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CARMEL — A Carmel boy has his feet on the ground and his eyes on his goals.He is on track to break the Guinness World Record as the youngest person to complete a 100-mile trail race.Race day is next month. Stephanie Abbott Run 100 miles in under 30 hours by the time you're 13. That's what Gabriel Abbott needs to break the record.”I want to set goals and achieve them,” said Abbott, an eighth-grader at Clay Middle School. “We started investigating: Could someone that young have done it? And the youngest we found were these two kids who did it…
Has Google given up on guardrails?Camera FakeGoogle's latest AI photo editing tool, “Reimagine,” lets you add or remove objects in photos using text prompts, with the results being “mysterious,” reports The Verge.The feature, introduced by Google alongside the launch of its Pixel 9 smartphone earlier this month, allows anyone to tweak photos within the camera app, easily making it possible to unintentionally discredit a photo.Examples shared by The Verge's Chris Welch included a photorealistic image of the aftermath of a bike-car collision, a lion roaming behind a locked gate, and “a mysterious liquid spurting from a Metro-North train.”Corpses and drugsThroughout…
To receive industry-leading AI updates and exclusive content, sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters. Learn more Vectara just made it a lot easier to develop generative AI. The Palo Alto, California-based company, a pioneer in the field of search augmentation generative (RAG), has announced the Vectara Portal, an open-source environment that enables anyone to build AI applications that interact with data. While there are many commercial services that allow users to get instant answers from documentation, what sets Vectara Portal apart is its accessibility and ease of use: by following a few basic steps, anyone, regardless of technical…
This whale alert helps traders to discover the next big trading opportunity. The whales are entities with deep pockets, and we track their trades with Benzinga's options activity scanner. Traders often look for situations where market estimates for an option diverge from their normal value: an unusual amount of trading activity can push the option price to unusual or lower-than-expected levels. Below is an example of options trading taking place in the information technology sector. Symbol PUT/CALL Trade Type Sentiment Exp. Date Strike Total Trade Price Open Interest Volume NVDA Call Trades Bearish 08/23/24 $129.00 $25.0K 32.4K 189.5K INTC Put…
Now that we're halfway through the year, it's no wonder that the well-intentioned resolutions you made in January have all but fallen by the wayside. With the stresses of modern life showing little sign of abating, if your desire for overall health and well-being has at this point diminished, now may be the time to give yourself a much-needed rest and a chance to reset. There's no doubt that a luxurious vacation has its advantages when it comes to getting some much-needed rest and relaxation, but for most of us, the high that accompanies a vacation quickly fades the moment…
Ukrinform organized a roundtable entitled “Central Asia: media landscape and Russian influence”. On August 20, Ukrinform hosted a roundtable entitled “Central Asia: media landscape and Russian influence”, coordinated by the Center for Strategic Communications and Intelligence Security (CSCIS) with the support of the Private Diplomacy Foundation. The discussion was moderated by Maksim Vikurov, an analyst at the Center for Strategic Communications. Vikurov emphasized that CSCIS regularly hosts events discussing the impact of Russian propaganda around the world and ways to counter it, and has previously organized a series of panel discussions on the Arab world, Africa and countries of the…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is building a supercomputer that uses advanced AI to teach his company's cars to drive themselves.One of these massive new AI data centers is being built inside Tesla's offices in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley.Walking down a small hill at the back of the parking lot, a tough reality of AI projects emerges: AI data centers consume far more electricity than traditional cloud facilities, causing spikes in demand that are disrupting the entire power grid.In mid-August, I parked behind the Tesla office parking lot for a look at the site: a dusty, gravel area where workers were…
Perplexity's plans to compete in the advertising arena are becoming a little clearer.New advertiser pitch decks show how the AI search startup is hoping to differentiate itself from rival startups like ChatGPT and larger players like Google in order to win over advertisers later this year. The plan is to embed ads into user questions and answers, which could happen as early as the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a copy of the presentation obtained by Digiday. One page of the presentation said that buying ads on Perplexity allows brands to “reach, educate and spark curiosity in high-impact moments.”…
A striking photo has circulated of the three Bowlen players, Cooper Hastings, Jett Matthews and Gray Collins, beaming with smiles and bright eyes after another big win at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.What's striking about this photo isn't the composition or the colors, but the age of the players: The boys are 5 years old, and two of them have lost their baby teeth. In the summer of 2017, they were Bowen Little League T-ball champions. On Saturday, they hope to become U.S. Little League champions. No San Antonio-area team has ever won a title or advanced…
The post-Paris 2024 roadshow moves to Silesia on Sunday (25th) where a host of Olympic medallists will entertain an expected crowd of over 30,000 for the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Tournament, the 12th tournament of this season's Wanda Diamond League. Three days after moving into a tie for second on the all-time 800m list with a time of 1:41.11, matching the previous world record set by Denmark's Wilson Kipketer, 20-year-old Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi will once again face a stellar field that includes world champion Marco Arop of Canada and world indoor champion Bryce Hoppel of the United States. Norway's Jacob Ingebrigtsen,…