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Build AI-powered employee onboarding agents with Amazon Quick

Enterprises often struggle to onboard new team members at scale. Human resources (HR) teams spend time on manual tasks that delay productivity, such as processing documents to answering repeated questions about benefits and policies. For organizations with many new hires, these steps make it harder to keep onboarding consistent and compliant. Organizations lose substantial amounts …

AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy

AI is consuming staggering amounts of energy—already over 10% of U.S. electricity—and the demand is only accelerating. Now, researchers have unveiled a radically more efficient approach that could slash AI energy use by up to 100× while actually improving accuracy. By combining neural networks with human-like symbolic reasoning, their system helps robots think more logically …

It is still possible to achieve more natural cinematic realism for videos with open source models vs proprietary models with even basic workflows | Z-Image-Turbo and LTX 2.3

Overview Z-Image Turbo and LTX 2.3 img2vid combo (also with Flux 2 Klein 9B for additional controls) are actually really strong together for maintaining natural looking styles that feel far more alive than even some shots I would get with Seedance 2.0. Initial Frames Z-Image Turbo after all these months, I find to still be …

Model Drop | ZIT + LTX 2.3 + Music Video | Arca Gidan contest

The idea came from something I’m pretty sure most of us live every single day: you wake up, check your phone, and another model has dropped. Open source, closed source, whatever source — faster, smarter, more creative, more powerful. And before you’ve even had coffee, you’re already reworking a ComfyUI workflow that was perfectly fine …

AI companions can comfort lonely users but may deepen distress over time

AI companions are always available, never judge, never tire and never demand anything in return. If someone is struggling with loneliness, this frictionlessness can seem profoundly appealing. However, new research shows that in the long term, seeking emotional support from an AI companion can pull users away from important human relationships.