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Report: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in talks to raise $100M for Worldcoin crypto startup
OpenAI LP Chief Executive Sam Altman is reportedly in advance talks to raise about $100 million in new funding for Worldcoin, an iris-scanning startup that seeks to build a globally distributed cryptocurrency. According to a report published by the Financial Times on Sunday, citing three people with knowledge of the deal, the company is currently in ...
ChatGPT rival Anthropic’s Claude can now read a novel in under a minute
OpenAI LP rival chatbot maker Anthropic said Thursday that it’s upgrading its own generative artificial intelligence with a much longer memory to take on the internet’s darlings ChatGPT and Google LLC’s Bard. Since its debut late last year, generative AI has caught the attention of users and businesses for its ability to hold humanlike conversations ...
Wingcopter raises $44M from EU to scale drone deliveries across the globe
Wingcopter GmBH, a German drone technology and services startup, today announced it has raised €40 million (about $44 million) in new funding from the European Investment Bank to expand production on its flagship drone hardware and take its delivery services into Europe and abroad. Founded in 2017, Wingcopter is the developer, manufacturer and operator of ...
European legislators vote to impose tighter controls on AI
European lawmakers today voted on amendments to the European Union’s “AI Act” draft legislation aimed at tightening regulations over generative artificial intelligence, including bans on biometric surveillance, predictive policing and expanded definitions of “high-risk AI.” Two legislative bodies joined to negotiate amended text for the AI Act, the International Market Committee and the Civil Liberties ...
Google rolls out tools for developers to build machine learning and AI into their products
Google LLC is rolling out a number of tools for developers to build machine learning and artificial intelligence into their applications using high-performance AI models and solutions. At Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, a number of new tools for TensorFlow were announced today. TensorFlow is a free, open-source software library for machine learning ...
Android Studio gets a new AI-powered coding assistant named Studio Bot
Google LLC today announced a number of new updates to Android Studio, the official integrated development environment for Android, including a new artificial intelligence-powered productivity assistant aimed at simplifying developers’ lives. The new AI assistant, named Studio Bot, was added into Android Studio Hedgehog, the canary build of Studio that incorporates experimental features. Studio Bot ...
Google introduces generative AI for Workspace and Cloud with Duet AI assistant
Google LLC has been moving swiftly to add artificial intelligence collaboration across its products, and today during its Google I/O developer conference, the company announced that people can collaborate with an AI assistant in Google Workspace. Google has embedded a generative AI called “Duet AI for Workspace” into Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets and Meet that ...
Google Cloud launches new generative AI features for Vertex AI
Google LLC’s cloud division today announced new features in its Vertex AI platform to help businesses use generative artificial intelligence in their own software by providing them with new tools to build and transform their own models. In today’s announcement at this year’s Google I/O, Google Cloud unveiled two major features, including a new foundation ...
Google unveils PaLM 2, its most powerful general-purpose AI yet, to power Bard chatbot
Artificial intelligence took the center stage today at Google LLC’s annual developer conference Google I/O with the unveiling of PaLM 2, the second iteration of the Pathways Language Model. It’s a transformer-based large language model artificial intelligence developed by Google Research that powers the company’s Bard AI chatbot and other products. PaLM 2 brings a number ...
Google and OpenAI struggling to keep up with open-source AI, senior engineer warns
Google LLC and ChatGPT developer OpenAI LP face increasing competition from open-source developers in the field of generative artificial intelligence, which may threaten to overcome them, a senior Google engineer warned in a leaked document. The engineer, identified as Luke Sernau by Bloomberg, published the document named “We Have No Moat and Neither Does OpenAI” ...