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Ethereum completes major upgrade allowing withdrawal of staked tokens
The Ethereum blockchain completed its “Shapella” upgrade on Wednesday evening, allowing users who locked up Ether tokens to support the network to withdraw their cryptocurrency for the first time. The upgrade happened at 6:27 p.m. EDT when the Shanghai and Capella forks happened simultaneously — hence the merging of the names into Shapella – and ...
Creative.ai uses generative AI to help publishers produce video game ads
Austin-based Creative.ai is putting advances in generative artificial intelligence to use for mobile game publishers to help them create video advertisements. Generative AI has taken the internet by storm for its ability to create new content based on data used to train them. Prominent examples include OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, which can answer questions with human-like ...
Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, an open-source AI like ChatGPT for commercial use
Big-data and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. today released Dolly 2.0, the next iteration of the company’s open-source generative artificial intelligence model that has ChatGPT-like capabilities. Databricks released Dolly two weeks ago as a response to the multitude of large language model generative AIs on the market today that are mostly inaccessible to researchers ...
Sei Labs nabs $30M to develop high-speed blockchain for trading
Sei Labs, a contributor to the Sei blockchain focused on trading, said today that it has raised $30 million across two strategic funding rounds, according to a press release. Sei is a top-level, or Layer 1, blockchain designed to facilitate digital asset trading at large scale. It claims to be the fastest blockchain in the ...
AI-driven building monitoring startup Infogrid raises $90M
Infogrid, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to optimize building management, today announced that it has raised $90 million in new funding to build out its “smart building” platform that allows customers to monitor data on air quality, occupancy and energy consumption. The company’s platform gathers data from a large variety of internet of things ...
PagerDuty launches AIOps solution to reduce noise for incident response
Observability firm PagerDuty Inc. today announced it’s launching its AIOps solution into general availability to provide greater incident automation capabilities to DevOps and information technology teams by reducing noise and labor. Developers, information technology teams and site reliability engineers are often faced with the insurmountable task of monitoring apps and infrastructure in order to stay ...
CryptoGPT raises $10M led by DWF Labs for AI-focused blockchain
CryptoGPT, a zero-knowledge layer 2 blockchain that aims to help users make money from data for artificial intelligence use, today announced it has raised $10 million in new funding led by DWF Labs at a $250 million valuation. The company was founded in July 2022 with an aim to allow users to provide data for ...
MSI confirms breach after Money Message ransomware gang hackers claim responsibility
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd., the Taiwanese manufacturer of hardware for personal computers, confirmed earlier today that it suffered a breach of its systems after a new ransomware gang called “Money Message” claimed responsibility and revealed it stole source code from the company’s corporate network. MSI revealed that it had suffered a “cyberattack” in a press ...
Blockchain scaling startup Opside raises $4M to expand its ZK-rollup-as-a-service platform
Opside Network Inc., a blockchain infrastructure startup building “zero-knowledge” rollups, announced Thursday it raised $4 million in seed funding led by Web3.com Venture Capital to expand its blockchain scaling platform. ZK rollups are a type of technology that uses what are called zero-knowledge proofs to scale up blockchain networks by bundling transactions on a second-layer ...
Robotics data startup Roboto raises $4.8M to help developers save time using AI
Building robotics platforms is a difficult business and requires processing tremendous amounts of data, but there are very few tools that help developers in that task. Roboto Technologies Inc., a startup that emerged from stealth today with $4.8 million in funding, aims to use artificial intelligence to help robotics developers save time when developing robots. ...