Sunday, June 18, 2023

Hands-on with an Adobe Photoshop beta's Generative Fill AI feature which lets users add objects to remove content from and expand images using text prompts (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
Hands-on with an Adobe Photoshop beta's Generative Fill AI feature, which lets users add objects to, remove content from, and expand images using text prompts  —  A new ‘generative fill’ AI capability can create joyful Photoshop edits — and frightening deepfakes



A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm (Lisa Bannon/Wall Street Journal)

Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal:
A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools, as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm  —  Artificial intelligence raises difficult questions about who makes the call in a health crisis: the human or the machine?



Investors of Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found "financial irregularities" at the healthtech startup which has raised $23M from Sequoia India and others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Investors of Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found “financial irregularities” at the healthtech startup, which has raised ~$23M from Sequoia India and others  —  Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the Indian health and wellness startup and are moving …



The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick which sold to Warner Music in 2017 (Michael Holden/Reuters)

Michael Holden / Reuters:
The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which sold to Warner Music in 2017  —  The British government said on Sunday that tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth would head its new taskforce to look at the safety risks posed by artificial intelligence.



Intel has agreed in principle to build a $25B manufacturing plant in Israel which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035 (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg:
Intel has agreed in principle to build a $25B manufacturing plant in Israel, which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035  —  Intel Corp. has agreed in principle to build a $25 billion manufacturing plant in Israel in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed …



How Huawei lost a $200M contract to build Danish telecom TDC's 5G network in 2019 after TDC opened a probe suspecting Huawei of unethical business practices (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
How Huawei lost a $200M contract to build Danish telecom TDC's 5G network in 2019, after TDC opened a probe suspecting Huawei of unethical business practices  —  At a hastily scheduled meeting on March 5, 2019, the bidding to upgrade Denmark's cellular network crossed over into something strange.



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...