Symbioosi (Symbiosis). Images Matias Karsikas, shared with permission Matias Karsikas Merges Diverse Techniques to Reimagine Natural SurfacesJanuary 22, 2025CraftNatureJackie AndresListening to the material is a central principle in my work, Matias Karsikas says. Combining elements of glass, wood, and ceramics, the Helinski-based artist draw upon natures persistence despite human intervention.Karsikas botanical sculptures rest between artificial and organic. While bold hues of hand-blown glass neatly bloom into symmetrical petals and small bits of fired clay rhythmically protrude to resemble disc florets, fragments of untreated wood create a contrast that challenges the harmony between naturally occurring components of flora and fabricated representations of it.Suonkukka (Marsh Flower)These works do not directly depict figures or landscapes but instead draw inspiration from nature through textures and surfaces, Karsikas explains. For instance, more complex finishes of mottled, green huesas seen in pieces such as Jkl and Sammalare a result of the artist developing his own glazes to mimic surfaces similar to lichen and moss. His first major public work, Peukaloisen puutarha, rests on a Helsinki daycare center wall. Translating to Little Thumblings Garden, the installation includes an abundance of pickings such as embellished flowers, a berry cluster, and peas. Playing with scale is intended to evoke memories of childhood, Karsikas shares. It was a time when everything seemed bigger, more magical, and more exciting.Having recently concluded his first major exhibition at the Finnish Glass Museum, Karsikas is currently working on two forthcoming public artworks. Follow his Instagram for updates, and see his website for more work.Kultaa ja Kukkia (Gold and Flowers)Jkl (Lichen)Filigraanikukka (Filigree Flower)Sammal (Moss)Pivnsde ja Menninkinen (The Sunbeam and the Goblin)Peukaloisen puutarha (Little Thumblings Garden), photo by HAM / Sonja HyytiinenDetail of Peukaloisen puutarha (Little Thumblings Garden), photo by HAM / Sonja HyytiinenAmetistikukka (Amethyst Flower)Next article

Artificial Intelligence Newsletter Fox News AI Newsletter: Tech titans sound off on Trump's AI project Stay up to date on the latest AI technology advancements and learn about the challenges and opportunities AI presents By Fox News Staff Fox News Published January 22, 2025 12:08pm EST close AI execs defend Trump Stargate project: 'This is a very large investment that affects all of humanity' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son comment on President Trumps Stargate AI investment project on Special Report. Welcome to Fox News Artificial Intelligence newsletter with the latest AI technology advancements.IN TODAYS NEWSLETTER:- AI executives praise Trump's Stargate project: 'This is a very large investment that affects all of humanity'- Trump announces major AI infrastructure investment involving Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle- AI company Perplexity bids to merge with TikTok to avoid ban: report- Chinese tech firm shares robot training secrets with the world President Donald Trump announced a major AI infrastructure investment involving Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images)'FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY': The three tech CEOs who have joined forces in President Donald Trump's multi-billion dollar artificial intelligence infrastructure project defended the venture as an investment that "impacts all of humanity."POWERING UP: President Donald Trump unveiled a massive artificial intelligence infrastructure project from the private sector on the first full day of his second term in office on Tuesday. Humanoid robot training (AgiBot)TIME'S UP: Artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI has bid to merge with TikTok U.S., so the video sharing platform can avoid being banned in the country, according to a report.ROBOT TRAINING SECRETS: AgiBot, a pioneering Chinese artificial intelligence and robotics company, has introduced a transformative open-source dataset called AgiBot World Alpha. Network of mesh lines forming brains of different sizes in dark background with red and yellow glowing particles. Illustration of the concept of artificial intelligence, ideas and creativity FOLLOW FOX NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIASIGN UP FOR OUR OTHER NEWSLETTERSDOWNLOAD OUR APPSWATCH FOX NEWS ONLINEFox News GoSTREAM FOX NATIONFox NationStay up to date on the latest AI technology advancements and learn about the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for the future with Fox Newshere. This article was written by Fox News staff.

