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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. Here’s how it’s worked pretty much since the old days when digital video first became possible. This is stuff like MPEG-2, H.264,

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO

But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. We have to look at how we interact with colleagues and how we interact with AI, he adds.

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7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

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There were new releases for AI video and image generation, too. Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It The AI can go deeper than a Google search.”

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

I even got this particular section framed and hung up at our office: Your mission Let's say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Blame the previous CTO.

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

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Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. Start with one [AI model], and you can start tailoring its behavior.

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John Carmack’s AGI startup raises $20M from Sequoia, Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison and others

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John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. That’s as opposed to AI systems today, which are designed for narrow, specific applications like generating art, driving cars, and playing video games.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. Founders: Co-founders Jeremy Dorn and Graham McNicoll both used to work at Education.com as chief architect and CTO respectively.