This week in artificial intelligence (AI) news, a new technique, “Quiet-STaR,” teaches AI to think and chat more like humans by considering various ideas before answering, improving how we interact with technology. Significant investments in AI, including Nvidia’s robot project, GR00T, are rapidly advancing AI’s...
By Stefan Geirhofer and Scott McKinney Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) refers to a category of machine learning models that, in response to a user’s input prompt, can generate output based on the prompt. The generated content can be of different types, including text, computer source...
Since the dawn of software, there have been two types of development: open source and closed source. A simple binary with complex ramifications, it is from these two varietals that the entire digital landscape we inhabit and operate across has sprung. As one might expect,...
Open-source commerce solution WooCommerce, which was built on WordPress, has deepened a partnership with buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Affirm to offer new ways of paying over time in installments, a press release said Tuesday (May 24). Eligible WooCommerce businesses can offer Affirm at...
September 15, 2023
By Stefan Geirhofer and Scott McKinney Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) refers to a category of machine learning models that, in response to a user’s input prompt, can generate output based on the prompt. The generated content can be of different types, including text, computer source code, images, audio, and video. Developing GenAI models from scratch […]
March 18, 2020
Every consumer has gone through at least one iteration in their commercial life of the clunky, junky product search. It starts with a basic idea of what one is looking...
March 17, 2020
To stay competitive, especially with digital startups unencumbered by legacy systems, traditional financial institutions (FIs) need to deliver seamless customer services to individual consumers and enterprise customers alike. To that...
March 07, 2019
It might be the case that 2019 takes shape as a watershed year for payments regulation, marked by PSD2 and GDPR. Stakeholders in the financial services and payments arenas are navigating...
May 24, 2022
Open-source commerce solution WooCommerce, which was built on WordPress, has deepened a partnership with buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Affirm to offer new ways of paying over time in installments, a press release said Tuesday (May 24). Eligible WooCommerce businesses can offer Affirm at checkout more easily, or PayBright in Canada, which is an […]
September 16, 2019
Square Crypto has announced that it is giving the first of many grants to support open-source bitcoin projects to the BTCPay Foundation. The crypto-focused branch of mobile payment company Square...
August 21, 2019
The Linux Foundation has announced that it will be forming a consortium dedicated to boosting the adoption of confidential computing. Companies including Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft,...
July 16, 2019
Uber AI, the ride-hailing company’s artificial intelligence division, has released an open-source AI platform called the Plato Research Dialogue System, according to a report by Venturebeat. The platform is made...