Androm - stock.adobe.comNewsCMA adds ex-Amazon UK boss to board as provisional judgement in cloud probe nearsThe former UK boss of Amazon UK has joined the CMA as its interim chairByCaroline Donnelly,Datacentre Editor Published: 22 Jan 2025 16:45 The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has appointed former Amazon UK boss, Doug Gurr, to chair its board on an interim basis, as the deadline for the organisation to publish the provisional findings from its long-running investigation into the UK cloud market nears.The UK competition watchdog confirmed on Tuesday 21 January 2024 that Gurr will replace current CMA chair Marcus Bokkerink, who has held the five-year position since 2022.The reasons why Bokkerink has tendered his resignation for the role two years before the expected end of his tenure are unclear, but his departure comes at a time when the UK government is pushing regulators to take a more pro-growth approach to the work they do.To this point, the CMA announcement about Gurrs appointment states the news comes hot on the heels of a meeting between business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, and the countrys leading regulators who were asked to tear down the barriers hindering business and refocus their efforts on promoting growth.In a statement announcing Gurrs appointment, Reynolds confirmed work is already underway to recruit a permanent replacement for Bokkerink.The government has a clear plan for change to boost growth for business and communities across the UK, said Reynolds.As weve set out, we want to see regulators including the CMA supercharging the economy with pro-business decisions that will drive prosperity and growth, putting more money in peoples pockets.Gurr is the current director of the National History Museum and until November 2020 served as country manager of online retail giant Amazon UK.I am honoured to be asked to chair the CMA at this crucial time, said Gurr in a statement. I look forward to working with the strong leadership team to help deliver business investment and economic growth in a framework of effective competition and consumer protection.Gurrs appointment comes days before the CMA is expected to release details of the provisional outcome of its long-running investigation into the cloud infrastructure services market, which includes scrutiny of whether Amazons cloud arm has indulged in anti-competitive behaviour.However, while Gurr is joining the CMA as chair, it is know that the team overseeing the cloud infrastructure services market probe operates separately to the organisations board.In response to the news of Gurrs appointment, Nicky Stewart, senior adviser to the Open Cloud Coalition, said that with the CMAs cloud market investigation entering a critical phase, it is important there is no deviation in the regulators commitment creating a more competitive cloud market.We urge the regulator to stay the course and take decisive action to create a fairer, more competitive cloud market that benefits businesses, consumers and the wider digital economy, said Stewart.The cloud industry can only flourish when there is a level-playing field, and as outlined in our position paper, meaningful intervention is essential to unlocking innovation and investment across the sector.Computer Weekly contacted the CMA for a statement about whether Gurrs appointment might leave the organisation open to conflict of interest accusations, but no public comment was forthcoming.Read more about the CMA investigation into the cloud services marketThe CMA published the summary hearings from Microsoft, AWS and Google this week, which revealed all three had quite a lot to say on the Redmond software giants cloud licensing practices.After regulator Ofcom raised red flags about the anti-competitive behaviour of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, the UK cloud market was referred to the Competition and Markets Authority heres why.In The Current Issue:Can the UK government achieve its ambition to become an AI powerhouse?A guide to DORA complianceDownload Current IssueData engineering - Alteryx: Investing for scale with an eye on value CW Developer NetworkData engineering - Nutanix: All engineering starts with infrastructure CW Developer NetworkView All Blogs

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BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 19: Ricarda Piepenhagen, an activist who suffers from long Covid symptoms ... [+] including cardiovascular and neurological issues, lays photographs of people afflicted by myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), on some of 400 cots set up outside the Reichstag, seat of the Bundestag, in a public protest effort to demand more government-funded research as the Chancellery is seen behind on January 19, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Chronic fatigue syndrome is also a condition common among people suffering serious effects of long-Covid. The Bundestag is scheduled to debate the issue later today. