The AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching an AI agent marketplace, allowing creators to “hire” AI assistants to help them with specific tasks, like resizing and remixing social content, or editing product photos on Shopify. With over 130 million worldwide users that skew Gen Z, Picsart is like a more…
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 uses generative AI to boost photorealism in video games, with ambitions beyond gaming
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used the company’s keynote at Nvidia GTC on Monday to introduce DLSS 5, a new version of the chipmaker’s AI graphics tech designed to make video games more realistic while using less compute power. The new DLSS 5 system combines traditional 3D graphics data with generative…
Elon Musk’s xAI faces child porn lawsuit from minors Grok allegedly undressed
Elon Musk’s company xAI should be held accountable for allowing its AI models to produce abusive sexual images of identifiable minors, three anonymous plaintiffs argued in a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court. The three plaintiffs want to bring a class action suit representing anyone who had real images…
Samsung bets this island startup can tame the grid with software and batteries
The electrical grid has changed more in the last decade than in the preceding five. Solar, wind, and batteries have pushed power generation away from monolithic producers. But fundamentally, the grid still suffers from the same challenges. “The problem on the grid is a peak problem. Most of the time…
SEC eyes shift to twice-yearly earnings reports
The SEC is working on a proposal to allow public companies to release earnings reports twice a year instead of quarterly, per the WSJ. Chatter about making the 50-plus-year-old quarterly requirement optional has picked up steam in the past year, as companies lament the cost and burden of preparing for…
What happened to plasma TVs? Can you still buy one?
It’s not uncommon for people to gloss over evolutionary steps in technology, and I have to admit, even I’m guilty of that sometimes. Lately I’ve been touching on the development of TVs over the years, including LCD, OLED, and mini-LED panels, but I almost forgot about the existence of a…
Nvidia’s version of OpenClaw could solve its biggest problem: Security
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks every company should have an OpenClaw strategy. And Nvidia is here to provide it. Nvidia has developed NemoClaw, an enterprise-grade platform built off the viral, local AI autonomous agent, Huang announced during his GTC keynote on Monday. The open source platform is essentially OpenClaw with…
Jensen Huang just put Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers — mostly of the technical variety — during his keynote Monday to kick off the company’s annual GTC Conference in San Jose, California. But there was one financial figure that investors surely took notice of: his projection that there will…
Pan’s Labyrinth is now completely impossible to stream
I’m a huge fan of director Guillermo del Toro and while I was glad to see his most recent film for Netflix, Frankenstein, get recognized with four Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, I have a very special spot in my heart for his 2006 Spanish-language film Pan’s Labyrinth.…
Warren presses Pentagon over decision to grant xAI access to classified networks
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday expressing concern over the Pentagon’s decision to give Elon Musk’s company xAI access to classified networks. “Grok, the controversial AI model developed by xAI, has provided disturbing outputs for users, including giving users ‘advice on how…