Consumer AI: New Tools for Translation and Shopping Both Google and Amazon introduced significant AI-powered features for everyday users. Google Translate added major upgrades that blur the line between translator and language teacher. Users can now carry on a conversation with someone in another language, and the app will automatically translate both sides in real-time…
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What Exactly Is Dolby Vision 2? How It Differs from Original Dolby Vision More than ten years after Dolby Vision first launched, Dolby Vision 2 marks the next generation of Dolby’s high dynamic range (HDR) video technology theverge.com. The original Dolby Vision (DV) set the gold standard for HDR by using dynamic metadata – allowing…
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Key Facts Alibaba’s AI-Fueled Stock Surge Alibaba Group sparked a market frenzy to kick off September, as its shares in Hong Kong leapt nearly 19% on Sept. 1 – the stock’s biggest single-day jump since 2022 tbsnews.net. The rally came after Alibaba’s latest earnings revealed better-than-expected results in its cloud computing unit, thanks in large…
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Corporate Moves and New AI Tools Microsoft Debuts Homegrown AI Models After years of exclusively backing OpenAI’s models, Microsoft announced two powerful AI systems built in-house semafor.com. The first is MAI-1-preview, a text generative model intended to power future versions of Microsoft’s Copilot assistant across Windows and Office semafor.com. The second is MAI-Voice-1, an advanced…
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Key Facts AI Mega-Caps: Hype vs. Reality in Late-August Markets The final days of August saw a tug-of-war between AI-fueled optimism and growing caution among the market’s most valuable tech companies. Nowhere was this more evident than with Nvidia, the poster child of the AI boom. The GPU giant reported another quarter of blowout earnings,…
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Global Policy & Regulation: AI Under the Microscope China Enforces Sweeping AI Content Labels On September 1, China’s ambitious new “Regulations on the Identification of AI-Generated Content” came into force, marking one of the world’s strictest regimes for AI media. The rules require every AI-generated piece of content to be clearly flagged as such –…
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Introduction: A New Wave of Automation Artificial intelligence has kicked off a revolution in workplaces around the world. Recent advances – especially in generative AI like large language models and image generators – enable machines to perform tasks once thought to be uniquely human. From drafting reports to driving vehicles, AI systems are now capable of cognitive and…
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Key Facts From Hype to Reality: AI’s Role in Radiology Today Not long ago, headlines confidently predicted that artificial intelligence would overtake radiologists by the 2020s. In 2016, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton famously suggested we should “stop training radiologists” because deep learning would outperform them within five years newrepublic.com newrepublic.com. Similar forecasts in top journals…
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Key Facts and Findings AI’s Growing Role in IT: Hype vs. Reality For years we’ve heard bold predictions that artificial intelligence would soon replace swaths of IT specialists – from software developers to system admins. The hype surged with each AI breakthrough, but the reality in 2025 is that human IT professionals are still very much…
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Sources: Recent information and quotations were drawn from Engineered Arts’ official releases and documentation hnf.de hnf.de, news reports and expert commentary in 2024–2025 (Interesting Engineering interestingengineering.com interestingengineering.com, San José Spotlight sanjosespotlight.com, TechRadar techradar.com techradar.com), a press release via Business Wire businesswire.com businesswire.com, analytics and blog coverage of the humanoid robotics industry analyticsvidhya.com analyticsvidhya.com mikekalil.com, and…
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