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Anthropic raises $450M to build powerful but trustworthy AI systems
Artificial intelligence research startup Anthropic revealed today that it has raised $450 million in new funding led by Spark Capital to drive its continued work towards building helpful and trustworthy AI systems, including its Claude AI assistant that can perform conversational and text processing tasks. Launched in 2020, Anthropic has risen to become a well-known ...
Microsoft boosts Windows developer productivity with Dev Home
Windows 11 developers are getting a productivity enhancement today from Microsoft Corp. with a new feature announced at Microsoft Build 2023 called Dev Home: an open-source dashboard with a set of tools to act as a one-stop development companion. Microsoft says Dev Home will help streamline developer workflows by making it easy to connect tools ...
Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot is coming to Windows 11
Windows 11 customers will soon get access to an artificial intelligence companion that can understand them and interact with their applications using OpenAI LP’s technology with Windows Copilot, Microsoft Corp. announced today at its Build developer conference. With Windows Copilot, users gain access to a generative AI that can understand natural language conversations and provide ...
Report: Digital assets firm HashKey looks to raise $200M at $1B valuation
Digital asset financial services company HashKey Group is in talks with investors to raise between $100 million and $200 million in funding as the company looks to take advantage of Hong Kong’s emerging role as a crypto hub, according to a Bloomberg report today. Although the details of the talks weren’t disclosed, the company is in ...
1Password launches Passage to bring passkey support to apps and websites
Password management software provider 1Password today released a new service Passage by 1Password that allows businesses to build passkey authentication directly into their own apps and websites. Passkeys are a type of passwordless authentication that relies on a user’s device, rather than a username and password combination, in order to provide access to online services. ...
UK Treasury report asks government to regulate crypto as gambling
Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum should be regulated as gambling, according to a committee of lawmakers in the United Kingdom who claimed that the assets “pose significant risks to consumers.” The U.K. Treasury Select Committee released a report on Wednesday noting that tokens such as bitcoin are unbacked by any assets and therefore have ...
Ripple acquires Metaco for $250M to diversify services into crypto custody
Blockchain technology company Ripple Labs Inc. has bought the Switzerland-based digital asset custody and tokenization firm Metaco SA for $250 million, the company said in an announcement today. Metaco provides a platform for cryptocurrency and digital asset custody infrastructure for institutions to safely store tokens. Its primary service is Harmonize, which is an enterprise-grade offering designed ...
Stability AI releases StableStudio to become an open-source platform for AI
Stability AI Ltd. announced today that it’s going all-in on open source with the release of StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio, the company’s premier interface for its art-generating artificial intelligence Stable Diffusion model. After its release, DreamStudio quickly became a one-stop-shop for accessing all of Stability AI’s text-to-image generating capabilities without the need for users ...
Hippocratic AI launches with $50M to build a chatbot for healthcare
There’s a newcomer artificial intelligence company on the block that wants to introduce the power of a conversational chatbot for the healthcare industry: Hippocratic AI, which just launched with $50 million in funding co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz. Founded by a group of physicians, hospital administrators, Medicare professionals and medical researchers, Hippocratic is named ...
Zoom partners with Anthropic to add its Claude chatbot to its platform
With the increasing proliferation of generative artificial intelligence in the market, videoconferencing and chat platform Zoom Communications Inc. partnered with Anthropic today to bring its Claude chatbot into Zoom’s product suite. Zoom intends to integrate the AI assistant with its products starting with its Zoom Contact Center, a combined unified communications and contact center services offering ...