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Global outages hit Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, ChatGPT Search and Copilot
Bing Search and sites powered by Microsoft Corp.’s Bing have been experiencing outages worldwide today that began at about 3 a.m. EDT. Searchers using Bing and other websites that rely on Bing Search, such as Copilot for the web, Copilot on Windows, OpenAI’s ChatGPT internet search, DuckDuckGo Inc’s private search will see errors. According to user ...
JetBrains officially releases Kotlin 2.0 in major update to programming language
Software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o. today announced the milestone release of Kotlin 2.0, a major update to the programming language used on Android and for multiplatform development. Announced during KotlinConf 2024, the new stable 2.0 version was rewritten from scratch and based on a new architecture that significantly improves performance and will help boost developer productivity, according to JetBrains. The ...
DeepL raises $300M at $2B valuation to help enterprise businesses with AI language solutions
DeepL SE, the developer of artificial intelligence translation and writing solutions for enterprise, said today that it has raised $300 million in new investments, bringing its post-money valuation to $2 billion. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, with support from additional late-stage investors that included Iconiq Growth, Teachers’ Venture Growth and existing investors IVP, Atomico and WiL. The ...
AI contract review platform Superlegal raises $5M to help companies close deals faster
Superlegal, the first artificial intelligence-powered contract review platform for small and medium-sized businesses authorized to practice law in the United States, today announced that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round co-led by Aleph and Disruptive AI fund. The investment round also attracted participation from Alicorn Venture Capital and Tom Glocer, the former chief executive ...
Lasso Security brings contextual data protection to generative AI applications
Lasso Security Inc., a generative artificial intelligence security company, today announced the launch of a custom contextual policy wizard aimed at helping companies avoid data leaks when working with everyday tools such as OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The company provides large language model cybersecurity and data management for companies through an end-to-end solution. It detects what AI apps ...
Microsoft brings developers AI tool updates across Visual Studio and Azure
Microsoft Corp. went all-in on offering tools for developers today during its annual developer conference Build, with new tools and services that will upgrade their game when working with artificial intelligence in its Azure cloud and in coding environments such as Visual Studio. Front and center, Visual Studio Code, the company’s integrated development environment, where ...
OpenAI to pull ChatGPT ‘Sky’ voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson – who isn’t happy
Updated: OpenAI, the creator of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, said today it will put a pause on the AI’s “Sky” voice after users commented that it sounded extremely similar to actress Scarlett Johansson. The AI voice debuted last week during the company’s reveal of a new underlying model for ChatGPT called GPT-4o. Capable of understanding and responding to video, including facial ...
AI cloud infrastructure startup CoreWeave raises $7.5B in debt financing
Artificial intelligence cloud-computing infrastructure startup CoreWeave Inc. today said it has raised $7.5 billion in debt financing. The funding was led by Blackstone Inc. with participation from Carlyle Group and BlackRock Inc. in one of the largest private debt funding rounds to date. It follows hot on the heels earlier this month of the company’s Series C equity financing ...
JetBrains releases Aqua, a development environment for test automation
Professional software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o today announced the official release of Aqua, the first development environment explicitly for helping streamline the software testing process by helping design test automation. Aqua allows test automation engineers and developers to build all manner of tests quickly during their software development process. These automated tests can be designed for user interfaces, application programming interfaces ...
Voxel51 raises $30M to help companies refine their visual AI models
Voxel51 Inc., a platform that helps visual artificial intelligence model developers curate and refine their data to increase the accuracy of their AI models, today announced that the company has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its products. The Series B investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from new investor Tru Arrow ...