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Abstract: The application of AI-generated models demands substantial amounts of data, which not only increases training time and memory consumption but also poses challenges to computation and ...

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Warner Bros. Discovery recently fixed a silly mistake and put the “HBO” back in Max. Unfortunately a return to the site’s old name hasn’t stopped it’s owner from pulling the same old crap. Last year ...

Stephen Acabado receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Science Foundation. But behind the spirit’s flash of marketing and growing popularity lies a rarely asked question: ...

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said ...

Quantum computing just got a significant boost thanks to researchers at the University of Osaka, who developed a much more efficient way to create "magic states" a key component for fault-tolerant ...

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A.I. has yet to upend Hollywood. But it is starting to make big inroads in animation. The founders of Toonstar, a small animation studio in downtown Los Angeles, have incorporated A.I. at various ...

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