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AR-glasses maker Rokid closes $112M round to expand metaverse products
Hangzhou, China-headquartered augmented reality glasses maker Rokid Inc. today announced that it has closed a strategic investment round led by NetDragon Websoft Holdings Ltd., bringing its Series C funding round to $112 million. According to a report from Bloomberg, the cash infusion from the newest investor NetDragon brings the valuation for Rokid to $1 billion. The company will ...
Proton Mail plans to tap blockchain tech for email encryption key verification
Proton AG, a Swiss-based securities services provider best known for its encrypted email product Proton Mail, is planning to roll out a new service that taps into blockchain technology as a way to help verify that users are contacting the people they believe they’re reaching out to. The new service, called Key Transparency, now in beta ...
YouTube lets Shorts creators use AI-powered tools to create music using famous artists’ styles
The creators of YouTube Shorts, very short video content on Google LLC’s video platform, can soon use tools powered by generative artificial intelligence to create music for their videos using the style of various famous artists. YouTube partnered with Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research laboratory, to use the advanced AI model Lyria to create ...
Google tests Notes feature that lets people add annotations to web search
Google LLC launched a new search experiment today called “Notes” that will let users add notes to web search listings in the Google app and also read what other users searching the same subject wrote. The company also announced a feature that will allow users to opt in to follow search results that they tend ...
Blockchain.com raises $110M in funding led by Kingsway Capital
Blockchain.com, a cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service, announced Tuesday that it secured $110 million in late-stage funding led by Kingsway Capital as crypto markets and investments continue to remain low after challenges The Series E strategic financing round was joined by numerous investors, including Baillie Gifford, Lakestar, LSVP, GV, Access Industries, Moore Capital, Prudence, Freeman Capital, Pledge ...
Microsoft debuts new AI tools for Windows developers and IT professionals
Microsoft Corp. today continued to advance its commitment to artificial intelligence in its Windows 11 operating system with an announcement during its Ignite 2023 conference unveiling updates to the developer experience and new features for its cloud-based Windows 365 service. With the latest Windows 11 update on Sept. 26, Microsoft released a raft of developer ...
Nvidia announces generative AI foundry on Azure and new foundational models
Pushing the envelope for generative artificial intelligence model training and deployment workflows, Nvidia Corp. today said that it’s bringing an AI foundry to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud that will allow any customer to roll their own chatbot, predictive or image-generating AI. The company announced the offering during Microsoft’s Ignite 2023 conference today, calling it a generative AI factory provided by ...
AI-powered Microsoft Copilot expands with new features and customization
Microsoft Corp. announced updates today at its Ignite 2023 conference to its AI-powered Copilot experience that runs everywhere users are, including the web, their personal computers and within their productivity apps to help them in their work and life. “Everyone will have their own Copilot,” Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella said this morning in his Ignite keynote. ...
Fnality raises $95M to tokenize money for major banks led by Goldman and BNP Paribas
London-based financial technology firm Fnality International Ltd., which builds blockchain systems that tokenize major currencies for central banks, said today that it has raised $95 million (£77.7m) in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas. The Series B funding round also attracted participation from DTCC, Euroclear, Nomura and WisdomTree. Existing investors from the company’s ...
Nvidia announces new HGX H200 computing platform, with advanced memory to handle AI workloads
Nvidia Corp. today announced the introduction of the HGX H200 computing platform, a new powerful system that features the upcoming H200 Tensor Core graphics processing unit based on its Hopper architecture, with advanced memory to handle the massive amounts of data needed for artificial intelligence and supercomputing workloads. The company announced the new platform (pictured) ...