[News] Google rolls out pay-per-use AI licensing program to publishers

Wer leistungsfähige Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) nutzen möchte, greift heute häufig auf Cloud-Dienste zurück. Die eigentliche Berechnung findet dabei auf den Servern des jeweiligen Anbieters statt. Das ist komfortabel und ermöglicht den Zugriff auf leistungsfähige Modelle. Gleichzeitig können dabei Daten die eigene IT-Infrastruktur verlassen. Eine Alternative sind lokal betriebene KI-Modelle. Sie laufen auf eigener Hardware und […]

Award‑winning Italian data journalist Jacopo Ottaviani recounts how he used generative AI to remake two of his seminal data‑visualisation projects in days rather than weeks. The 2012 prison‑death map “Patrie Galere,” originally assembled with BatchGeo, Open Refine and other ad‑hoc tools, was rebuilt in two days with Claude Opus and Sonnet, yielding an open‑source LeafletJS […]

Tavus has introduced Griffin, what the company calls the first “Human Interaction Model.” The AI holds video calls in real time, processing facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures. In a Tavus study, 48 percent of participants believed Griffin was a real person after a one-minute call. Previous systems maxed out at two percent. The […]

AI has become both cybersecurity’s biggest threat and its best defense. Attackers now use it to automate phishing, generate malicious code, and create deepfakes that can fool even advanced systems. Defenders are adopting the same technology to predict breaches, trace anomalies, and verify authenticity, but offensive methods still have a decisive advantage. This tension defines […]