Getty Images, the stock photo agency with more than 135 million images on file, has premiered its own AI able to invent images in response to user requests.
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OPENAI MULLING SHARE SALE THAT WOULD TRIPLE ITS MARKET VALUE
OpenAI, the company that gave the world ChatGPT and started the current AI revolution, is asking investors’ opinions about issuing a new private round of stock, The Wall Street Journal reported. The new issue would likely value OpenAI at between $80 billion and $90 billion, people familiar told the WSJ.
IT SEES! IT SPEAKS! CHATGPT GETS NEW POWERS
An updated version of ChatGPT, the AI that launched the artificial intelligence revolution, will be able to “see, hear, and speak” with two new features, parent company OpenAI has announced.
SOFTBANK MAY PUT UP $1 BILLION TO CREATE SMARTPHONE BASED ON CHATGPT
Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is in talks with Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of Japanese venture fund Softbank, to back the development of “the iPhone of artificial intelligence,” according to three people familiar who told the Financial Times.
AI DESIGNS A WALKING ROBOT IN 26 SECONDS FROM SCRATCH
An artificial intelligence created at Northwestern University was given a simple prompt: design a robot that can walk on a flat surface.
STEEL COMPANY GOES ALL IN ON NUCLEAR FUSION
In the first agreement between a manufacturing company and fusion-energy research venture, Nucor—the largest steel producer in the U.S.—has formed a venture with Helion Energy, which is developing a nuclear fusion technology using water.
ELECTRODES GROWN INSIDE LIVING BRAINS
At Sweden’s Lund University, researchers have succeeded in growing tiny electrodes inside the brains of zebrafish and medicinal leeches. If scalable to humans, the devices could pave the road to new treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and other brain-based conditions.
CAN LIGHT THERAPY CURE ALZHEIMER’S?
At Russia’s Saratov State University, scientists were able to use light to clear away and prevent the build-up of amyloid proteins, the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, among brain cells.
THIS IS NOT FREEDOM, AMERICA: THE PROFIT INCENTIVES DRIVING THE AMERICAN POLICE STATE
Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington DC. It’s just more of the same grandstanding by tone-deaf politicians oblivious to the plight of the citizenry.
WASHINGTON ON THE KNIFE EDGE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has gone from hero to zero in the space of a few months. The mélange of Western military equipment, from tanks to missiles, in the hands of courageous but unprepared and poorly led Ukrainian conscripts has failed to improve Ukrainian battlefield performance.









