Top 5 stories of the week: DALL-E uses, Nvidia's digital twins, Microsoft's AI inference, Intel detects deepfakes

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Since the release of DALL-E in public beta last month, several companies have begun integrating its use into various instances of the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape. Tome, a storytelling and ideation platform, announced this week that its interactive slides feature is now supported by DALL-E technology. Users can apply DALL-E to help them with presentation visuals to convey precisely what they envision. Tome says he is also working with GPT-3 to add more generative AI features to his platform in the near future.

Still on the generative AI spectrum, Microsoft unveiled this week that its reinforcement learning project Bonsai will be supported by d-Matrix DIMC technology. The goal is to speed up AI inference. For context, the use of transformer models by generative AI is imperative for its functionality, but is also a resource-intensive process. AI inference systems help predict and generate results from a model. Microsoft's decision to speed up the process will help increase efficiency and deployment of generative AI models.

Nvidia also made progress this week with the announcement of advances to improve its Omniverse, extending scientific applications in addition to high-performance computing systems. The company said this would allow digital twins to bring together data currently siled across various applications, models and user experiences. Dion Harris, Senior Product Manager for Accelerated Computing, said this is a step in the evolution of digital twins from passive modeling to active world shaping.

Meanwhile, Intel's news this week focused on shaping the world in a different way: eliminating deepfakes. The company has introduced a new tool dubbed FakeCatcher, which it claims has a 96% accuracy rate and works by analyzing the "blood flow" of an image or video and returns the results in real time. /p> Event

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Unsurprisingly, alongside the rise of new technologies such as deepfakes and new advances in AI, the need for increased security across all industries is growing. In a VentureBeat special report on zero-trust security published this week, our editors highlight how security is being tested and why a zero-trust approach is the future. Part of the in-depth review also looks at the ways some companies get zero trust wrong, including failing to understand what zero trust is and how to apply it correctly.

Here are more of our top 5 tech stories of the week:

New DALL-E integration adds generative AI for higher-level slides

Tome, announced interactive slide options supported by OpenAI's DALL-E technology. The company, which calls itself the "new storytelling format for work and big ideas," says it felt natural to add a generative AI dimension to decks.

"Incorporating this into the storytelling experience felt really natural," Tome CEO Keith Peiris told VentureBeat. "It was so much more powerful than looking for a stock photo or clip art - it's kind of giving us a first look...