Microsoft introduced an AI-powered video generator to its Bing search engine. Bing Video Creator is powered by OpenAI's Sora, which creates short clips based on text prompts. The free feature is rolling out to the Bing mobile app starting today and is slated to arrive later on desktop and to Copilot Search.<br /> Microsoft has invested multiple billions of dollars into OpenAI in support [...]
Companies across industries are working to make their internal processes more efficient. As a result, we’ve seen the technology become the scapegoat for a consistent string of layoffs. Specifically in the tech sector, companies are blaming massive rounds of layoffs on AI. Market trends around flatter organizations and leaner operations to fund investments are being represented as efficiency gain [...]
Kalshi, the prediction markets exchange, has built a forward curve that tracks the future price of computing power, joining a growing list of exchanges and index operators trying to turn GPU rental costs into a standardised financial instrument. The tool uses weekly and monthly event contracts related to compute prices, extending up to a year […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Black Friday is as good a time as any to upgrade your home audio setup. You can get the Sonos Era 300, the company's only standalone speaker with spatial audio, for $379. That's $100 off what Engadget's Nathan Ingraham called "a great speaker, whether or not it is playing songs in Dolby Atmos." <br /> That Dolby reference points to the Era 300's core novelty. It [...]
Ten years ago, Karina Portugal was at advertising festivals like Cannes Lions, discussing campaigns and branding. Today, she sits across the table from some of the largest banks in Brazil, Europe, and the United States to discuss a much harder problem to sell: how do you know whether you can trust who, or what, is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]