Move over, Black Mirror; the BBC is showing AI can be a force for good in media

aol.com When asked to imagine how major broadcasters might use generative AI in coming months, most people conjure up dystopian visions, from deepfakes of politicians to Minority…

The BBC is moving fast and showing that humans must always come first

fortune.com When asked to imagine how major broadcasters might use generative AI in coming months, most people conjure up dystopian visions, from deepfakes of politicians to Minority…

Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ Wins 2024 Webby Award

variety.com The winners of the 2024 Webby Awards, recognizing the best of the internet, have been announced. Among the honorees: Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” — the awards-season…

Microsoft's New AI Vasa App Makes Photos Talk and Sing

entrepreneur.com The VASA-1 AI model was not trained on the Mona Lisa but could animate it anyway. Microsoft published a research paper this week highlighting a new AI model called VASA-1…

Boston-bound flight involved in near-miss on runway at Reagan National

wcvb.com THANKS FOR JOINING US, EVERYBODY. I’M MARIA STEFANOS AND I’M ED HARDING. AND TONIGHT WE HAVE MADE THIS ANIMATION FOR YOU TO SHOW YOU EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. TWO PLANES NEARLY…

Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview

tomsguide.com A new AI research paper from Microsoft promises a future where you can upload a photo, a sample of your voice and create a live, animated talking head of your own face.…

Adobe Premiere Pro Gets AI Video Tools, Might Add OpenAI’s Sora

tech.co The AI-ification of tech is continuing strong, with Adobe adding a range of AI tools to its popular video-editing platform, Premiere Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro will definitely…

What Rent the Runway’s 360% stock surge reveals about the future of AI in fashion

aol.com Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Women are criticizing Nike's Olympic track and field uniforms, more than 40% of Florida voters say they'll vote to reverse the state's…

Adobe’s working on generative video, too

techcrunch.com Adobe says it’s building an AI model to generate video. But it’s not revealing when this model will launch, exactly — or much about it besides the fact that it exists.…

From rags to riches, Rent the Runway goes from penny stock to quadrupling share prices in days after doubling down on AI

aol.com After several rocky quarters of navigating pandemic-era fallout, fashion e-commerce platform Rent the Runway is flying high, thanks to its restructuring efforts—and its…

5 Investors Betting Big on Rent the Runway (RENT) Stock

investorplace.com Bain Capital Venture Investors is the top institutional investor in RENT Sometimes struggling stocks can quickly turn around, demonstrating astronomical gains. This week,…

Rent the Runway stock jumps on optimistic 2024 outlook

finance.yahoo.com shares are soaring during Thursday's trading session after the company shared an upbeat outlook for the year ahead. Rent the Runway stated that 2023 was a year of…

Rent the Runway Stock Is Up More Than 100% Today

barrons.com Rent the Runway, the online clothes rental company, went public in 2021 with a market capitalization of over $1 billion. Now, its market cap hovers around $63 million after…

Is Post-Strike Hollywood Really Ready for an AI Film Festival?

thewrap.com There’s a line stand-up comedians often turn to when a joke about controversial news hits a raw nerve: “What, too soon?” In Hollywood, that same question might apply to…