Jess Weatherbed

Spotify’s latest AI feature builds playlists based on text descriptions

/ ‘Make me feel like a vampire hunter from Blade’By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing,…

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AI George Carlin case settled as performers demand better protection

/ ‘This assault on human creativity must be stopped.’By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and…

1 month ago

Alaska is gonna try and use a robot to scare wildlife from around an airport

/ The Aurora Boston Dynamics robot is being trialed to prevent harmful encounters between planes and wildlife, like migratory birds.By…

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Twitch’s Hype Train record smashed again by Pirate Software

/ It took Streamer Jason Thor Hall, aka Pirate Software, roughly three hours to break the previous world record he…

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Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans ‘parts pairing’

/ Oregon’s SB 1596 is the first law to ban device manufacturers from using parts pairing to dictate what replacement…

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Adobe’s new GenStudio platform is an AI factory for advertisers

/ The new app was announced at Adobe’s Summit event, alongside Firefly updates and a chatbot for its Experience enterprise…

2 months ago

Nvidia’s AI chip dominance is being targeted by Google, Intel, and Arm

/ The UXL Foundation project wants to eliminate the proprietary software barriers keeping developers locked into using Nvidia’s AI tech.By…

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Nvidia is using AI to turn game characters into chatbots

/ Tech demos at GDC show how generative AI is being used to voice, animate, and write narratives for video…

2 months ago

Adobe Substance 3D’s AI features can turn text into backgrounds and textures

/ Two new beta tools for Adobe Substance can generate object textures and staging environments using text descriptions.By Jess Weatherbed,…

2 months ago

Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping

/ Midjourney blamed a near 24-hour service outage on ‘botnet-like activity’ from two accounts linked to the Stable Diffusion creator.By…

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