Published on: 2025-04-20 00:25:15
In a Black Mirror-esque turn, some cash-strapped actors who didn't fully understand the consequences are regretting selling their likenesses to be used in AI videos that they consider embarrassing, damaging, or harmful, AFP reported. Among them is a 29-year-old New York-based actor, Adam Coy, who licensed rights to his face and voice to a company called MCM for one year for $1,000 without thinking, "am I crossing a line by doing this?" His partner's mother later found videos where he appeared a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 10:01:32
Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Most AI providers try to enhance their products by training them with both public information and user data. However, the latter method puts a privacy-conscious company like Apple in a difficult position. How can it improve its Apple Intelligence technology without compromising the privacy of its users? It's a tough challenge, but the company believes it has found a solution. Synthetic data vs real data OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta train their products partly by ana
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 10:17:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: The idea of Apple analyzing data from users' devices to train its AI models isn't going to be welcomed by most people. Nevertheless, the company is taking this action as it looks to improve its Apple Intelligence services. However, Cupertino says its unique approach to this process will protect user privacy. Apple writes that its "differential privacy" approach works by first generati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 18:53:55
In the wake of criticism over the underwhelming performance of its AI products, especially in areas like notification summaries, Apple on Monday detailed how it is trying to improve its AI models by analyzing user data privately with the aid of synthetic data. Using an approach called “differential privacy,” the company said it would first generate synthetic data and then poll users’ devices (provided they’ve opted-in to share device analytics with Apple) with snippets of the generated syntheti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 18:00:01
An Adobe sign hangs along Main Street during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, 2025 in Park City, Utah. LONDON — Adobe has invested in Synthesia, a British artificial intelligence startup, in a bet that the technology will transform video production. Synthesia told CNBC that Adobe's venture capital arm injected an undisclosed amount of funds into the startup as part of a "strategic" partnership, without elaborating further on financial and commercial terms. The startup, which says i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 05:04:58
At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. And we believe in giving our users a great experience while protecting their privacy. For years, we’ve used techniques like differential privacy as part of our opt-in device analytics program. This lets us gain insights into how our products are used, so we can improve them, while protecting user privacy by preventing Apple from seeing individual-level data from those users. This same need to understand usage while protecting privacy is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 14:42:48
Last month, Apple delayed the rollout of its more personal and powerful Siri features. As it looks to right the ship for future Apple Intelligence updates, Bloomberg highlights a shift that Apple is making in how it trains its artificial intelligence models. The report highlights a blog post from Apple’s Machine Learning Research website, explaining how Apple generally uses synthetic data to train its AI models. There are limitations to this strategy, however, including the fact that it’s hard
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 06:57:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Forward-looking: The rising popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy has transformed obesity treatment and spurred competition among pharmaceutical companies to develop more effective alternatives. One such contender is Syntis Bio, a Boston-based biotech firm working on an oral medication designed to replicate the effects of gastric bypass surgery without the need for invasive p
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Table of Contents What Is the Best Motor Oil for Your Car in 2025 Regularly changing your vehicle's oil is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to keep it running for many years and tens of thousands of miles. The best motor oil is the one that fits your budget, vehicle and driving style. There are lots of brands and types of oil to choose from, including conventional, synthetic or a blend of both, as well as different weights and additives that are better for certain situations and vehicles.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 02:00:04
It's 2025, so it should be no surprise that another organization has sold its soul (entered into a licensing deal with an AI company) for an undisclosed sum. A new partnership allows UK-based Synthesia to access Shutterstock's content library for training its latest AI model, EXPRESS-2. This deal isn't the first of its kind for Shutterstock, which previously teamed up with OpenAI to sell stock images made using AI generator DALL-E 2. Synthesia creates avatars for corporate videos about topics s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 22:33:16
“Our results demonstrate that the above-ground and below-ground parts of a tree follow separate calendars, allowing for underground growth to be prioritized in winter and aerial growth at the beginning of spring,” says CREAF researcher Paolo Zuccarini, a co-author of the study. This divergence could offer a strategic advantage: in winter, while the rest of the tree is dormant, its roots store reserves of carbohydrates and nitrogen-rich substances, such as proteins and amino acids. Thus, when the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 07:00:03
Chipmaker Nvidia is leaning further into producing tools for generative AI developers with the acquisition of synthetic data firm Gretel for more than $320 million, according to a report from Wired on Wednesday. The move comes as generative AI firms struggle to find enough data to train and improve their models, increasing the need to generate data. According to the report, Gretel's employees will be folded into Nvidia. Gretel, which produces synthetic or simulated data for AI model training,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 17:27:27
Nvidia has acquired synthetic data firm Gretel for nine figures, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal. The acquisition price exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, the sources say, though the exact terms of the purchase remain unknown. Gretel and its team of approximately 80 employees will be folded into Nvidia, where its technology will be deployed as part of the chip giant’s growing suite of cloud-based, generative AI services for developers. The acquisi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:45:04
Getty Images/Yaroslav Kushta With the rise of generative AI, synthetic images and text have become common knowledge -- but are you familiar with synthetic data? As the name implies, the term refers to data that is artificially generated and used to replace real data. It is used to create solutions for healthcare, finance, the automotive industry, and, most importantly, artificial intelligence. Synthetic data is such an integral part of the digital revolution that South by Southwest (SXSW) held
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 12:00:00
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Most of life’s engines run on sunlight. Photons filter down through the atmosphere and are eagerly absorbed by light-powered organisms such as plants and algae. Through photosynthesis, the particles of light power a cellular reaction that manufactures chemical energy (in the form of sugars), which is then passed around the food web in a complex dance of herbivores, predators, scavengers, decomposers, and more. On a bright, sunny d
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: When the orchid Oreorchis patens happens to grow close to rotten wood, it shifts its fungal symbionts to those that decompose the wood and significantly increases the amount of nutrients it takes from them—without ceasing to employ photosynthesis. As a result, the plants are bigger and produce more flowers. Credit: A
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