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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has founded a new AI startup called Hooglee, focusing on AI-powered video generation and social networking. According to Forbes reporter Sarah Emerson, the company aims to “democratize video creation with AI” and is currently funded by Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire. Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of Google’s Waymo, leads the project alongside …
We are in the third year of the generative AI boom. While some are predicting a stall for the industry as a whole, I personally expect 2025 to be a year of interesting, meaningful and useful advances. Generative AI is here to stay. The advances to come may not always look as exciting as those …
Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype and prominent European tech investor, believes European startups can thrive in AI despite the significant funding gap with US competitors. In an interview with the Financial Times, as reported by Tim Bradshaw, Zennström explained that European companies can succeed by developing applications on top of established AI platforms from companies …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has announced that his company’s AI chips are advancing at a rate surpassing Moore’s Law, the long-standing principle of computing progress. According to TechCrunch’s recent report, Huang states their latest data center superchip performs 30 times faster for AI tasks than previous generations. The CEO attributes this acceleration to Nvidia’s comprehensive …
Social media platforms are struggling with a new trend where users modify graphic violence and murder footage using AI to make it appear like scenes from Minions animated movies. According to Emanuel Maiberg from 404 Media, people are using Runway’s AI video generator to transform disturbing content, including real suicide footage and terrorist attacks, into …
A new analysis outlines five key areas that will shape enterprise artificial intelligence adoption in 2025. According to Matt Marshall, writing for VentureBeat, companies must focus on AI agents, evaluations, cost management, personalization, and inference optimization to remain competitive. The report highlights how AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are becoming essential business …
In an in-depth interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reflected on the company’s dramatic transformation since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022 and outlined his vision for artificial intelligence development. The discussion covered key events including his brief dismissal in November 2023, the company’s rapid scaling, and preparations for AI advancement under the upcoming …
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shared his reflections on the company’s progress and future direction in a personal blog post. The text reveals OpenAI’s transformation from a quiet research lab to a leading AI company, particularly after the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Altman describes how ChatGPT’s release triggered unprecedented growth in the company, …
Software engineer and Google executive Addy Osmani has published a comprehensive analysis of how AI is changing software development, while highlighting important limitations of current AI coding tools. The findings reveal that AI assistants can help developers achieve about 70% of coding tasks quickly but struggle with the remaining complex aspects of software engineering. The …
Investment in AI-powered medical note-taking applications doubled to $800 million in 2024, marking a significant shift in healthcare technology adoption. According to a report by Madhumita Murgia in the Financial Times, this surge reflects growing competition between Big Tech companies and startups in the $26 billion AI healthcare market. Microsoft’s Nuance DAX Copilot and solutions …