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Google to pay $700M to settle Play Store antitrust case with US states and consumers
Google LLC has agreed to pay $700 million and change the policies of how operates its Google Play app store to settle an antitrust lawsuit with U.S. states and consumers. The settlement, tentatively agreed upon in September, was formally disclosed late Monday evening. It provides for a $630 million customer fund and an additional $70 ...
Apple to stop Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US starting Thursday
Apple Inc. said that it will soon suspend the sale of two of its flagship Apple Watch models later this this week in the United States after a ruling from the U.S. International Trade Commission. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will be pulled from websites on Dec. 21 and pulled ...
Adobe and Figma end $20B proposed merger amid regulatory issues
Adobe Inc. has called off a planned $20 billion acquisition of the collaboration software developer Figma Inc. after the European regulators set sights on the deal and said the merger could reduce competition in local markets. Adobe and Figma announced this morning that the companies mutually agreed to terminate the cash-and-stock agreement, originally announced on Sept. 15, ...
Inverted AI secures $4M to simulate human drivers with generative AI to help develop autonomous vehicles
Inverted AI, a Vancouver-based company that uses generative artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle development, announced Thursday it has raised $4 million in early-stage funding to realistically simulate human drivers on roadways. The seed funding round was led by Yaletown Partners, with participation from investors including Blue Titan Ventures, Dasein Capital, Inovia Capital, Defined and WUTIF. Inverted AI ...
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 ...