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LeoLabs raises $29M to help companies safely operate in space
Satellite protection and space debris mapping startup LeoLabs Inc. today said it has raised an additional $29 million in new funding led by GP Bullhound. to help companies that operate in space expand their advanced artificial intelligence-powered insights. The new funding is an extension of the company’s Series B round that brought in $65 million in June 2021. ...
Crowd in San Francisco destroys driverless Waymo car by setting it ablaze
A crowd in San Francisco’s Chinatown surrounded a Waymo robotaxi and then set it on fire Saturday night, according to a report in the San Francisco Standard and other media outlets. Although there is no apparent motive for the attack, videos posted on social media show the car being mobbed by a crowd that began by scrawling ...
Xensam raises $40M for AI-powered software asset management platform
Xensam AB, a Swedish startup that assists companies with managing their software assets using artificial intelligence, today announced it has raised its first-ever external funds in a $40 million growth funding round led by London-based Expedition Growth Capital. Founded in 2016, the company provides an AI-powered platform that allows Information Technology teams to track, manage, monitor, identify ...
FCC votes to ban AI-generated voices on robocalls
The Federal Communications Commission today outlawed robocalls that use voices generated by artificial intelligence to crack down on deepfake technologies that may scam individuals and mislead voters. The initiative took immediate effect today, according to the unanimous ruling, which extends the FCC’s anti-robocall rules to cover calls that use artificially created or prerecorded voices that emulate ...
Major tech companies join US AI safety consortium to set standards for future development
The United States Department of Commerce announced today the creation of the U.S. AI Institute Consortium that will bring together major technology companies, government researchers and academics to support the development of safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence standards. The new consortium, housed under the U.S. AI Safety Institute, or USAISI, will be part of the executive order signed by ...
Google renames Bard to Gemini and brings it to mobile devices
Google LLC said today it’s renaming its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard to Gemini to reflect the large language model that powers the service and will bring the chatbot to Android devices to become an opt-in experience as an AI assistant. Gemini is the name of Google’s most powerful LLM, capable of holding conversations, advanced text ...
OpenAI will now add labels to AI-generated images following Meta
OpenAI said Tuesday that it will begin labeling images generated by its artificial intelligence image generator DALL-E 3, which is embedded within ChatGPT, that will allow users and other companies to identify any artwork created by it. This follows a similar announcement by Meta Platforms Inc. to add metadata labels to AI-generated images uploaded to Facebook, Instagram and Threads ...
Synthetaic raises $15M for advanced AI image classification and detection
Synthetaic Inc., a provider of advanced artificial intelligence solutions, today announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding co-led by Lupa Systems and TitletownTech to accelerate the development and commercialization of its platform for classification and detection of image data. The company’s Series B funding follows the company’s $13 million Series A funding ...
NinjaOne raises $231M at nearly $2B valuation for its IT management platform
NinjaOne LLC, a company that provides a platform for information technology teams to automate and manage security and privacy needs, today announced that it has raised $231.5 million bringing the company’s valuation to $1.9 billion. The Series C funding round was led by ICONIQ Growth and was joined by Frank Slootman, the chairman and chief executive of ...
Ethereum Name Service partners with GoDaddy to link domain names and blockchain addresses
Ethereum Name Service, a blockchain-based naming system, today announced a partnership with the domain name registrar and web hosting service GoDaddy Inc. to link ENS-enabled names to web domains for users without the need for technical know-how. ENS works to simplify complex blockchain wallet addresses, which can be represented by up to 40 alphanumeric characters, ...