New ‘Test-Time Training’ method lets AI keep learning without exploding inference costs

By allowing models to actively update their weights during inference, Test-Time Training (TTT) creates a "compressed memory" ...
Charlotte Observer

Charlotte train stabbing victim told man to ‘stop yelling’ before attack

A Honduran man accused of stabbing another man on Charlotte’s light rail Friday had previously been “officially banned” from using the train, a prosecutor revealed in a court hearing Monday. During ...
Variety

‘Train Dreams’ Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Shot the Film Using 99% of Natural Light

Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” follows the Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living in the Pacific NorthWest. Set in the late 1960s, “Train Dreams” is directed by “Sing ...
ZDNet

Google denies analyzing your emails for AI training - here's what happened

Google denies charges that it's analyzing your private emails to train its AIs. A class action lawsuit accuses Google of privacy violations. You may still want to opt out of the features in question.
The Verge

Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

Viral posts claim you need to opt out of Gmail’s ‘smart features’ to avoid having your emails used to train AI, but Google says it doesn’t use the content of your emails for AI training. Viral posts ...
Mashable

Google says it isn't using your Gmail to train AI

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...
Frontiers

Enhancing Bangla handwritten character recognition using Vision Transformers, VGG-16, and ResNet-50: a performance analysis

Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition (BHCR) remains challenging due to complex alphabets, and handwriting variations. In this study, we present a comparative evaluation of three deep learning ...
Wired

Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Team of Human Workers—to Train Robots

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...
PC Magazine

LinkedIn Is Using More User Data Than Ever to Train Its AI. Here's How to Opt Out

LinkedIn Is Using More User Data Than Ever to Train Its AI. Here's How to Opt Out As of Nov. 3, LinkedIn is now using data from members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong to train its ...
Variety

Trade Group Representing Studio Ghibli, Other Japanese Companies Tells OpenAI to Stop Using Their Content to Train Sora 2 Video Generator

Japanese content trade group CODA — whose members include award-winning animation house Studio Ghibli — issued a letter to OpenAI demanding the AI company stop using their content to train its Sora 2 ...
Ars Technica

Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

This week, Meta asked a US district court to toss a lawsuit alleging that the tech giant illegally torrented pornography to train AI. The move comes after Strike 3 Holdings discovered illegal ...