Despite gen AI hype, venture capitalists are still largely on the sidelines PitchBook’s first-quarter report shows that venture activity got off to a slow start this year as investors remain cautious on early stage tech.

OnePlus AI Is Coming: Opening a New Era of AI-Driven, User-Centric Innovation submitted by /u/FragmentedChicken

Power Up Your Marketing With AI Personas | The MarTech Show, Ep. 5 Ever put together a seemingly brilliant marketing campaign only to see it totally missed the mark in performance? Do you feel like you don’t yet have a handle on who your target audience is and what their pain points actually are? What if there was a way to build powerful marketing personas that leveraged AI

Meta’s AI image generator can’t imagine an Asian man with a white woman Image: The Verge / Meta AIHave you ever seen an Asian person with a white person, whether that’s a mixed-race couple or two friends of different races? Seems pretty common to me — I have lots of white friends! To Meta’s AI-powered image generator, apparently this is impossible to imagine. I tried dozens of times to create an image using prompts …

How To Use Google Sheets For Web Scraping With AI via @sejournal, @andreaatzori Explore the advanced uses of Google Sheets for data scraping, integrating AI tools like ChatGPT for efficiency. The post How To Use Google Sheets For Web Scraping With AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

FDA authorizes Prenosis software as first AI tool that can diagnose sepsis Prenosis announced its AI-powered diagnostic tool for sepsis has been approved by the FDA

AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeStable Audio 2.0, an audio generation model for Stability AI, now lets users upload their own audio samples that they can then transform using prompts and create AI-generated songs. But the songs will not win any Grammys just yet. The first version of Stable Audio was released in September 2023 and only of…

Welcome to the AI gadget era Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeHumane, Rabbit, Brilliant, Meta, and countless other companies are just about to launch AI-first gadgets. AI hardware may not be as big as the smartphone, but it’s going to be big. Continue reading…

AI George Carlin case settled as performers demand better protection The Dudesy podcast agreed to take the allegedly ai-generated comedy special offline as part of the settlement. | Photo by Mark Junge/Getty ImagesGeorge Carlin’s estate has reached a settlement with the media company that purportedly used generative artificial intelligence to imitate the late comedian. The decision arrives as a group representing…

Crypto AI Projects Would Need to Buy Chips Worth Their Entire Market Cap to Meet Ambitions Supporting the creator economy with AI-generated video will take more GPUs than all major tech companies operate.

AI site to generate actual relevant hashtags? Does anyone know a site that generates hashtags that are genuinely used and specific. Specificity is what I am after mostly. So many of the apps or sites just give very VERY broad hashtags. submitted by /u/noconnostalgia

George Carlin’s Estate Settles Lawsuit Against Podcasters Over AI Special submitted by /u/CraftRemarkable7197

NYC’s AI gun detectors hardly work Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty ImagesWhen New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the city would be testing out AI gun detectors on at subway stations last week, he touted the technology as “clearly impressive.” But critics, including the Legal Aid Society, were immediately skeptical of the pilot — and as it turns out, they were …

US and UK will work together to test AI models for safety threats Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty ImagesThe United States and United Kingdom agreed to work together to monitor advanced AI models for safety risks. The two countries will collaborate on research and do at least one joint safety test. Both countries say safety is a top concern when it comes to using AI models. US President Joe Biden…

Now there’s an AI gas station with robot fry cooks Screenshot: Wes Davis / The VergeThere’s a little-known hack in rural America: you can get the best fried food at the gas station (or in the case of a place I went to on my last road trip, shockingly good tikka masala). Now, one convenience store chain wants to change that with a robotic fry cook that it’s bringing to a place once inhabited by a…

The SEC’s Shot Across the Bow on ‘AI Washing’

Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy Startup acquisitions have been replaced by hiring sprees and tight partnerships

AI Makes It A Lot Easier To Be A Generalist Now Why I think a recent finding on AI and productivity has been (partially) misinterpreted

How to Create An AI Lead Magnet A guide for email marketers

The Role of AI Videos in Retail Marketing | The MarTech Show, Ep. 1 Imagine you’re a retail brand, and you want to create a lot of videos about all of your various products to share to Instagram reels, or an agency who’s working with several retail brands and has a multiplier effect on video demand. Where do we start? And how do we scale up without losing quality?