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Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech
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Runway’s Gen-2 shows the limitations of today’s text-to-video tech

In a recent panel interview with Collider, Joe Russo, the director of tentpole Marvel films like “Avengers: Endgame,” predicted that, within two years, AI will be able to create a fully-fledged movie. It’d say that’s a rather optimistic timeline. But we’re getting closer. This week, Runway, a Google-backed AI startup that helped develop the AI...

UK’s AI safety summit gets thumbs up from tech giants
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UK’s AI safety summit gets thumbs up from tech giants

Make way for another forum on AI safety. The UK government has announced it will convene a “global” AI summit this fall with the aim of agreeing “safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI”, as its PR puts it. There’s no word on who will attend as yet — but...

NASA spends $45M to seed tech from hundreds of space businesses
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NASA spends $45M to seed tech from hundreds of space businesses

Hundreds of small aerospace businesses will receive grant funding from NASA to accelerate their technologies, as part of a wider government program to seed cutting-edge American enterprises. A total of 249 small businesses and 39 research institutions received Phase I grants under the space agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer...

TuSimple has started testing its self-driving truck tech in Japan
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TuSimple has started testing its self-driving truck tech in Japan

TuSimple, a publicly traded company developing self-driving trucks, is doing regular test runs on an expressway in Japan, marking its entrance into the island nation, the company said Tuesday. The testing on Japan’s Tomei Expressway, which connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, suggests TuSimple is doubling down on its Asia-focused business. Back in December, the company...

3rd Retrofit Tech Abu Dhabi Summit discusses energy efficiency and retrofitting strategies
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3rd Retrofit Tech Abu Dhabi Summit discusses energy efficiency and retrofitting strategies

ABU DHABI, 6th June, 2023 (WAM) – The third edition of Retrofit Tech Abu Dhabi Summit began today, with over 200 high-level decision makers from the energy efficiency, sustainability and retrofitting sectors.The Summit, which is officially hosted by Abu Dhabi Energy Services (ADES), a subsidiary of TAQA Group, is taking place under the theme ‘Unleashing...

MoIAT, EDGE launch Talk 4.0 to drive tech adoption, sustainable practices
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MoIAT, EDGE launch Talk 4.0 to drive tech adoption, sustainable practices

ABU DHABI, 6th June 2023 (WAM) — The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) and EDGE Group PJSC have jointly launched Talk 4.0, a new knowledge-exchange initiative to empower industrial leaders to adopt transformative technologies and sustainable practices. The new initiative follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two parties in August...