Synthesia’s artificial intelligence clones are more expressive and soon will talk back
Synthesia’s latest Express-2 model produces more lifelike avatars with improved gestures, voice cloning, and faster rendering. The company says future avatars will understand conversations and respond in real time.
Transforming cx with embedded real-time analytics
Stripe relied on embedded real-time analytics to handle peak Black Friday traffic and to stop millions of fraud attempts, enabling services such as usage-based billing and inventory monitoring. Firms that operate in real time report stronger revenue growth and margins, according to an MIT Center for Information Systems Research and Insight Partners survey.
Unnerving Artificial Intelligence avatars and Trump’s climate gift to China
Synthesia’s Artificial Intelligence avatars have become markedly more expressive and may soon be able to respond interactively. At the same time, US policy choices under Trump are helping extend China’s lead in clean energy.
Imagining the future of banking with agentic artificial intelligence
Agentic Artificial Intelligence is being adopted across banking to automate complex processes and improve customer outcomes. Banks and executives say adopting these capabilities and rearchitecting operations will be essential to remain competitive.
Fine Artificial Intelligence-powered content for modern marketing
Marketing teams face pressure to produce more formats, faster and cheaper. ProfileTree proposes augmenting human creativity with Artificial Intelligence to scale copy, imagery and video while preserving brand authenticity.
Intel outspent Nvidia and AMD on research and development in 2024
Intel spent significantly more on research and development in 2024 than Nvidia and AMD, with R&D equal to 31% of its net revenue compared with 10% for Nvidia and 26% for AMD.
Switzerland launches Apertus, a fully open multilingual large language model
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre have released Apertus, a fully open large language model trained on the Alps supercomputer and available in 8 billion and 70 billion parameter versions for research and commercial use.
A generative Artificial Intelligence approach to predicting chemical reactions
MIT researchers developed FlowER, a generative Artificial Intelligence system that uses electron-flow matrices to enforce conservation of mass and electrons when predicting chemical reaction mechanisms. The open-source model improves validity and mechanistic fidelity compared with prior approaches, while noting limits on metals and catalytic cycles.
SK hynix assembles industry´s first commercial high na euv system at M16
SK hynix has assembled what it calls the industry´s first High NA EUV lithography system for mass production at its M16 fabrication plant in Icheon, South Korea. Company and partner representatives marked the installation as a step toward next-generation dram production.
Resonac launches 27-member JOINT3 consortium to develop next-generation semiconductor packaging
Resonac has formed JOINT3, a 27-member co-creation evaluation framework, to develop materials, equipment and design tools for panel-level organic interposers. The company will open the Advanced Panel Level Interposer Center in Ibaraki, Japan, with a prototype line planned to start operations in 2026.