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CommerceHub acquires AI startup Cadeera and rebrands to Rithum
Online retail software provider CommerceHub Inc. today announced that it has acquired U.K.-based startup Cadeera to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities. The company disclosed the deal in conjunction with a major rebrand. CommerceHub, which has operated under its current name for more than two decades, will be known as Rithum Holdings Inc. going forward. Rithum ...
Cohere adds support for custom data connectors to its flagship LLM
Cohere Inc., a well-funded artificial intelligence startup, today introduced a connector development tool for its flagship Command large language model. Customers can use the tool to build integrations that enable Command to retrieve data from external applications. That data, in turn, allows the model to answer user questions it otherwise wouldn’t be capable of processing. ...
Nvidia, AMD back $56.5M round for Essential AI Labs, led by Transformer architecture co-inventors
Essential AI Labs Inc., a startup led by two co-inventors of the foundational Transformer neural network architecture, today announced that it has raised $56.5 million from a group of prominent backers. March Capital led the Series A investment with contributions from Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Google LLC. The round also included the ...
BlackBerry appoints John Giamatteo CEO and scraps IPO plans for IoT business
BlackBerry Ltd. today announced that it has appointed John Giamatteo, the president of its cybersecurity business, as chief executive officer. The software maker announced the leadership change in conjunction with an update to a previously announced restructuring initiative. The initiative was set to see it spin off its internet of things business into a publicly ...
New York state, IBM, Micron and others partner on cutting-edge $10B chip research lab
The state of New York, IBM Corp., Micron Technology Inc. and other organizations are teaming up to build a $10 billion semiconductor research lab in Albany. The centerpiece of the facility will be a truck-sized machine called the Twinscan EXE:5200. Made by ASML Holding NV, the system is expected to become a cornerstone of the ...
Google makes its AI-powered NotebookLM note-taking application broadly available
Google LLC today made NotebookLM, a note-taking application powered by its new Gemini Pro language model, available to users in the U.S. who are at least 18 years old. The application made its debut at the company’s Google I/O event in May under the name Project Tailwind. In June, the search giant rebranded it to ...
Microsoft-OpenAI partnership draws antitrust scrutiny in the UK and US
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has started gathering information for a potential antitrust probe into Microsoft Corp.’s partnership with OpenAI. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, disclosed the move today. Shortly after the announcement, Bloomberg reported that the U.S Federal Trade Commission is also examining the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI. The FTC’s inquiry is ...
Google draws criticism for demo video of its new Gemini large language model
Google LLC has drawn criticism for a demo video of Gemini, the advanced large language model it debuted on Wednesday. The search giant is positioning Gemini as an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new model has three editions, called Nano, Pro and Ultra, that vary in sophistication. Google began rolling out the Pro version of Gemini ...
Rhythms nabs $26M for its LLM-powered productivity platform
Rhythms, a startup building a productivity platform powered by large language models, today launched from stealth mode with $26 million in seed funding. Greenoaks and Madrona Venture Group jointly led the investment. They were joined by Accel, Cercano and Founders’ Co-op. All five investment firms previously backed Ally Technologies Inc., a productivity startup that Rhymes ...
Microsoft: Russian disinformation campaign used celebrity videos bought via Cameo
Microsoft Corp. has uncovered a Russian disinformation campaign that made use of celebrity clips commissioned through the Cameo video sharing website. The company detailed its findings today in the latest edition of its biannual report on Russian digital threats. The report is produced by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center, which tracks nation-backed hacking and influence campaigns. ...