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Getty ImagesWomen are at a higher risk of developing long Covid than men. However, men are more likely to suffer from severe Covid-19 infections and have higher mortality rates, according to a new JAMA study. More specifically, women are 1.31 times more likely to have long Covid than their male counterparts.A review of the literature combined with our data suggests that differences in hormonal levels may partially explain the higher prevalence of long Covid in females younger than 55 years. An attenuation in the risk ratio of long Covid for females aged 18 to 39 years may be explained by most pregnant individuals belonging to this age category, the authors explained in the study.Our data align with published data on post-viral myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia, which are disorders that are female predominant and have known alterations in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis, they added. Multiple studies have demonstrated that chronic conditions, such as autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, ME/CFS, and Alzheimer's disease, are more prevalent in females compared with males.Globally, more than 700 million people have been infected by the coronavirus since late 2019, and as of early 2025, that resulted in at least seven million deaths. According to the Lancet, by March 2023, more than 65 million people had been diagnosed with long Covid. But several experts argue that long Covid is still under-diagnosed among the masses.A survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that almost twice as many women have long Covid with almost 7% reporting long Covid symptoms, compared with 4% of men. A 2021 study also revealed that a higher risk of developing long Covid was associated with being a woman, along with other risk factors like smoking and older age. Another study's findings claimed that college-educated men had the lowest prevalence of long Covid but women without college educations reported the highest prevalence.MORE FOR YOUTo delve deeper into how gender could potentially influence people's long Covid risks, researchers studied the data of over 12,000 adults who had tested positive for Covid-19. Out of that, 73% were women. They observed that women from the Omicron and pre-Omicron groups had a significantly higher risk of long Covid than men.The clinical and public health implications in terms of sex-based differences in risk of long Covid, especially based on age, pregnancy, and menopausal status, are substantial. It is important to disentangle the role of aging, hormones, inflammatory response, and comorbidities underlying these differential long COVID risk profiles and to identify which groups may benefit from specific treatments, the researchers concluded.Sex steroid-based therapies might be suggested to mitigate long COVID symptoms in females, as has already been suggested for acute COVID-19 in men, they emphasized in the study. "Based on this studys findings, we believe that the sex-based disparity in long-term illness burden due to long COVID may increase in addition to existing postviral sequelae, for example, Epstein-Barr virus, ME/CFS, chronic Lyme disease, post Ebola syndrome."

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesBy Billy PerrigoJanuary 22, 2025 12:50 PM ESTPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) in an early signal that his Administration would embrace the technology.The plans, which predate the Trump Administration and involve no U.S. government funds, would result in the construction of large datacenters on U.S. soil containing thousands of advanced computer chips required to train new AI systems.Trump cast his support for the venture in part as a matter of national competitiveness. We want to keep it in this country; Chinas a competitor, Trump said of AI. Im going to help a lot through emergency declarations we have an emergency, we have to get this stuff built.The message echoed recent talking points by the heads of AI companies like Sam Altman of OpenAI, who flanked him during the White House announcement. Altman has argued more vocally in recent months that the U.S. must race to build the energy and datacenter infrastructure in order to create powerful AI before China.The intent is to build datacenters on American soil, so that the U.S. retains sovereignty over the AI modelsOpenAI and Oracle have been working on building out datacenter capacity in the United States since long before Trumps inauguration, and construction is reportedly already underway on some of the facilities connected to Stargate. The new Presidents blessing, however, is a win both for OpenAI which like all tech companies has attempted to position itself in Trumps favor and for Trump himself, who has seized on AI as a means for strengthening the U.S. economy and achieving dominance over China.Stargate also appears to mark an end to OpenAIs exclusive cloud computing partnership with Microsoft, meaning the startup is now free to train its models with other providers. In return for early investment, OpenAI had agreed to train its AIs only on Microsofts systems. But the startup has chafed in the past at what insiders felt was Microsofts inability to supply it with enough computing power, according to reports. Microsoft remains a large investor in OpenAI, and gains a share of its revenue.What could Stargate mean?The goal behind Stargate is to create the infrastructure required to build even more powerful AI systems systems that could perform most economically valuable tasks better and faster than humans could, or that could make new scientific discoveries. Many AI investors and CEOs believe this technology, sometimes referred to as artificial general intelligence, is attainable within the next five years or fewer.But to get there, those AIs need to first be trained. This presents a problem, because the bigger an AI you want to train, the more interlinked chips you need in a datacenter, and the larger the electricity capacity of that datacenter needs to be. Currently, experts say, AIs performance is bottlenecked by these two factors, especially power capacity.Stargate would mean not only the construction of new datacenters to house the latest chips, but also the construction of new energy infrastructure that could supply those datacenters with the gargantuan amount of power needed for an AI training run. Those runs can last for months, with chips running day and night to mold a neural network based on connections within a vast corpus of data.They