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Tractable secures $65M for AI-powered visual assessments of car and property damage
Tractable Ltd., a startup that uses artificial intelligence-aided computer vision to determine the condition of cars and homes, said today that it has raised $65 million in late-stage funding to continue the growth of its product and business. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the Series E funding round with participation from existing investors Insight Partners ...
Microsoft builds on the cloud journey with Azure migration and cloud-native tools
To provide enterprise businesses the tools needed to give them a leg up when migrating to the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today announced two new Azure offerings during Microsoft Inspire 2023, “Azure Migrate and Modernize” and “Azure Innovate,” aimed at helping them on that journey. The company’s flagship program Azure Migration and Modernization Program was transformed ...
Microsoft announces AIM to deliver AI-powered business management tools for the cloud
Microsoft Corp. today announced a new program to assist customers in migrating their on-premises enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management apps into the cloud with artificial intelligence-powered insights. During the company’s Inspire 2023 conference, Microsoft revealed AIM, or “Accelerate, Innovate, Move,” a new program designed to help get businesses into the cloud and embrace ...
Actors say Hollywood wants to use AI to reproduce their likenesses forever
In another example of intelligence changing the nature of work, Hollywood actors brought up their own concerns about how studios intend to use the technology to use their likenesses in media forever without compensation. During a press conference Thursday, the actors said that they would be going on strike, Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of ...
Report: Meta plans to release its AI model for commercial use
Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model designed for commercial use, according to a report today from the Financial Times. Meta released its foundational large language model, known as Large Language Model Meta AI or LLaMA, as open source earlier this year for academics to use for research purposes ...
GitHub becomes passwordless with passkey support public beta
Popular developer code repository platform GitHub announced that it’s releasing passwordless authentication support in public beta, which will allow users to upgrade their security keys to use passkeys for login. Passkeys allow users to associate login information with individual devices or hardware keys that will enable users to eschew the use of passwords — which can ...
Microsoft reveals Chinese hackers breached US government emails
A Chinese-based hacking group has breached Microsoft email accounts belonging to two dozen government agencies, including the State Department, in the United States and Western Europe, Microsoft Corp. and U.S. national security officials revealed late Tuesday. The issue was discovered when U.S. cybersecurity experts reported to Microsoft a troubling vulnerability in the Microsoft 365 cloud ...
Prolific raises $32M to use people to train and test AI models
Prolific, a company that was founded to source verified data from human participants, said today that it has raised $32 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises to broaden its services to use human insights for training and improving artificial intelligence models. With the vast popularity of generative ...
Rocsys raises $36M to grow its AI-powered robotic electric vehicle charging solution
Rocsys, the provider of autonomous robotic chargers for electric vehicles, today announced it has raised $36 million in fresh funding to expand its charging solution to follow the growth in EVs and self-driving vehicles. The company said that SEB Greentech Venture Capital led the Series A funding round with participation from returning investor Forward.One, and ...
Anthropic releases upgraded Claude 2 AI chatbot with improved safety and coding ability
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence research startup that aims to build trustworthy AI models to rival OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, today released an upgraded version of its Claude chatbot with greatly improved safety and coding capabilities. Claude 2, an upgrade over Claude 1.3, is now available as a beta chat experience for users in the United States ...