You might be as surprised as I was to learn that Assassin's Creed Mirage is one of the few games to use AI neural texture compression—the only one, I think

You don't get something for nothing in the world of graphics, though, and when it comes to neural texture compression, all ...
Music Business Worldwide

Sony Group’s blueprint for AI music detection tech is promising. Here’s what it’s working on…

Last week, Nikkei Asia reported that researchers at Sony Group were working on technology to identify copyrighted music ...
Science News

AI models spot deepfake images, but people catch fake videos

AI systems are far better than people at spotting deepfake images, but when it comes to deepfake videos, humans may still have the edge. That’s the surprising twist from a new study that pits people ...
blockchain

Character.ai Unveils Efficient Techniques for Large-Scale Pretraining

Character.ai reveals innovative methods for optimizing large-scale pretraining, focusing on techniques like Squinch, dynamic clamping, and Gumbel Softmax, to enhance efficiency in AI model training.
Reuters

What is so special about TikTok's algorithm?

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...
TechCrunch

Instagram’s new ‘Your Algorithm’ tool gives you more control over the Reels you see

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...
The Washington Post

Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...
GitHub

32-bit integer compression is lousy

I'm working on a scientific computing project (RCS simulation) and have been using zstd to compress large intermediate files containing lists of 3D model facet indices. I ran into a very interesting ...
The Conversation

TikTok’s new owner puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.
ExtremeTech

Researchers Find Hackers Can Hide AI Prompt Attacks in Compressed Images

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