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Mozilla launches Mozilla.ai with $30M in funding to focus on ‘trustworthy AI’
Mozilla Corp., the company behind the Firefox browser, today announced that it’s launching a new startup focused on building “trustworthy” artificial intelligence called Mozilla.ai with $30 million in funding. The newest wave of AI has been changing the face of the internet with an explosion of popularity in what artificial intelligence can do. Examples include ...
Microsoft and Adobe introduce AI image generator tools as competition heats up
Artificial intelligence art generators have become ever more popular with the introduction of OpenAI LP’s DALL-E and Midjourney, which take text prompts and turn them into beautiful, often surreal artwork — and today, two major companies joined the party. Microsoft Corp. announced today that it’s bringing the power of AI image generation, powered by the ...
Nvidia builds out its Omniverse ecosystem to support the automotive metaverse
Nvidia Corp.’s hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration and simulation platform Omniverse got a number of improvements and partnerships today during its virtual GTC conference to support automotive manufacturers and the industrial metaverse. Nvidia Omniverse acts as a “metaverse” simulation platform for developers, artists and engineers to visualize and generate 3D models of projects. They act and ...
Nvidia brings on new advances in robotics and computer vision AI
Nvidia Corp. is expanding its tools for robotics and the artificial intelligence that power them through improvements to the platforms that developers and engineers use to train and deploy autonomous machines in factories, offices and cities. At GTC 2023, the company’s virtual developer conference starting today, Nvidia said that Omniverse Cloud would be hosted on ...
Wingtra raises $22M as its survey drones soar to new heights
Wingtra AG, a leading manufacturer of fixed-wing drones capable of vertical takeoff and landing, today announced that it has raised $22 million in new funding as the company expands its drone solutions and operations globally. The Series B round was joined by DiamondStream Partners, EquityPitcher Ventures, Verve Ventures, Ace & Co. and the European Innovation ...
BitGo fixes critical flaw in Ethereum wallet software discovered by Fireblocks
Enterprise cryptocurrency wallet BitGo Inc. today patched a critical flaw that could have exposed users’ Ethereum private keys after researchers at the digital asset custody firm Fireblocks Inc. discovered the exploit. The researchers found the vulnerability and notified BitGo in December, the team said, which affected the company’s implementation of its Ethereum TSS enabled self-managed ...
Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum launches token and Layer 3 blockchains
Offchain Labs Inc., the developer of the Ethereum blockchain scaling solution Arbitrum, announced today that it will airdrop, or give away for free to select people, its new token $ARB, a new cryptocurrency that would be used for voting on two of its blockchain products. The company also announced the launch of the Arbitrum Foundation ...
Microsoft introduces AI-powered Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft Corp. today announced it’s upgrading its Microsoft 365 suite of workplace productivity tools with Copilot, the company’s generative artificial intelligence-powered assistant, which combines the power of OpenAI LP’s recently announced GPT-4 with business data. Using Microsoft 365 Copilot the AI will be directly integrated into apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, allowing ...
PwC partners with Harvey to build AI tools to assist its lawyers
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said today that it’s building a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to assist its lawyers and streamline their work as part of a growing trend of businesses adopting the technology as part of their everyday activities. To build the technology into its legal services, PwC is partnering with Harvey, a company backed by the ...
Salesforce rolls out NFT tools to help businesses embrace Web3
Salesforce Inc. today announced it’s rolling out its digital collectibles platform for Web3 branded nonfungible tokens in a limited release so that brands can more readily embrace the decentralized technology and build loyalty programs. Salesforce Web3 brings the power of blockchain technology into the hands of businesses to create, manage and deploy nonfungible tokens in ...