When AI imagines cities, smaller communities can disappear

When AI imagines cities, smaller communities can disappear

Jungwhan Kim. Credit: Max Esterhuizen for Virginia Tech When College of Natural Resources and Environment geospatial data scientist Junghwan Kim asked an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator to create a picture of Blacksburg, the result wasn’t quite right. “The image looked generic,” Kim said. “It didn’t capture what makes Blacksburg unique.” But when he asked…

With Sora shuttered, smaller video AI apps surge into the spotlight

With Sora shuttered, smaller video AI apps surge into the spotlight

A week after OpenAI said it would shutter its artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, rival tools like Kling AI and RunwayML are already gaining ground. Kling AI, a video generator app owned by China’s Kuaishou Technology, saw global weekly active users jump 4% to an average of 2.6 million last week from the prior week,…

Calix’s 2026 AI Strategy Focuses on Smaller Broadband Providers

Calix’s 2026 AI Strategy Focuses on Smaller Broadband Providers

It is easy to misunderstand Calix if you start by comparing it to consumer-facing giants like Comcast or Cox Communications. Those companies sell broadband directly to end users nationwide. Calix primarily serves broadband service providers behind the scenes. Many of them are regional operators, cooperatives, municipalities, and smaller-market ISPs that lack deep benches of data…

Chinese robotaxi firm Pony AI sees smaller 2025 loss By Investing.com

Chinese robotaxi firm Pony AI sees smaller 2025 loss By Investing.com

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