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Pano AI raises $17M to expand artificial intelligence wildfire detection solution
Pano AI, a company that provides an artificial intelligence solution for the detection of wildfires, today said it has raised $17 million in new funding to expand its network and capabilities to help professionals deal with these natural disasters by helping catch them early. Pano builds a fully managed solution that uses a network of ...
Comedian Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing the developer of ChatGPT OpenAI LP and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc., claiming that the companies used copyrighted materials from their books when training their artificial intelligence chatbots. A pair of class action lawsuits have been filed by Silverman, as well as authors Chris Golden and ...
Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions
Lightning Labs, the developer of the Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling solution, announced Thursday the release of a set of tools to allow the developers to create artificial intelligence chatbots that can send and receive bitcoins. Chatbots such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT have taken the world by storm since its release in November 2022 with conversational ...
Mastercard launches new AI real-time anti-fraud tool in UK
Mastercard Inc. today announced that it has teamed up with nine British banks to combat consumer fraud using a new artificial intelligence solution that can detect scams in real-time and protect customers before money leaves the victim’s accounts. Nine of the biggest banks in the United Kingdom including Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Halifax, Bank of ...
Decentralized social network Bluesky announces $8M seed round and paid service
Decentralized social network Bluesky announced Wednesday that it has raised $8 million in a seed round this summer to support its mission of building decentralized services and an open ecosystem. The round was led by Neo, a community-led venture capital firm that has partners such as Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi and former director of product ...
App analytics company Mixpanel incorporates AI so companies can ‘chat with their data’
Mixpanel Inc., a web, mobile and app analytics platform, today announced it’s incorporating generative artificial intelligence so companies can “chat with their data” and get quicker insights into their customer’s experience. The company’s products provide data analysis for visitors to websites and apps in order to map user behavioral data in order to give marketing ...
Neko Health raises $65M for AI-powered preventative healthcare body scanner
Neko Health, a company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden that touts an artificial intelligence-powered body scanner and a team of medical doctors and technicians, today announced it has raised €60 million ($65 million) in a funding round to expand its services. The Series A round was led by the investment capital firm Lakestar, with participation from ...
Pokemon Go developer Niantic lays off 230 workers and closes LA Studio
The maker of the augmented reality “Pokemon Go” game, Niantic Inc., will lay off about a quarter of its workforce, or 230 employees, the company said in an email shared Thursday with employees by Chief Executive John Hanke. Niantic will also be closing its Los Angeles-based game studio, as well as sunsetting its AR basketball ...
Tabnine unveils AI-powered coding chatbot for software developers
Tabnine Ltd., the maker of an artificial intelligence code completion tool for developers, today unveiled an enterprise-grade code-centric chatbot powered by generative AI that will allow developers to write, update and understand their code in new ways. The new tool, named “Tabnine Chat,” uses Tabnine’s own in-house large language models and runs inside the company’s ...
Inflection, Runway and Stability get new funding as capital pours into generative AI startups
Venture capital continues to pour into the generative artificial intelligence industry as the popularity of chatbots and image-generating AI continues to grip enterprise interests. Today several generative AI startups received funding, including the chatbot startup Inflection AI Inc., the AI-powered video generator startup Runway AI Inc. and text-to-image generator Stability AI Ltd. Inflection AI, an ...