The Good Quarter

The past two weeks, I’ve focused on some of the bigger news coming out of this earnings season, so I thought it was only fair to recap all the results I did not get a chance to cover. Here’s a breakdown of what the magnificent 7 reported recently, minus Nvidia, which is yet to report … Read more

Mastering Stable Diffusion 3: A Comprehensive Guide to Using SwarmUI for Stunning AI Art

Don’t skip a second of this tutorial if you want to master Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) using the cutting-edge generative AI open-source app, SwarmUI. While Automatic1111 SD Web UI and Fooocus don’t yet support SD3, SwarmUI has you covered. Developed by StabilityAI, #StableSwarmUI will amaze you with its incredible features. It builds on #ComfyUI’s robust … Read more

Why Direct Sourcing is Crucial for the Future of Work

In the current dynamic employment landscape, direct sourcing has become an essential tactic for businesses looking to maximize their talent acquisition efforts. Recent data indicates that sixty percent of large businesses either use direct sourcing programs now or want to do so in the future. However, what is direct sourcing exactly? Fundamentally, direct sourcing entails … Read more

Addressing Bias in AI Models Used for University Admissions Decisions

Poring through university admissions applications takes immense manual labor, and human bias is often the subject of questionable headlines because of poor decision-making. AI could solve this problem, but bias oversights are still plentiful enough to negatively impact a student’s future. How Is AI Used in College Admissions? AI does more than scan college applications … Read more

xAI’s new Grok-2 chatbots bring AI image generation to X

Image: xAI Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini: two new models of its Grok chatbot that offer upgraded performance and new image-generation capabilities. Grok’s prompt-based image maker is powered by Black Forest Lab’s Flux 1 AI model, and allows users to generate and publish images directly to the X social … Read more

FaceStudio: Put Your Face Everywhere in Seconds: Abstract and Intro

:::info (1) Yuxuan Yan,Tencent with Equal contributions and yuxuanyan@tencent.com; (2) Chi Zhang, Tencent with Equal contributions and Corresponding Author, johnczhang@tencent.com; (3) Rui Wang, Tencent and raywwang@tencent.com; (4) Yichao Zhou, Tencent and yichaozhou@tencent.com; (5) Gege Zhang, Tencent and gretazhang@tencent.com; (6) Pei Cheng, Tencent and peicheng@tencent.com; (7) Bin Fu, Tencent and brianfu@tencent.com; (8) Gang Yu, Tencentm and … Read more

Ethereum Set for Overhaul of Crucial Programming Standard With ‘EVM Object Format’

The EOF proposal is a series of smaller EIPs that include measures aimed at updating and improving the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the programming environment that executes smart contracts on the blockchain, and arguably Ethereum’s secret sauce that made it different from Bitcoin and other early distributed networks at the time it launched in 2015.