Helping machines understand visual content with AI

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Carbon Neutral Regulation in AI Training

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Data should drive every decision a modern business makes. But most businesses have a massive blind spot: They don’t know what’s happening in their visual data. Coactive is working to change that. The company, founded by Cody Coleman ’13, MEng ’15 and William Gaviria Rojas ’13, has created an artificial intelligence-powered platform that can make sense […]

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If you’re a ChatGPT power user, you may have recently encountered the dreaded “Memory is full” screen. This message appears when you hit the limit of ChatGPT’s saved memories, and it can be a significant hurdle during long-term projects. Memory is supposed to be a key feature for complex, ongoing tasks – you want your […]

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By delivering tools online via subscription model, Software as a Service (SaaS) changed the way enterprises worked. Still, the capabilities were limiting for some, so vertical SaaS added industry-specific functionality. Then came artificial intelligence (AI) and advancements such as robotic process automation (RPA), which would use virtual bots to replicate the actions of people and […]

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AI is revolutionizing the way nearly every industry operates. It’s making us more efficient, more productive, and – when implemented correctly – better at our jobs overall. But as our reliance on this novel technology increases rapidly, we have to remind ourselves of one simple fact: AI is not infallible. Its outputs should not be […]

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New research suggests that watermarking tools meant to block AI image edits may backfire. Instead of stopping models like Stable Diffusion from making changes, some protections actually help the AI follow editing prompts more closely, making unwanted manipulations even easier. There is a notable and robust strand in computer vision literature dedicated to protecting […]

From a very young age, I knew the gender I was assigned at birth didn’t make a lot of sense to what I felt internally. Unfortunately our society does not do a good job of embracing complexities that exist within one person. This binary of “man” and “woman” has always been something that I was […]

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Tech sector carbon emissions continued their rise in recent years, fueled by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructure, according to a report from groups within the sector, which profiles some of the actions being taken by leading companies to address this. Greening Digital Companies 2025, produced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) […]

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Glasgow-headquartered climate tech company, IES, has unveiled a bespoke Dynamic Simulation Modelling (DSM) tool as part of its Virtual Environment (VE) – an advanced performance modelling technology – to help building professionals meet Gibraltar’s Part F energy regulations for new buildings and extensions. Developed in partnership with HM Government of Gibraltar and funded through the […]

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Meta’s reported $10 billion investment in Scale AI represents far more than a simple funding round—it signals a fundamental strategic evolution in how tech giants view the AI arms race. This potential deal, which could exceed $10 billion and would be Meta’s largest external AI investment, reveals Mark Zuckerberg’s company doubling down on a critical […]

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Businesses today depend heavily on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to run important tasks like handling customer questions, spotting financial risks, managing supply chains, and supporting medical decisions. While AI helps improve speed and accuracy, it also brings risks that old insurance policies do not cover. AI can make wrong choices, give false information, or fail because […]
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Machine learning workflows typically involve plenty of numerical computations in the form of mathematical and algebraic operations upon data stored as large vectors, matrices, or even tensors — matrix counterparts with three or more dimensions.

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It sounds right. It looks right. It’s wrong. That’s your AI on hallucination. The issue isn’t just that today’s generative AI models hallucinate. It’s that we feel if we build enough guardrails, fine-tune it, RAG it, and tame it somehow, then we will be able to adopt it at Enterprise scale. Study Domain Hallucination Rate […]

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AI is reshaping the workforce at a breakneck speed, yet training efforts aren’t meeting the moment. Despite a quarter of executives feeling bullish on the technology, only 12% of workers have received AI-related training in the past year. This lack of preparation not only hinders the successful and safe adoption of AI, but also creates […]

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If you’ve ever stared at a long scientific paper and thought, “There’s no way I’m getting through this today,” you’re not alone. Academics often struggle to keep up with the growing volume of research in their fields. SciSummary is not just another AI tool with generic outputs. It’s built specifically to help those in higher […]

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ChatGPT and similar bots often flatter users, ramble vaguely, or throw in jargon to sound smart. New research shows that these habits come not from the models alone but from the way human feedback trains them: the models learn to copy the style of answers humans tend to like, even when those answers are empty […]

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Meeting the 2040 target will require a 75% recycling rate for municipal waste, and similar streams The Environmental Services Association has published a position paper setting out its “vision” for a circular economy by 2040. The document was launched during an evening reception held by the group, a trade body for the UK’s waste and […]

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An overwhelming majority of environmental practitioners in England feel grossly undervalued by politicians, the public and other professions, according to a survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM). These findings have emerged despite heightened public awareness and mounting political momentum to address environmental challenges. The data are revealed by the […]

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week Deadly extremes FLOODING: Up to 700 people are believed to have been killed by flash floods in Nigeria, reported BBC News. Northern Nigeria has faced “prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change”, followed by “excessive rainfall”, which […]