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Business travel startup Hotel Engine reels in $140M at $2.1B valuation
Hotel Engine Inc., the operator of a hotel booking platform for business travelers, today announced that it has closed a $140 million Series C funding round. Private equity firm Permira led the investment at a $2.1 billion valuation. That’s up from the $1.3 billion Hotel Engine was worth following its previous raise in November 2021. ...
Google to roll out features for detecting AI-generated images across several services
Google LLC plans to implement C2PA, a technology for verifying the authenticity of media files, in its search engine and advertising systems. The company detailed the initiative today. The C2PA, or Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, is an industry group that was formed in 2021 by Intel Corp., Apple Inc. and a number of ...
Email security startup EasyDMARC closes $20M funding round
EasyDMARC Inc., a startup helping companies implement the DMARC email security standard, today announced that it has raised $20 million in an early-stage funding round. New York-based venture capital firm Radian Capital led the Series A investment. Hackers often attempt to disguise malicious emails by making it appear as if they were sent from a ...
Supermaven nabs $12M for its AI coding assistant
Supermaven Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence coding assistant of the same name, today announced that it has closed a $12 million funding round led by Bessemer. The investment also included contributions from several angel investors. The group included OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, Perplexity AI Inc. co-founder Denis Yarats and Intercom Inc. co-founder Eoghan ...
Slack introduces new AI agents and automation workflows
Slack is updating its collaboration platform with a set of artificial intelligence features designed to save time for knowledge workers. The Salesforce.com Inc. unit detailed the enhancements today ahead of its parent company’s Dreamforce 2024 product event, which will kick off on Tuesday. The first addition to Slack’s feature set is a collection of AI ...
Meta to resume training AI models on UK users’ Facebook and Instagram posts
Meta Platforms Inc. plans to resume its use of U.K. adults’ Facebook and Instagram posts in artificial intelligence training projects. The company disclosed the decision today. The move comes about three months after Meta paused the practice over privacy concerns. Meta develops the popular Llama series of open-source large language models. The largest model in ...
Google debuts new accuracy-optimized DataGemma LLM series
Google LLC has developed a series of language models that can answer questions about numerical facts more accurately than earlier algorithms. The DataGemma series, as the model lineup is called, debuted on Thursday. Google has made the source code for the algorithms available on Hugging Face. DataGemma is optimized to field user questions about statistical ...
CoreWeave reportedly planning secondary sale at $23B valuation
CoreWeave Inc. is negotiating a secondary sale will that enable investors to offload $400 million to $500 million worth of shares, Bloomberg reported today. The paper’s sources said that the deal is set to value CoreWeave, which operates a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, at $23 billion. That’s up from $19.1 billion in ...
Ireland opens privacy probe into Google’s PaLM 2 language model
Ireland’s privacy regulator has opened a probe into Google LLC over its PaLM 2 large language model. The Data Protection Commission, or DPC, announced the move today. Officials will review whether PaLM 2 was built in a manner compliant with the European Union’s GDPR data privacy regulation. The DPC is responsible for investigating Google’s GDPR ...
OpenAI’s new o1 large language model can decode scrambled text and ace math exams
OpenAI today launched a new large language model series, o1, that can decode scrambled text, answer science questions with better accuracy than PhD holders and perform other complex tasks. The LLM series better-known by it code name Strawberry, comprises two models on launch: o1-preview and o1-mini. The former is the more capable of the two, ...