OpenAI might be pulling back on video generation, but Google is forging ahead with a major AI update to its Vids editing product. The company's latest video and audio models are now integrated with the tool, and you can choose from various controllable avatars to appear in generated videos. Your creations are also easier to share on YouTube now. Veo 3.1 is the biggest part of the Vids upgrade. Goo...
OpenAI might be pulling back on video generation, but Google is forging ahead with a major AI update to its Vids editing product. The company's latest video and audio models are now integrated with the tool, and you can choose from various controllable avatars to appear in generated videos. Your creations are also easier to share on YouTube now. Veo 3.1 is the biggest part of the Vids upgrade. Google first deployed this updated model in Gemini late last year , promising a substantial improvement in realism and consistency. While Google has pitched Veo as a tool for filmmakers, that's not how it positions Vids. Google suggests using the AI tools in Vids to create animated party flyers, business sizzle reels, or a video greeting card. You can use Vids for free, but you won't be able to generate very many videos without an AI subscription. Google Vids: Generate Videos with Veo 3.1. If you're not paying for any AI access on your account, you only get 10 video generations per month. AI Pro subscribers can get 50 videos, and those paying for Google's spendy AI Ultra plan (either personal or enterprise) get 1,000 videos per month. Like most other Veo implementations, the videos are eight seconds long and 720p resolution. Read full article Comments
For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. (Image credit: Krystal Ramirez for NPR)
For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. (Image credit: Krystal Ramirez for NPR)
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The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics — strong fundamentals and a valuation that looks inexpensive.
Apple has kept up with the decades, starting with gaming products and Macs to iPods, iPhones, and smartwatches. So can the first U.S. company to hit $1 trillion continue on its famous expansion journey?
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straga/iStock via Getty Images Kimbell Royalty Partners ( KRP ) up 3.7% in Thursday's trading as KeyBanc upgraded the owner of mineral and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties to Overweight from Sector Weight with a $17 price target, reflecting the bank's upwardly revised price forecast for oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids due to the belief that Middle East dislocations for...
straga/iStock via Getty Images Kimbell Royalty Partners ( KRP ) up 3.7% in Thursday's trading as KeyBanc upgraded the owner of mineral and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties to Overweight from Sector Weight with a $17 price target, reflecting the bank's upwardly revised price forecast for oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids due to the belief that Middle East dislocations for global crude and refined products will persist into the summer. Given the bank's updated commodity price deck, KeyBanc's Tim Rezvan now forecasts a near-term yield for Kimbell ( KRP ) units of 13.5%, well above his previous 10.5% yield forecast under his old mid-$60s oil deck, adding that nearly all the partnership's distributions in recent years have been tax-free reductions in basis. Rezvan said the oil price rally should ease concerns about broader Lower 48 activity declines affecting production, and a stronger oil price outlook may bring sellers to the table for bolt-on acquisitions. While most of Kimbell's ( KRP ) acquisitions since COVID-19 have been in the Permian Basin, management recently said it would have equal interest in assets in the Eagle Ford, Mid-Con, and Haynesville shale, which Rezvan said speaks to the company's pragmatism in acknowledging the Permian Basin is a challenging area, and that looking for deals in less competitive basins may drive higher accretion on M&A. Rezvan said his downgrade of Expand Energy ( EXE ) to Sector Weight from Overweight reflects "disappointment and confusion" over recent management changes and "murky" messaging. The analyst said the departure of CEO Nick Dell’Osso in February—just six months after CFO Mohit Singh left—was a surprise, as he brought strong financial and capital markets acumen to the role and a pragmatic view on cash returns and M&A, adding that messaging around Dell'Osso's departure that he didn’t want to relocate to Houston was "feeble and insufficient." Interim CEO Michael Wichterich has stepped in and has ...