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Newly completed OpenAI restructuring gives Microsoft $135B stake
OpenAI today disclosed that it has completed its more than yearlong effort to change its organizational structure. The announcement doesn’t come as a complete surprise. A few days ago, SoftBank Group Corp. reportedly approved a $22.5 billion funding round for OpenAI it had originally announced in March. The approval was contingent on the completion of ...
CoreStory raises $32M to help companies modernize legacy code with AI
Artificial intelligence startup CoreStory Inc. today announced that it has closed a $32 million funding early-stage round led by Tribeca Venture Partners, NEA and SineWave Ventures. The Series A deal also drew contributions from several other backers. The group included Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Singaporean internet provider Singtel, Harrison Metal, Nimble Partners ...
Site reliability engineering startup Wild Moose launches with $7M in funding
Wild Moose Inc., a startup that helps developers fix issues in production applications, launched today with $7 million from investors. The seed round was led by iAngels with contributions from Y Combinator, F2 Venture Capital and Maverick Ventures. Wild Moose says the venture capital firms were joined by a group of angel investors. The participants ...
Australian regulator sues Microsoft over Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing notifications
Australia’s competition watchdog has sued Microsoft Corp. over the way the company rolled out artificial intelligence features to its productivity suite. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, or ACCC, filed the complaint today. The lawsuit focuses on the Personal and Family editions of Microsoft 365. The two plans include the Office application bundle and certain ...
AMD, HPE to build two new supercomputers for the Energy Department
The U.S. Energy Department has commissioned two new supercomputers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. silicon. Reuters reported today that the project is worth $1 billion. It will be funded with a combination of public and private sector funding. The U.S. government will reportedly share the machines’ processing capacity with the private sector consortium involved ...
Qualcomm debuts AI200, AI250 data center AI chips
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today introduced a pair of artificial intelligence chips designed for use in data centers. Shares of the company jumped more than 15% on the news at one point. Its stock is currently up about 11%. The two new chips, the AI200 and AI250, will be sold as part of accelerator cards that ...
New ‘company knowledge’ feature enables ChatGPT to search files in external services
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT with a new feature that enables the chatbot to analyze data users keep in third-party services. The capability, which is known simply as “company knowledge,” made its debut on Thursday. It’s included in ChatGPT’s Business, Enterprise and Edu subscription tiers. The feature can be activated using a new button below the ...
Dropbox debuts new search features, acquires AI startup Mobius Labs
Dropbox Inc. today introduced new artificial intelligence features that will make it easier for users to search the files they keep in its platform. The company also announced that it has acquired Mobius Labs GmbH, a venture-backed AI model developer. Dropbox will use the startup’s technology to enhance its platform’s search features. Both announcements focus ...
Meet Mico: Microsoft extends Copilot with new automation, collaboration features
Microsoft Corp. today released a new version of Copilot that can automate a broader range of tasks for users. The first enhancement to the artificial intelligence assistant is a feature called Groups. According to Microsoft, it will enable up to 32 users to participate in a Copilot chat session. A group planning a trip could use ...
OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage to build $15B+ data center campus in Wisconsin
OpenAI, Oracle Corp. and Vantage Data Centers LLC plan to build a Stargate campus in Wisconsin at a cost of more than $15 billion. The companies announced the project late Wednesday. At full capacity, the campus will host four data centers with nearly 1 gigawatt of computing capacity. One gigawatt of electricity is enough to ...