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In another example of intelligence changing the nature of work, Hollywood actors brought up their own concerns about how studios intend to use the technology to use their likenesses in media forever without compensation. During a press conference Thursday, the actors said that …
Report: Meta plans to release its AI model for commercial use
Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to release a commercial version of its artificial intelligence model designed for commercial use, according to a report today from the Financial Times. Meta released its foundational large language model, known as Large Language Model Meta AI or LLaMA, …
GitHub becomes passwordless with passkey support public beta
Popular developer code repository platform GitHub announced that it’s releasing passwordless authentication support in public beta, which will allow users to upgrade their security keys to use passkeys for login. Passkeys allow users to associate login information with individual devices or hardware keys …
Microsoft reveals Chinese hackers breached US government emails
A Chinese-based hacking group has breached Microsoft email accounts belonging to two dozen government agencies, including the State Department, in the United States and Western Europe, Microsoft Corp. and U.S. national security officials revealed late Tuesday. The issue was discovered when U.S. …
Prolific raises $32M to use people to train and test AI models
Prolific, a company that was founded to source verified data from human participants, said today that it has raised $32 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises to broaden its services to use human insights …
Rocsys raises $36M to grow its AI-powered robotic electric vehicle charging solution
Rocsys, the provider of autonomous robotic chargers for electric vehicles, today announced it has raised $36 million in fresh funding to expand its charging solution to follow the growth in EVs and self-driving vehicles. The company said that SEB Greentech Venture Capital …
Anthropic releases upgraded Claude 2 AI chatbot with improved safety and coding ability
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence research startup that aims to build trustworthy AI models to rival OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, today released an upgraded version of its Claude chatbot with greatly improved safety and coding capabilities. Claude 2, an upgrade over Claude 1.3, is …
Pano AI raises $17M to expand artificial intelligence wildfire detection solution
Pano AI, a company that provides an artificial intelligence solution for the detection of wildfires, today said it has raised $17 million in new funding to expand its network and capabilities to help professionals deal with these natural disasters by helping catch …
Comedian Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing the developer of ChatGPT OpenAI LP and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc., claiming that the companies used copyrighted materials from their books when training their artificial intelligence chatbots. A pair of class action …
Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions
Lightning Labs, the developer of the Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling solution, announced Thursday the release of a set of tools to allow the developers to create artificial intelligence chatbots that can send and receive bitcoins. Chatbots such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT have …