with RSA…