Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an…
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Okay, I’m slightly less mad about that ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ AI project
When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using generative AI, I was skeptical. More than that, I was baffled why anyone would spend time and money on…
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ByteDance Releases Protenix-v1: A New Open-Source Model Achieving AF3-Level Performance in Biomolecular Structure Prediction
How close can an open model get to AlphaFold3-level accuracy when it matches training data, model scale and inference budget? ByteDance has introduced Protenix-v1, a comprehensive AlphaFold3 (AF3) reproduction for biomolecular…
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Can’t escape the AI slop? Here are 3 handy ways to spot AI-generated music in Spotify, and what you can do to report it
The controversy around AI slop in the best music streaming services is still a huge topic of conversation, and recently Spotify has borne the brunt of user backlash.
There’s no doubt that fully AI-generated music is making the rounds and more…
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From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads
Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it,…
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Sunsetting the print server: why 2026 is the year to finally go serverless
Before I begin, let’s be clear. On-prem print servers aren’t bad, as such. And retiring your old print servers shouldn’t really be the core value proposition of cloud-based printing. The real value is simplifying your infrastructure and…
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‘Moflin had a really warm and fuzzy moment’ – a week with the robot pet that wriggled and squeaked its way into my heart
Moflin, from Casio, is a robot pet that looks similar to a guinea pig. It’s equipped with various sensors so it can respond when it’s being stroked or cuddled, plus actuators and a speaker so it can move, chirp, and squeak as you interact with…
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Decades before the current AI boom, Oracle’s Larry Ellison argued that applying AI to every problem was “the height of nonsense.”
In 1987, long before artificial intelligence became the mass-market obsession it is today, Computerworld convened a roundtable to discuss what was then a new and unsettled question: how AI might intersect with database systems.
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How to Design Production-Grade Mock Data Pipelines Using Polyfactory with Dataclasses, Pydantic, Attrs, and Nested Models
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced, end-to-end exploration of Polyfactory, focusing on how we can generate rich, realistic mock data directly from Python type hints. We start by setting up the environment and…
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How network modernization enables AI success and quantum readiness
Organizations are racing to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations to unlock data insights, automate business processes, and enable better customer engagement experiences. But outdated network architectures are throttling…
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