have to produce a lot of electricity, and well make it possible for them to get that production done very easily, at their own plants if they want at the AI plant they will build their own energy generation and that will be incredible, Trump said Tuesday. Its technology and artificial intelligence, all made in the USA.Much of this electricity is likely to come from fossil fuels. Trump has committed to unleash oil and gas drilling, and has moved to block the grids transition to renewable energy. To cope with the rising demand by U.S. data centers for electricity, utilities companies have delayed retiring coal-fired power plants and have added new gas plants.Will Stargate happen?It already is. Construction has reportedly already begun on a datacenter in Abilene, Texas, that will house part of the Stargate project. But not all of the $500 billion pledged for the joint venture is likely to be available all at once. Of that figure, OpenAI said in a statement that Stargate would begin deploying only a fifth, $100 billion, immediately. The rest will be deployed over the next four years.Stargates announcement led to a rare moment of disharmony between Trump and his most powerful political cheerleader, Elon Musk. They dont actually have the money, Musk posted on X shortly after the announcement. SoftBank has well under $10 [billion] secured. I have that on good authority.Musk has a long and fractious history with Altman. The pair co-founded OpenAI together, but Musk left in 2019 after reportedly mounting a failed bid to become CEO; he now owns the rival AI company xAI and is suing Altman, accusing him of reneging on OpenAIs founding principles. Altman denied Musks allegations on X, inviting him to come to visit the first site already under construction. This is great for the country. I realize what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies, but in your new role I hope you'll mostly put first, he wrote. He had earlier written: I genuinely respect your accomplishments and think you are the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time. An OpenAI spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.Regardless of the size of Stargates checking account, it would be foolish to bet against a massive surge in datacenter construction on U.S. soil. Tech companies are already investing billions into the construction of facilities where they can train their next AI systems. And with Trump in the oval office, it appears they have succeeded in convincing the highest levels of government that building more AI infrastructure is an urgent national security priority. We wouldnt be able to do this without you Mr. President, Altman said at the White House on Tuesday, addressing Trump. And Im thrilled that we get to.More Must-Reads from TIMEL.A. Fires Show Reality of 1.5C of WarmingHome Losses From L.A. Fires Hasten An Uninsurable FutureThe Women Refusing to Participate in Trumps EconomyBad Bunny On Heartbreak and New AlbumHow to Dress Warmly for Cold WeatherWere Lucky to Have Been Alive in the Age of David LynchThe Motivational Trick That Makes You Exercise HarderColumn: No One Won The War in GazaWrite to Billy Perrigo at billy.perrigo@time.com

TL;DR: The awards season frontrunner The Brutalist faces intense backlash over using AI tools during post-production. The movie's director, Brady Corbet, responded to the criticism, stating that the crew only used AI to refine the authenticity of a few Hungarian dialogues in the film and that it didn't replace the actors' hard work. The AI tools in question come from the Ukranian company Respeecher. Corbet told The Hollywood Reporter that they only used the tools in post-production to enhance the accuracy of specific Hungarian vowel and letter sounds spoken by Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones. He maintains that the AI editing did not replace their months of work perfecting their accents with a dialect coach.The film's editor, Dvid Jancs, who first revealed the AI usage in an interview with Red Shark News, explained that as a native Hungarian speaker, he recognized how challenging those nuanced sounds can be for non-native actors. Since the film had a tight budget of around $10 million, they opted to use AI to make targeted adjustments at scale rather than manually editing each sound they figured could be improved. Jancs also insisted that the work done in post was almost identical to traditional dialogue editing techniques, except aided by technology instead of human editors."We were very careful about keeping their performances. It's mainly just replacing letters here and there," said Jancs. "You can do this in ProTools yourself, but we had so much dialogue in Hungarian that we really needed to speed up the process otherwise we'd still be in post."Jancs also revealed that the production team used some AI in background architectural renderings. Corbet clarified that they did not use it to create or render any full building designs; they only used images made to look like dated digital renders.Critics have praised Brody's and Jones's acting performances in the WWII refugee drama. However, the mere notion of employing AI has stoked controversy, with some arguing it should disqualify the film from awards. Besides The Brutalist, other hit films from last year, including Civil War, Alien: Romulus, and Furiosa have also faced criticism for using AI. After the 2023 writers and actors strike, such sentiments reached a boiling point that demanded reassurances that technology wouldn't replace human creativity. // Related StoriesThe Brutalist is not the first film to use Respeecher. The AI voice cloning technology became popular after adding the voice of James Earl Jones to Disney's Obi-Wan Kenobi series.

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