YouTube announces AI features from Google DeepMind for Shorts creators

YouTube announces AI features from Google DeepMind for Shorts creators

Veo in Dream Screen. YouTube YouTube on Wednesday announced artificial intelligence features for creators on its Shorts platform that tap into Google‘s DeepMind video-generation model. The features, known as Veo, will allow creators to add AI-generated backgrounds to their videos as well as use written prompts to generate stand-alone, six-second video clips. YouTube CEO Neal … Read more

How the massive power draw of generative AI is overtaxing our grid

How the massive power draw of generative AI is overtaxing our grid

Thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, new data centers are springing up as quickly as companies can build them. This has translated into huge demand for power to run and cool the servers inside. Now concerns are mounting about whether the U.S. can generate enough electricity for the widespread adoption of AI, and whether our … Read more

Cohere CEO and ex-Google researcher Aidan Gomez on how AI makes money

Cohere CEO and ex-Google researcher Aidan Gomez on how AI makes money

Aidan Gomez was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he helped co-author the “Attention Is All You Need” paper that conceptualized the transformer and eventually kicked off the generative artificial intelligence boom. “There’s no one in the field who was around back then working who could have foreseen where we are in terms … Read more

CEO of world’s largest wealth fund says there’s a lot of froth

CEO of world’s largest wealth fund says there’s a lot of froth

The chief executive of Norway’s gigantic sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday said there is “clearly a lot of froth” in the tech sector, suggesting that whether there is too much of it could depend on this week’s tech earnings bonanza. U.S. tech behemoths including Tesla, Meta, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet are all scheduled to … Read more

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts $110 billion in Q1 profit

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts 0 billion in Q1 profit

Norway’s giant sovereign wealth fund on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of 1.21 trillion kroner ($109.9 billion), supported by robust returns on its investments in technology stocks. The so-called Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, said it had a value of 17.7 trillion kroner at the end of March. It described the … Read more