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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Google Cloud launches new generative AI features for Vertex AI
Google LLC’s cloud division today announced new features in its Vertex AI platform to help businesses use generative artificial intelligence in their own software by providing them with new tools to build and transform their own models. In today’s announcement at this …
Google unveils PaLM 2, its most powerful general-purpose AI yet, to power Bard chatbot
Artificial intelligence took the center stage today at Google LLC’s annual developer conference Google I/O with the unveiling of PaLM 2, the second iteration of the Pathways Language Model. It’s a transformer-based large language model artificial intelligence developed by Google Research that …
Google and OpenAI struggling to keep up with open-source AI, senior engineer warns
Google LLC and ChatGPT developer OpenAI LP face increasing competition from open-source developers in the field of generative artificial intelligence, which may threaten to overcome them, a senior Google engineer warned in a leaked document. The engineer, identified as Luke Sernau by …
Shopify cuts staff by 20% and sells logistics arm to Flexiport
Shopify Inc., an e-commerce giant that builds platforms for the enterprise and small businesses, announced today that it’s laying off 20% of its workforce, affecting more than 2,000 employees, and will sell most of its logistics business to Flexiport Inc. This news …