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OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s io Products in $6.5B all-stock deal
OpenAI today announced plans to buy io Products Inc., a consumer electronics startup led by former Apple Inc. Chief Design Officer Jony Ive. The deal reportedly values one-year-old io Products at $6.5 billion. OpenAI, which already has a 23% stake in the startup as a result of an earlier investment, will pay $5 billion worth ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticizes US curbs on AI chip sales to China
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang on has criticized the U.S. government’s restrictions on chip sales to China. Huang made the remarks at the Computex conference in Taipei Tuesday. During the event, Nvidia Corp. debuted a technology that makes it possible to move data between third-party chips using its NVLink interconnect. The company also ...
DataOps.live debuts new Dynamic Suite data toolkit for Snowflake
DataOps.live Inc. has introduced a new software toolkit that promises to help Snowflake Inc. customers manage their data more efficiently. The offering, which is known as Dynamic Suite, debuted today. London-based DataOps.live is backed by more than $27 million in funding. It provides a cloud-based platform that companies use to prepare their business data for ...
Report: Apple plans to make its large language models available to developers
Apple Inc. plans to let third-party developers build applications using its large language models, Bloomberg reported today. The company is expected to announce the initiative at its upcoming WWDC conference. Last year, Apple rolled out a suite of artificial intelligence features called Apple Intelligence to iPhones and Macs. The capabilities are powered by a series ...
New multimodal AI automation features coming to Google Workspace
Google LLC is adding new artificial intelligence features to Google Workspace that will help users write emails, turn slideshows into videos and perform other tasks. The capabilities debuted today at the company’s Google I/O developer event. The first set of AI enhancements will become available in Gmail. Gemini, the built-in AI assistant, can now generate ...
Glean launches upgraded Glean Agents toolkit with new development tools
Glean Technologies Inc. today moved its Glean Agents toolkit into general availability with new features designed to ease developers’ work. San Francisco-based Glean is backed by more than $600 million in funding. It provides an artificial intelligence platform that helps workers search for information across their company’s spreadsheets, the public web and other sources. It ...
Report: Circle could potentially be acquired by Coinbase or Ripple for $5B+
Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial Ltd. could potentially be sold for more than $5 billion, Fortune reported today. The publication cited four sources as saying that the company recently held “informal talks” about an acquisition. It’s believed that Coinbase could be bought by Coinbase Global Inc. or Ripple Labs Inc. The former company operates the ...
Workday adds seven new AI agents to its cloud platform
Workday Inc. today introduced a set of new artificial intelligence agents designed to automate repetitive tasks for users. Nasdaq-listed Workday counts more than 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers. It provides a cloud platform that human resources professionals use for payroll management, recruiting and related tasks. Workday also offers two other feature collections geared ...
Anthropic raises $2.5B in debt to finance growth investments
Large language model developer Anthropic PBC has secured $2.5 billion in debt financing, CNBC reported today. The loan is structured as a revolving credit facility. Standard debt financing deals require the borrower to pay back the funds in a fixed number of installments. A revolving credit facility, in contrast, has no such requirement. Additionally, the ...
AWS open-sources Strands Agents SDK to ease AI agent development
Amazon Web Services Inc. today released Strands Agents SDK, an open-source toolkit for developing artificial intelligence agents. The project’s code is available on GitHub. AWS originally created Strands Agents SDK to support the work of its internal development teams. There were already tools on the market for building AI agents, but the cloud giant found ...