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Big-data company Cloudera Inc. is pushing to become the go-to partner for enterprise-grade sovereign artificial intelligence workloads after announcing a massive, nine-figure strategic partnership with the French AI model maker Mistral AI SAS. The partnership is aimed at bringing secure, sovereign AI …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images gets faster, with sharper details and more refined edits
OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s giving its image-generation tool a bit more artistic flair, announcing the launch of ChatGPT Images 2.5, an update to ChatGPT Images 2.0 that debuted in April. According to OpenAI, the new tool is able to generate …
Meta debuts its ‘secure by design’ personal AI agent Muse, stock rises 6%
Updated: Meta Platforms Inc. is betting that people will be more willing to adopt artificial intelligence agents if they’re simpler to use and they can be trusted. The social media giant today announced Muse, a personal AI agent that people can communicate …
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas maps all 9 billion possible human DNA changes
Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit said today it has used its AlphaGenome artificial intelligence model to predict the biological consequences of the more than 9 billion possible single-letter changes to human DNA. It’s making the resulting database available free to researchers globally …
Lightsage gets $4M in funding to help software makers sell directly to autonomous AI agents
Lightsage, an early-stage startup that’s helping software companies to sell their products to artificial intelligence agents, said today it has raised $4 million to spark a new era of “agent-led growth.” The seed funding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners and …
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is returning to the robotaxi race
Travis Kalanick, the disgraced founder of Uber Technologies Co. Ltd., is reportedly trying to become a key figure in the ride-hailing market again by developing robotaxi technology at his new startup Atoms. A report in the Financial Times today provided more insight …
Nvidia PAIR makes it easy to create a household data center for running agentic AI tasks
Nvidia Corp. is targeting artificial intelligence agent enthusiasts with a new local distributed clustering tool called the Personal AI Router. It enables them to use any idle Mac computers or PCs lying around the house to run small language models on demand …
UiPath beats on revenue but its stock tanks after-hours
UiPath Inc.’s stock endured a wild swing after the company posted second-quarter revenue that beat analyst expectations. The stock initially popped more than 10% right after the company reported, only to reverse course later. At the time of writing, the shares were …
Market research startup askpolly raises $3M to transform social media chatter into verifiable insights
Artificial intelligence startup askpolly, officially known as Advanced Symbolics Inc., said today it has closed on a $3 million seed funding round to grow its platform that transforms social media insights into statistically valid market research. The round was led by Differential …
Meta says it has caught up with Anthropic and OpenAI with Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet
Meta Platforms Inc. says it has more or less caught up with the biggest artificial intelligence labs with the release of its most powerful large language model so far, Muse Spark 1.3. The company said in a blog post today that the …