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Just a week after Bytedance’s amazing launch of Omnihuman-1, Baidu, an AI model that turns photos into realistic human videos, is preparing to release the next generation of artificial intelligence models later this year . According to an exclusive report from CNBC, Baidu’s new model, Ernie 5, includes the ability to process and convert between text, video, images and audio. Known as the “foundation model,” Ernie 5 is expected to significantly improve on these different forms of handling, but certain details remain under the wrap. “China’s Baidu is planning to release the next generation of artificial intelligence models later this…
February 12, 2025Ravi LakshmananContainer Security/Vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have escaping container isolation protection and bypassing current patched security vulnerabilities in the Nvidia Container Toolkit that could be leveraged to gain full access to the underlying host. I discovered it. The new vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-23359 (CVSS score: 8.3). It affects the next version – nvidia Container Toolkit (all versions up to 1.17.3) – Fixed in version 1.17.4 NVIDIA GPU operator (all versions up to 24.9.1) – Fixed in version 24.9.2 “The Nvidia Container Toolkit for Linux contains a vulnerability for time used (Toctou) when used in the default configuration. This…
Adobe wants to take advantage of the early success of the Firefly AI model by launching a new standalone subscription service that allows users to access the company’s AI images, vectors and video generation models. This is Adobe’s most audacious attempt, seeking to turn the Firefly AI model into a real product. The company is also launching a redesigned web page, Firefly.adobe.com. Here you can use Adobe’s AI model. This includes the new Firefly AI video models deployed on the Firefly website and the public beta version of the Premiere Pro Beta app. Adobe’s Firefly AI model created this. Does…
Popular Crypto Market analyst Egrag Crypto predicts the key price pump for XRP. Egrag believes it will be possible to increase the price of the world’s third largest market hat by 1,500%. With a 1,500% increase, XRP is 39.52 from the current 2.47. Egrag’s predicted size XRP pump may set the tone of the bull run in the crypto sector. When major assets like Bitcoin (BTC) rise, they carry several other things and pumps are also recorded. Crypto Investors can prepare this pump by picking the next 100x coins early and spreading its portfolio in anticipation of the pump. These…
Food-centric e-commerce startups continue to raise funds as investors look for a sticky consumer concept that can expand without breaking the bank. On Wednesday, German Lunch closed 26 million euros ($27 million) of funds to develop popular food brands along with retail networks to distribute them using social media and influencers. and expanded our business. The Series A round is co-led by Felix and HV Capital. Although Lunch doesn’t disclose ratings, I understand that this is definitely an upround. The startup has raised about $34 million so far (including this seed round in 2023). So, a typical Series A multiple…
The Zelle icon displayed on the phone screen and the Zelle logo displayed on the background screen are shown in this illustrated photo taken in Krakow, Poland.Jakub Porzycki | nuphoto | Getty ImagesZelle, a payment network run by bank-owned early warning services, totaled over $1 trillion in the last year.The company said Wednesday that its user base jumped from 12% to 151 million accounts in 2024, with the total amount sent to the platform increasing 27% from the previous year.Denise Leonhard, general manager of Zelle, told CNBC last year that payments were “more than ever before due to P2P payment…
The Kremlin says Ukrainian forces will either be “destroyed” or pushed out of seized Russian territory.Russia refused to trade in Ukrainian territory, which it occupied for its own Kursk region region, which it owns by Kiev forces, hours after launching a barrage of drones and missiles into the Ukrainian capital that killed one. . Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that in a late interview on Tuesday it was “impossible” to embrace the ideas that had come to light by Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelensky. “Russia has never discussed the topic of exchanging its territory,” he said. He said…
Nature-based carbon removal startup Chestnut Carbon has raised $160 million in Series B funding, the company told TechCrunch. Startups buy limits and degraded farmland, plant native trees on them, and harvest the resulting carbon credits. Carbon credits are hot, especially among tech companies considering offsetting the surge in emissions caused by the fierce expansion of data centers serving cloud and AI customers. It is a product. The new round included investments from Canada’s Pension Planning Investment Committee, Cloverley and DBL Partners. For chestnut carbon, $160 million is actually a somewhat modest amount. When the company was founded, private equity firm…
A long stagnant bid to strengthen European Union regulations on online tracking technology and set penalties on a similar footing to Bloc’s data protection framework, GDPR, committee members after co-scholars failed to reach a plan agreement It was withdrawn by the meeting. The original proposal to update the ePrivacy directive and turn it into a full-fledged PAN-EU regulation dates back to 2017. So writing is on the wall for quite some time. However, the effort was formally dead as of Wednesday – the committee will give a “no foreseeable agreement” to a list of legislative initiatives that have been withdrawn…
The field of veterinary medicine is evolving rapidly, expanding beyond traditional animal health concerns and playing a key role in one global health initiative. One concept of health recognizes that human, animal and environmental health are interrelated and that interdisciplinary collaboration is required to tackle the threat of emerging health. Recent research from the Western Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) at the University of Saskatchewan highlights groundbreaking research projects addressing key challenges in public health, antibiotic resistance, reproductive health and zoonotic diseases. Supported by nearly $1.47 million in research funding from the Canadian Institute of Health, these projects are at the forefront…