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Foundry launches a “significant evolution” of Nuke - Nuke 17.0

The latest version of Foundry's compositing software brings native support for Gaussian Splats, and takes Nuke's new 3D system out of beta ...

Forget the STEM safety net. Peter Thiel warns AI is a bigger threat to technical roles than to creative thinkers

A new LinkedIn report supports some of the billionaire’s predictions, showing that job postings mentioning “storytellers” ...
Digital Production

Nuke 17.0 rewires 3D and adds Gaussian Splats

Nuke 17.0 adds native Gaussian Splats, USD 3D system and BigCat machine learning to Foundry’s compositing pipeline.
eLife

TAD boundary architecture and gene activity are uncoupled

A proposed function of TADs is to contribute to gene regulation by promoting chromatin interactions within a TAD and by suppressing interactions between TADs. Here, we directly probe the ...
BW Businessworld

Why Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 Is The AI Model That Matters

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 matches Opus 4.6 performance at 1/5th the cost. Released while the India AI Impact Summit is on, it is the important AI model ...
eLife

Adaptation of an herbivorous arthropod to green tea plants by overcoming catechin defenses

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States ...
ZDNet

Could you be an AI data trainer? How to prepare and what it pays

Organizations seek domain experts to train AI datasets. AI data training is becoming high-level, cognitive work. Pay rates for these specialists range very broadly. AI data trainers who ensure the ...
Forbes

The 8 Data Trends That Will Define 2026

Data is the oil that fuels the AI gold rush; machines need it to understand the world and help us solve its most pressing problems. But the way we use, collect and store data is evolving as quickly as ...
CNBC

The shutdown put jobs and inflation data on hold. Here's when it could be back — and what it might say

Economic data releases that have lagged during the government shutdown likely will take some time to get rolling again once Congress is back in business. Assuming the government reopens before the end ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Uber Buys Data Labeling Startup in Push to Sell AI Services

Uber Technologies Inc. has bought Belgian startup Segments.ai as the ride-hailing company seeks to expand its nascent data-labeling business. Bert De Brabandere and Otto Debals, the founders of Y ...
Business Insider

Elon Musk's xAI put a college student in charge of the team training Grok amid sweeping layoffs

XAI tapped a recent high school graduate to lead its data annotation team. Diego Pasini began leading the team in early September amid leadership changes and deep layoffs. Pasini's LinkedIn says he's ...
Observer

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Redefining Data Annotation—an Unglamorous But Vital Job in A.I.

Elon Musk’s A.I. firm is scaling back on “generalist A.I. tutors.” Allison Robbert/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Data annotation may not be the most glamorous job in Silicon Valley, but it’s indispensable ...