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Microsoft 365 Copilot gets AI reasoning skills for advanced research and analysis
Microsoft Corp. is enhancing the capabilities of its popular artificial intelligence-powered Copilot tool with the launch late today of its first “deep reasoning” agents, which can solve complex problems in the way a highly skilled professional might do. The new Researcher and Analyst agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot represent the latest evolution of AI agents, ...
Komprise brings more simplicity to petabyte-scale data migrations
Big-data management company Komprise Inc. said today it’s expanding its popular Elastic Data Migration platform, with new capabilities that allow it to automate fully every step of the most complex enterprise data migrations. The company specializes in unstructured data management, and one of its main capabilities is moving this information from on-premises environments to the ...
OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap takes on expanded role as CEO Sam Altman shifts focus to research
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap’s role at the company is being expanded, and he’ll henceforth be tasked with running the company’s “business and day-to-day operations,” giving Chief Executive Sam Altman more time to focus on research and products. In a blog post Monday, OpenAI said that Lightcap (pictured), who has been at the company ...
Browser Use raises $17M to help steer AI agents through the internet
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Browser Use believes it can play a critical role in helping so-called AI agents navigate the web after closing on a $17 million funding round Saturday. Felicis Ventures led the round, which also saw participation from A Capital, Nexus Ventures, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Liquid2, SV Angel, Pioneer Fund and other ...
Rerun gets $17M to build the essential data infrastructure for AI-powered robots, drones and cars
Stockholm-based startup Rerun.io AB announced today it has raised $17 million in seed funding to build out a multimodal data stack for what it calls “physical AI.” Today’s round was led by Point Nine and saw participation from Sunflower Capital and existing investors Costanoa Ventures and Seedcamp. Angel investors such as Vercel Inc. Chief Executive ...
Money-hungry AI search startup Perplexity in talks to raise up to $1B in fresh funding
The artificial intelligence search application company Perpexity AI Inc. is gearing up for yet another mammoth funding round, according to the latest chat from Bloomberg and CNBC. Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that the early-stage discussions with investors could see the company raise between $500 million and $1 billion, and ultimately boost its value to a ...
Micron’s stock falls despite solid jump in revenue from AI memory chips
Updated: Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. posted a strong earnings and revenue beat, demonstrating that it’s still enjoying a significant boost from artificial intelligence. Growth in sales of its highest-capacity memory products was rampant, and its stock moved higher after-hours. However, on Friday, its stock was falling more than 7% on another down day ...
Report co-authored by Fei-Fei Li stresses need for AI regulations to consider future risks
A new report co-authored by the artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li urges lawmakers to anticipate future risks that have not yet been conceived when drawing up regulations to govern how the technology should be used. The 41-page report by the Joint California Policy Working Group on Frontier AI Models comes after California Governor Gavin Newsom shot ...
OpenAI’s new reasoning model o1-pro is powerful but pricey
OpenAI is upping the stakes for artificial intelligence reasoning applications with the debut of a more powerful version of its popular o1 model. The company has just launched o1-pro, making it available through its new developer application programming interface called Responses API. According to OpenAI, the o1-pro model can provide “consistently better responses” than the original ...
SoftBank agrees to buy Arm chipmaker Ampere Computing for $6.5B
SoftBank Group Corp. late today confirmed that it will buy the chipmaker Ampere Computing LLC in a deal that’s valued at $6.5 billion. It said it expects the acquisition to close during the second half of the year, according to a statement. Oracle Corp. and Carlyle Group, two of the main stakeholders in Ampere, have both ...
