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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 ...
DOJ crypto enforcement director calls for crackdown on illicit behavior by exchanges
The U.S. Department of Justice is increasing its efforts to stop illicit and criminal activities on crypto trading platforms, according to a report published by the Financial Times. Eun Young Choi, the director of the agency’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, said the DOJ intends to target crypto exchanges along with “mixers and tumblers,” which assist ...
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 ...