Netflix Buys Ready Player Me, an Avatar-Creation Developer, to Let Users Make Their Own Gaming Personas

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform.

Apple builds single AI model that can see, create and edit images

Apple researchers presented UniGen 1.5, a system that can handle image understanding, generation, and editing within a single ...

I got an up-close look at Roblox's new safety feature. Here's what I found.

I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Luma releases a new AI model that lets users generate a video from a start and end frame

Luma, the a16z-backed AI video and 3D model company, released a new model called Ray3 Modify that allows users to modify ...

As Hollywood Navigates Roblox and Fortnite, What’s Working — and What Isn’t

How Roblox and Fortnite are being utilized by Hollywood studios to spread brand awareness, even as safety proves to be an issue.
Computerworld

With Workspace Studio, Google wants workers to build their own AI agents

The no-code application lets users create and customize up to 100 agents using natural language and muti-step actions. Google this week launched Workspace Studio, promising to let a wide range of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Small Language Models Create New Security Risks

The rollout of edge AI is creating new security risks due to a mix of small language models (SLMs), their integration into increasingly complex hardware, and the behavior and interactions of both over ...
Wired

Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own

Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models—and a new way for customers to build frontier models of their own. The ecommerce giant announced the second generation of ...