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Dream Mat is a great way to improve texture generation for 3D objects. It uses a number of classical graphic techniques such as Albedo, Metallic, and Roughness to render an extremely compelling output given a 3D mesh.
Researchers have introduced LlamaCare, a fine-tuned large language model (LLM) for medical knowledge, along with Extended Classification Integration (ECI) to address classification issues in LLMs.
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Security teams have long struggled to understand what's in their cloud environments and their exposure to risks. As part of Orca's move towards AI-driven cloud security [12], the platform now answers natural language questions such as “do we have any S3 Buckets that allow public READ access?”. Read more and see examples on the Orca
XRec is a model-agnostic framework that leverages the language capabilities of large language models to enhance explainable recommender systems.
GenS is an end-to-end generalizable neural surface reconstruction model that excels in reconstructing surfaces from multi-view images without 3D supervision.
Researchers have found a way to eliminate matrix multiplication (MatMul) from large language models while maintaining strong performance, even at the billion-parameter scale.
Stability AI has released the weights to Stable Audio which was trained to generate sound effects on permissively licensed audio samples.
OpenAI's recent brain drain and focus on consumer products complicates its path to competing with big tech.
The future of AI foundation models will be closed-source due to the centralizing forces of data and compute, which favor economically viable and secure closed models over open-source alternatives.
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New findings from BrightEdge Generative Parser reveal the primary industries impacted by AI Overviews, what triggers results, and where Google automatically anticipates and answers search queries.
Generate studio-grade videos — complete with custom lighting, varied camera angles, and different backgrounds — without the studio.
CV-VAE is a video VAE compatible with existing image and video models that offers spatio-temporally compressed latent spaces, enabling efficient training of new video models using pre-trained ones.
Paxos has launched a new yield-generating stablecoin called Lift Dollar (USDL). The USDL is regulated by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and offers a programmatic daily yield similar to U.S. Treasury bonds. Issued by Paxos International in the UAE, the USDL is designed to function like a savings product. It provides users with a yield of over 5% while democratizing access to a risk-free rate. The USDL will be initially distributed in Argentina through partners like Ripio and Buenbit.
Influenced by the ETF news, technological improvements, and onchain data, asset manager VanEck has raised its 2030 ETH price target to $22k. This is its base case, with a bull case of $154,000 and a bear case of $2,477. VanEck also reported on how ETH and BTC perform in traditional and crypto-specific portfolios, finding that a 6% allocation in a traditional portfolio can improve risk-adjusted returns.
Coinbase has launched a smart wallet designed to facilitate the onboarding of a billion users by enhancing the capabilities and ease of use of self-custodial wallets. These innovative wallets are positioned as a key element in expanding global access to blockchain networks.
Polymer Labs created Monomer SDK in partnership with Nethermind. Monomer SDK can take any Cosmos SDK app and make it deployable as an execution layer on the OP Stack. This approach allows the InterBlockchain Communication (IBC) protocol to be used for bridging alongside additional Cosmos tooling and tech.
The base case priced in by Wall Street this quarter is a 20% reduction in trading revenue and a 3% reduction in service revenue, with $1.35B in revenue and 87 cents of earnings per share. The optimistic case depends on the start of trading for the ETH ETF and would see $1.52B in revenue with $1.44 EPS.
This report explains the processes and entities behind Ethereum's decision-making process. Ethereum's decision-making process is primarily shaped by social norms, not formal rules or voting mechanisms. Forums serve as a place of discussion and research, with nine main client team GitHubs hosting the software changes. Though core developers are the main gatekeepers, the trend has been towards consistently upgrading and modifying the chain to optimize toward an ideal endgame.
Vitalik Buterin is unhappy with this cycle's celebrity entrants in the crypto space, criticizing their purely financial and speculative intentions. He cites Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis' Stoner Cats NFT project, which funded a cartoon based on the IP, as the best example of celebrity experimentation. In his view, a respectable project should have a public good goal, fun mechanics, and be long-lasting, with the token price being the last concern for its users.
If tokens are the product, they flip the traditional model of creating value without capturing it first. Tokens serve as a prediction market for investors' interest in a project's direction and the likelihood it will happen, making them a narrative discovery tool and creating tight feedback loops for teams. Since tokens immediately allow teams to receive more capital for a proposed product, they act as a more efficient and faster version of VC funding. Memes are necessary to ensure sufficient and consistent interest and liquidity, keeping the project relevant and with an army of supporters.
Stablecoins are in the midst of becoming a massive industry. We may see thousands and potentially the first $1T stablecoin this decade. Even though fiat currency worldwide is experiencing inflation, the current fifth technical revolution means that there will be significant demand for niche products in the digital age. Stablecoins, many with different designs and developer composability, enable a big-bang moment leading to greater capture of the “broad money M2” market.
Bybit, the third largest offshore exchange, has controversially opened up registration and authentication for users in China, despite its long-standing policy against Chinese user registration and a clear statement on its certification page that it does not offer services in Mainland China.
Friend Tech's daily active users (DAU) have plummeted to 177, raising doubts about the sustainability of hyper-financialized social apps.
Multiple ways exist to earn double-digit yields on stablecoins and ETH using strategies on Curve, Pendle, and Ethena.
Sanctum, a platform for aggregating Solana LSTs, has announced plans for a token.
Google Photos is set to receive a significant update that will enhance its sharing and notification features. The overhaul will include a new social-focused “Sharing Activity” page, similar to Instagram and Facebook, for more accessible interactions with likes and comments on photos. A revamped storage meter will visually display how much storage can be reclaimed, streamlining the deletion process. These updates indicate Google's intention to integrate more social elements into Google Photos, transforming it from a simple photo backup app to a more interactive platform.
