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H&R Block unveils conversational AI tax assistant for DIY filers
Tax preparation company H&R Block Inc. today introduced a conversational artificial intelligence chatbot designed to answer tax questions for tax filers preparing their own documents. The technology uses generative AI, the same sort of intelligence that powers OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, combined with H&R Block’s deep expertise in tax laws to provide real-time tax assistance. The chatbot is ...
LINE NEXT raises $140M to fuel global NFT marketplace expansion
LINE NEXT Corp., a South Korean-based nonfungible token and cryptocurrency collectible arm of messaging giant LINE Corp., today announced it has raised a $140 million investment to expand its global business as part of a “plan to popularize the Web3 ecosystem” and open a marketplace for digital collectibles. The investment comes from a consortium led ...
Sourcegraph launches AI coding assistant Cody into general availability
Sourcegraph Inc., a startup best known for developing a universal code search tool, today announced it’s releasing the company’s generative artificial intelligence-powered chatbot coding assistant Cody into general availability. With Cody, developers get an AI assistant that uses intelligent code context to provide answers to technical questions, provide code completion in editors, generate code blocks, ...
Salesforce announces updated unstructured data capabilities for its AI and CRM platform
Salesforce Inc. today announced major updates to its Data Cloud, part of the company’s Einstein 1 Platform, which will allow companies to ingest unstructured data such as PDFs, emails, audio and social media content and connect them with artificial intelligence-powered experiences. All of these improvements are aimed at greatly improving Einstein Copilot, Salesforce’s generative AI assistant, currently ...
Google Cloud launches coding AI assistant with Duet AI for Developers
Google Cloud, the cloud division of Google LLC, today announced that generative artificial intelligence assistance is coming to software developers where they do their work, in developer environments and editors, with Duet AI for Developers. The launch of Duet AI for Developers into general availability marks the technology giant’s first push into the AI-powered coding assistant space ...
Google unleashes Gemini Pro for enterprises and developers to build on
Google LLC today said that it’s making its largest and most capable generative artificial intelligence model to date, Gemini, available for developers and enterprises to build their own apps that take advantage of its sophisticated reasoning capabilities and native ability to understand text, code, audio, images and video. Gemini comes in three different sizes: Ultra, Pro ...
Copado opens beta access to enterprise DevOps AI assistant CopadoGPT to all customers
Copado Inc., a DevOps platform for Salesforce and software-as-a-service deployments, today announced that it’s expanding access to its generative artificial intelligence chatbot, CopadoGPT, to all customers in beta mode. Copado said that its AI assistant operates as a “resident expert in all things Copado,” by using an AI model with a decade’s worth of Salesforce experience ...
Atlassian announces wide availability of generative AI capabilities across its products
Atlassian Corp. Plc. said today it’s bringing generative artificial intelligence agents and services online across its flagship collaborative product software line so its customers can get the benefits of conversational access to their organization’s data and quick insights. In April, the company announced the first set of services as part of Atlassian Intelligence, launched in beta ...
Lutra AI launches to make building automated AI workflows easy
A new startup named Lutra AI launched today with a platform aimed at helping users create personal artificial intelligence workflows and automate repetitive tasks without the need for deep technical expertise. Lutra is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Jiquan Ngiam, who previously worked at Google LLC and the online education provider Coursera Inc. He saw ...
Messenger gets end-to-end encryption privacy enabled by default
Meta Platforms Inc. is finally upgrading Messenger to be end-to-end encrypted by default, ending a multiyear journey to make the messaging app secure for its users. The company announced the completion of the project on Wednesday, noting that the upgrade will bring E2EE, as it’s known in short, to all users without them having to select the ...