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Google DeepMind unveils tool to watermark and detect AI-generated images
Google DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab, is teaming up with Google Cloud to launch a watermarking tool for AI-generated images that will allow users to identify if artwork or graphics was produced by an AI model. In an announcement published Tuesday, DeepMind researchers unveiled SynthID, a beta tool that embeds a digital “watermark” ...
OpenZeppelin launches version 2.0 of its Defender end-to-end blockchain security platform
Blockchain security solutions provider OpenZeppelin today announced the launch of Defender 2.0, a developer security platform designed for mission-critical coding, auditing, deploying and monitoring blockchain-based applications. Defender acts as an operational platform that allows blockchain developers to build, deploy and oversee smart contracts, which are fundamental to decentralized applications. Smart contracts are a type of ...
Amazon acquires Fig to enhance the command line for developers
Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Fig, a startup that focuses on providing developers a better experience at the command line interface with tools such as autocomplete and collaboration. In the announcement today, Fig Chief Executive Brendan Falk said the company and its team would be joining Amazon subsidiary Amazon Web Services Inc. The terms of the ...
Google expands Vertex AI with new models and enterprise-ready tooling
Google LLC’s cloud unit Google Cloud is continuing its trajectory toward providing users broader access to generative artificial intelligence capabilities, allowing them to customize their own AI for intelligent apps using their own data with new enterprise-ready models and tools added to Vertex AI. Vertex AI is a constellation of cloud services that companies can ...
US Treasury unveils new proposed cryptocurrency tax guidelines for brokers
The U.S. Treasury Department released proposed regulations today that will address how cryptocurrency sales take place, part of growing efforts to regulate the trade of digital assets. The Treasury Department’s new rules will define what the government means by “broker” in the crypto industry and will include cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase Global Inc., the ...
Gupshup launches enhanced domain-specific ACE LLM adapted for industry use
Gupshup Inc., a conversational engagement platform for marketing and support automation, today announced the launch of a new family of domain-specific generative artificial intelligence large language models customized for functions such as customer support, marketing, commerce, human resources, information technology and enterprise business uses. The new domain-specific models, called ACE LLM, enable enterprise users to ...
Nodal Power raises $13M to use landfills to mine bitcoin
Nodal Power, a bitcoin mining startup that focuses on renewable energy sources using methane gas produced from landfills, announced Tuesday that it has raised $13 million in seed funding to build out its operations. The company uses methane produced by landfills to power generators as an alternative to “flaring,” a process used to burn off ...
Binance.US partners with Moonpay as payment alternative in return to USD market
The major cryptocurrency exchange Binance.US has announced a new partnership with the crypto payments firm Moon Pay Ltd. to open up U.S. dollar payments two months after the exchange said that it was moving to a “crypto-only” exchange structure. The exchange announced Tuesday that it will now use the U.S. dollar denominated stablecoin Tether, or USDT, as ...
VMware and Nvidia join forces to support generative AI infrastructure for the enterprise
VMware Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today announced an expanded partnership with a new solution that will enable enterprise businesses to build, train and deploy generative artificial intelligence models for applications customized with their own data that preserves security and privacy. The new offering, called VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia, is a full-stack platform that ...
IBM agrees to sell The Weather Company assets
International Business Machines Corp. announced today it agreed to the sale of its weather business, The Weather Company, including The Weather Channel mobile, Weather.com, Weather Underground and Storm Radar, to Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum. The deal follows earlier reports that IBM was exploring a potential sale of the assets in April. The agreement ...