YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot

After generating over 10 million social media impressions with the launch of its text-to-3D model app, Adam has raised a $4.1 ...
The Star Democrat

Diagrimo Officially Launches: Turn Text into Visuals Instantly

Diagrimo, an AI-powered visualization tool from Tenorshare, has officially launched, enabling users to instantly turn text into clean, structured visual diagrams.

Apple just dropped a research dataset to help train AI image editing models

Apple has released Pico-Banana-400K, a highly curated 400,000-image research dataset which, interestingly, was built using ...
IEEE

Data Augmentation for Image Classification Using Generative AI

Abstract: Scaling laws dictate that the performance of AI models is proportional to the amount of available data. Data augmentation is a promising solution to expanding the dataset size. Traditional ...
GitHub

OmniSQL - Synthesizing High-quality Text-to-SQL Data at Scale

We present an automatic and scalable text-to-SQL data synthesis framework, illustrated below: Building on SynSQL-2.5M, we introduce OmniSQL, a family of powerful text-to-SQL models available in three ...

Unlock the Secrets of Google Colab: Your Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

Learn how to use Google Colab for coding, data science, and AI projects with this beginner-friendly guide. Free GPU access ...
Engadget

Google's Veo 3.1 is better at generating videos from images

A collection of frames from videos generated with Veo 3.1 (Google) Google has released a new update to its Veo AI video generation model that should make it do a better job of sticking to prompts and ...
Wired

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
Bleeping Computer

Fake 'Inflation Refund' texts target New Yorkers in new scam

An ongoing smishing campaign is targeting New Yorkers with text messages posing as the Department of Taxation and Finance, claiming to offer "Inflation Refunds" in an attempt to steal victims' ...
marktechpost

Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...
IEEE

Towards Reliable Verification of Unauthorized Data Usage in Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are pushing the boundaries of what generative AI can achieve in our lives. Beyond their ability to generate general images, new personalization techniques have ...