The Copyright Battle in AI: Tech Giants Take Turns in the 'Defendant's Chair'

Runway Raises $308 Million, Valued at Over $3 Billion

AI video startup Runway has raised $308 million in a new funding round led by private equity firm General Atlantic. The funding will help Runway expand its new media ecosystem. Sources say the New York-based Runway is now valued at over $3 billion following this latest round. In addition to General Atlantic, several other prominent firms participated, including SoftBank.

Guangxi High-Speed AI Traffic Model Deployed During Qingming Festival to Alleviate Congestion

During the Qingming Festival holiday, Guangxi province implemented an AI-powered traffic model on its highways to manage and alleviate traffic congestion.

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro API Pricing Announced, Sparking Interest with Increased Usage

Google recently announced the official pricing for its Gemini 2.5 Pro API. For input tokens up to 200,000, the base price is $1.25 per million input tokens, approximately 9.1 RMB; while the price for every million output tokens is $10, approximately 72.9 RMB. For longer texts exceeding 200,000 input tokens, the input price adjusts to $2.50 per million, approximately 18.2 RMB.

Bill Gates: AI Reshaping the Job Landscape, Three Professions Hard to Replace

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently offered insightful perspectives on AI's impact on work. Gates argues that work isn't an inherent human purpose, but a product of scarcity, fundamentally relying on human intelligence to provide diverse services. He envisions an AI revolution transforming traditional industries within a decade. In healthcare and education, AI systems are projected to handle over 80% of routine diagnoses, drug development, and knowledge dissemination. AI's precise algorithms and continuous operation enable it to not only...

Baidu's AI-powered 'Carrot Quick Run' Wins 2025 Edison Award for Best New Product in Autonomous Vehicles

Carnegie Mellon University's Innovative Framework AI2T: Enhancing Agent Development Efficiency and Empowering Multi-domain Applications

Carnegie Mellon University introduces AI2T, a groundbreaking framework designed to significantly improve the efficiency of intelligent agent development. AI2T empowers diverse applications across multiple domains by streamlining the development process and enhancing capabilities.

Microsoft CTO Predicts 95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated by 2030, Shifting Developer Roles

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott, has boldly predicted that by 2030, as much as 95% of programming code will be generated by artificial intelligence. However, he clarified that this doesn't signify the end of human involvement in software engineering. Scott explained that this doesn't mean AI is doing the software engineering work; the authors will still be human. It creates another layer of abstraction, as we transition from 'input masters' (programming languages) to 'prompt masters' (AI coordinators).

Midjourney V7 Officially Released: The Most Aesthetic and Coherent Model

April 4, 2025, San Francisco, California — The highly anticipated Midjourney V7 image model officially entered Alpha testing yesterday (April 3), as announced through official Midjourney channels. This marks another significant step for the AI research company in the field of image generation technology. Midjourney founder and CEO David Holtz stated that V7 is our most...

ByteDance Unveils DreamActor-M1: Replicating RunwayML Act Functionality and Pushing Animation Generation Boundaries

ByteDance recently announced its latest AI project, DreamActor-M1, a cutting-edge advancement in video generation technology. This model seamlessly replaces a person from a still image into a video scene using a reference video, generating dynamic imagery with fine-grained expressions, natural movements, and high-definition quality. This launch marks another breakthrough for ByteDance in generative AI and is seen as a challenge to existing animation generation tools (like RunwayML).

Novel Multimodal Framework ProteinDT Ushers in New Era of AI-Driven Protein Design

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming protein discovery and design in biotechnology. Recently, a collaborative team from UC Berkeley and Caltech developed ProteinDT, a novel multimodal framework leveraging text descriptions to aid in protein design. This innovative approach integrates protein sequence and structural information with a wealth of biological knowledge represented in text, opening a new chapter in protein design.