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Adtech Startup Funding Has Collapsed

Adtech Startup Funding Has Collapsed

For a long time, adtech startups regularly picked up billions of dollars in venture funding in a given year. Not anymore. So far this year, U.S. advertising-focused startups have raised only around $360 million, per Crunchbase data. That puts the industry on track for the slowest year in over a decade. For a sense of how far funding has fallen, we charted out annual adtech investment from 2015 till today. In addition to putting less money into the space, investors are also backing fewer deals. Round counts this year are also on track to hit the lowest level in years.…
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Deep Clustering via Distribution Learning

Deep Clustering via Distribution Learning

arXiv:2408.03407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution learning finds probability density functions from a set of data samples, whereas clustering aims to group similar data points to form clusters. Although there are deep clustering methods that employ distribution learning methods, past work still lacks theoretical analysis regarding the relationship between clustering and distribution learning. Thus, in this work, we provide a theoretical analysis to guide the optimization of clustering via distribution learning. To achieve better results, we embed deep clustering guided by a theoretical analysis. Furthermore, the distribution learning method cannot always be directly applied to data. To overcome this issue,…
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AI Foundation Models in Remote Sensing: A Survey

AI Foundation Models in Remote Sensing: A Survey

arXiv:2408.03464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have profoundly transformed the field of remote sensing, revolutionizing data collection, processing, and analysis. Traditionally reliant on manual interpretation and task-specific models, remote sensing has been significantly enhanced by the advent of foundation models--large-scale, pre-trained AI models capable of performing a wide array of tasks with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of foundation models in the remote sensing domain, covering models released between June 2021 and June 2024. We categorize these models based on their applications in computer vision and domain-specific tasks, offering insights into their…
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Generative AI Has a “Shoplifting” Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It

Generative AI Has a “Shoplifting” Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It

Bill Gross made his name in the tech world in the 1990s, when he came up with a novel way for search engines to make money on advertising. Under his pricing scheme, advertisers would pay when people clicked on their ads. Now, the “pay-per-click” guy has founded a startup called ProRata, which has an audacious, possibly pie-in-the-sky business model: “AI pay-per-use.”Gross, who is CEO of the Pasadena, California, company, doesn’t mince words about the generative AI industry. “It’s stealing,” he says. “They’re shoplifting and laundering the world’s knowledge to their benefit.”AI companies often argue that they need vast troves of…
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Passenger sues American Airlines, claiming he broke his ankle while letting someone go to the bathroom

Passenger sues American Airlines, claiming he broke his ankle while letting someone go to the bathroom

A passenger is suing American Airlines after he said he broke his ankle while getting out of his seat to let someone use the bathroom.Maryland resident Gael Severoni said he was injured after falling during a bout of turbulence while flying from Washington DC to New Orleans in August 2023, according to a lawsuit filed in Eastern District Court of Louisiana.The suit comes as concerns rise over extreme turbulence, with an expert previously telling Business Insider that such cases are on the rise due to global warming.Severoni, who was sitting in an aisle seat, said in the lawsuit that his…
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EXAONE 3.0 7.8B Instruction Tuned Language Model

EXAONE 3.0 7.8B Instruction Tuned Language Model

arXiv:2408.03541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce EXAONE 3.0 instruction-tuned language model, the first open model in the family of Large Language Models (LLMs) developed by LG AI Research. Among different model sizes, we publicly release the 7.8B instruction-tuned model to promote open research and innovations. Through extensive evaluations across a wide range of public and in-house benchmarks, EXAONE 3.0 demonstrates highly competitive real-world performance with instruction-following capability against other state-of-the-art open models of similar size. Our comparative analysis shows that EXAONE 3.0 excels particularly in Korean, while achieving compelling performance across general tasks and complex reasoning. With its strong…
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Proton Pass now supports Touch ID and Windows Hello biometric logins

Proton Pass now supports Touch ID and Windows Hello biometric logins

Proton’s password manager is gradually catching up with rivals like 1Password. The company, known initially for its encrypted email and VPN services, added biometric authentication to its Proton Pass app, which came out of beta earlier this year. The feature works with Touch ID on macOS and Windows Hello on Microsoft’s desktop OS.Like with many other services, biometric authentication lets Proton Pass users quickly unlock the security app using their fingerprint or face without typing the login password every time. However, it isn’t available for free users: Only those on a Pass Plus plan (and above) get access. The minimum…
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Anglo Revamp, Unity Government Seen Igniting South Africa Stocks

Anglo Revamp, Unity Government Seen Igniting South Africa Stocks

A business-friendly coalition government and plans by Anglo American Plc to spin off one large subsidiary and possibly list another may trigger a sustained rally in South African stocks, the head of the main local bourse said. Even with the turmoil currently running through global stock markets, these developments are poised to snap South African equities out of more than a decade of torpor caused by economic stagnation and collapsing power and logistics services, said Leila Fourie, the chief executive officer of JSE Ltd., which runs the exchange. Source link lol
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