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  • Aug 01, 2024

Marathon Digital Posts $200 Million Quarterly Loss Amid Bitcoin Mining Sector Woes

Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital Holdings reported a significant loss for the second quarter of this year, citing the impact of Bitcoin’s halving event on its operations as rivals posted similar results. The Fort Lauderdale, Florida, firm faced a substantial net loss and decreased Bitcoin production amid rising operational challenges, according to its latest quarterly figures. The Bitcoin halving event in April, which typically occurs approximately every four years, effectively slashed the reward...

  • Aug 01, 2024

Meet Flux: New Open-Source AI Image Generator Beats Midjourney, SD3 and Auraflow

Black Forest Labs—the team that helped develop the original Stable Diffusion—has launched Flux, the largest open-source text-to-image model to date. With a staggering 12 billion parameters, Flux can delivery visuals that rival those of Midjourney, and possibly beat any other model currently available—be it open or closed source. Flux comes in three variations: Flux Dev, which is open source with a non-commercial license for community development; Flux Schnell, which is a faster, distilled versio...

  • Aug 01, 2024

Google Ramps Up Fight Against AI Deepfakes in Search Results

In its latest bid to curb unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes, Google is taking new steps to remove and demote websites in searches that have been reported to contain illicit images, the technology and search giant said on Wednesday. An AI deepfake is media created using generative AI to produce videos, pictures, or audio clips that appear real. Many of these fake images depict celebrities like actress Scarlett Johansson, politicians like U.S. President Joe Biden, and, more insidiously, children...

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