ElevenLabs has introduced "Text to Sound," an AI Audio model that generates sound effects, instrumental tracks, soundscapes, and character voices from text prompts. This new tool aims to assist creators, including those in film, television, video games, and social media, by providing high-quality audio content quickly and affordably. Partnering with Shutterstock, ElevenLabs fine-tuned the model using Shutterstock's extensive audio library, enhancing the tool's versatility.
Former technology executive Robert Scott Murray pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud for a scheme to inflate Getty Images' share price. Once the CEO of 3Com, Murray attempted to manipulate Getty's stock to sell his 300,000 shares for a higher profit. He issued misleading news releases through his venture, Trillium Capital, and announced a false bid to acquire Getty at $10 per share, nearly double the previous closing price. The SEC deemed the bid “false and misleading,” noting Murray quickly liquidated his shares for approximately $1.49 million without securing funds for the acquisition.
The top three problems for designers at work right now are limited ability to conduct research and receive feedback, lack of design strategy, and no career progression opportunities. Design is an unequal partner in the design/product/engineering trifecta, which is why most companies don't have design leadership and most designers need to work with multiple product managers.
AI offers immense potential but needs responsible development to ensure privacy and user safety. This article dives into generative AI and privacy, emphasizing the need for embedded privacy protections. It discusses practical ways to mitigate privacy risks, especially during the application phase, and highlights the importance of collaboration and innovation to balance privacy with AI's benefits.
Designers often limit their growth by focusing only on visual creativity and avoiding decision-making, resulting in mediocre work as non-designers make vital decisions. To break this cycle, designers should develop leadership and influence skills, expand their definition of design talent to include these abilities, and encourage more designers to take on decision-making roles.
Jector is an AI-powered tool that lets users quickly generate custom product backgrounds for e-commerce images.
Get an in-depth look at the Figma files from designers at top companies such as Perplexity AI, Bezi, Lottie Files, and more.
The Open Database of Design Salaries promotes salary transparency and pay equity for design pros across different industries, experience levels, and locations.
Balancing low-fidelity and high-fidelity design is crucial for quick learning. Low-fidelity artifacts aid idea gathering and high-fidelity tools enable testing and sharing. The focus should be designing an effective feedback process using the most efficient tools, such as Maze, Figma, or live mockups for user testing, to reach value swiftly.
A park's restorative power depends on its green spaces, design, and community integration. Similarly, a product's value extends beyond usability to evoking emotions and a sense of beauty. This is achieved by designers immersing themselves in their humanity.
Traditional research-led projects are being integrated into product work, with stages like analyzing and synthesizing remaining crucial. Continuous discovery, involving weekly customer conversations, is essential, but must include critical thinking and reflection to avoid becoming routine.
Two new CSS features will simplify animations by enabling direct transitions to and from `display: none;` and intrinsic sizes like `height: auto;`, reducing the need for JavaScript.
Mother Design's rebrand for Air Up balances maturity and playfulness with vibrant colors and a custom typeface, reflecting the product's unique flavor-through-scent concept.
Every year, the NFL challenges rookies to draw their team logos from memory, resulting in hilariously bad sketches that sometimes end up on T-shirts.
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A recent survey revealed that a majority of Americans look through more search results and spend more time looking for services now compared to five years ago. The findings reveal a growing dissatisfaction with search engine performance despite advancements in AI technology. Only 12% of respondents found PPC ads relevant, indicating a need for better ad targeting.
Quick point-and-shoot product placements and fast fashion hauls are becoming outdated in the influencer industry. This post predicts upcoming shifts, including increased investment in influencer marketing by 75% of B2B marketers. They will likely engage key leaders and experts in niche industries and host campaigns on platforms like LinkedIn. Brands will use their employees as brand ambassadors to better connect with consumers. As social media usage declines, influencers will gather loyal fans into more intimate digital spaces, like brand forums or broadcast channels.
SEO can help startups dominate a niche, attract high-intent leads, and boost online brand visibility early. The biggest mindset shift needed to succeed with startup SEO is realizing it's not about your offering – it's about your customers and what they're searching for. Startups should prioritize search intent over product messaging, create content that demonstrates E-E-A-T, implement on-page and technical SEO best practices, and stay consistent with SEO improvements. This article provides advice on building E-E-A-T, content co-creation strategies, and SEO mistakes to avoid.
Joseph Lee, the founder of Supademo, an AI-powered product demo tool, shares growth tactics starting with a 4-step SaaS validation framework. The framework involves problem identification, focus definition, hypothesis development, and solution delivery. Supademo's initial growth relied on unscalable tactics, such as manual outreach and leveraging networks. Viral loops, accounting for 70% of Supademo's acquisition, and SEO, contributing 20-25% of signups, were crucial strategies. Sidecar products (complimentary free tools), co-marketing, and reverse trials also drove growth.
AI can significantly reduce the time and effort needed to create high-quality content marketing. The first step is to craft a detailed prompt chain that works for your brand, explaining your company, product, persona, voice, and any other important information. This can then be used to have the AI pull out key ideas from existing content (e.g. a webinar transcript), generate blog post ideas, produce an outline, and then write each section one at a time. A human should always fact-check and edit. This method can be used repeatedly to create high-quality, on-brand content with actual original thinking and thought leadership.
This post covers five useless activation milestones that are either too early or too late to be meaningful: sign-ups, completing onboarding, five unspecified actions, revenue increases, and conversion. These milestones do not accurately reflect user engagement or value realization. Instead of chasing them, focus on impactful milestones that predict user retention. Depending on the product, an impactful activation milestone could be when a user collects survey responses, gets a view on a created video, or listens to a significant portion of content.