Lead Stories worked with UB’s Media Forensic Lab, led by Siwei Lyu, to test audio on a campaign ad featuring Kamala Harris, with Lyu finding that the audio was likely AI-generated.
The Buffalo News reported that members of the Empire AI consortium joined UB leaders last week to tour possible sites on North Campus for the consortium’s new supercomputing center.
Nairametrics and TheTimes reported that New York is one of the top 10 states for AI-related job prospects because of recent state funding for the new Empire AI center at UB.
The Buffalo News reported on the Supply Chain Activation Network, which UB will lead as part of the $40 million federal “tech hub" that Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse were recently awarded.
The Buffalo News, New York Post and Niagara Gazette reported that Melanie Georger, a 26-year-old pilot who earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from UB, died last week in a plane crash near Youngstown.
WGRZ-TV reported on the first round of seed funding for four UB health projects that integrate AI, including a project led by Sabrina Casucci that is leveraging AI for clinical summaries in hospital care.
