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Elon Musk secretly working on AI despite calling for six-month development pause
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk recently co-signed an open letter along with hundreds of others calling for a six-month pause on the development of artificial intelligence technology. But while doing so, he has secretly been investing “tens of millions” of dollars into Twitter’s own AI projects. That’s according to a report by Insider, which ...
Buoyant’s Linkerd 2.13 service mesh release debuts free, automated health checks and more
Service mesh startup Bouyant Inc. announced a new release of Linkerd today that brings new features including automated health monitoring, dynamic request routing based on the Kubernetes Gateway application programming interface, circuit breaking for overloaded services and more. Today’s release comes a week before the first-ever Linkerd Day conference, which will be held in Amsterdam on ...
Network transformation startup NetBox Labs raises $20M in new funding
Network management and automation startup NetBox Labs Inc. is looking to fly out of the gates after closing on a $20 million round of funding today. The Series A round was led by Flybridge Capital and saw the participation of Grafana Labs Inc. Chief Executive Raj Dutt, Mango Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, IBM Corp., the ...
Netskope integrates SD-WAN and SASE for secure, high-performance access to any app
Cloud security and networking startup Netskope Inc. said today it’s launching a new software service called Netskope Endpoint SD-WAN in order to provide companies with secure and optimized access to endpoint devices in any location. Founded in 2012, Netskope offers a Secure Access Service Edge or SASE platform that provides discovery, visibility and granular control ...
TSMC raises concerns over U.S. CHIPS Act subsidies
The world’s biggest computer chip maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is reportedly seeking assurances from the U.S. government about subsidies it will receive for the $40 billion manufacturing facilities it’s planning to build in Arizona. At a time when it’s facing a sharp drop in revenue, TSMC is said to be discussing Washington’s “guidance” over a ...
Sensible Technologies applies GPT-4 to document data extraction
Document transformation startup Sensible Technologies Inc. today became the latest company to embrace the phenomenon that is generative artificial intelligence, as it announced the availability of a new tool powered by OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 that makes it simple to extract information from unstructured documents. With Sensible Instruct, it becomes possible to use natural language to extract ...
EU lawmakers finally set to approve European Chips Act
European Union countries and lawmakers are expected to give the green light to a 43 billion euro ($47 billion) plan that will help its semiconductor industry catch up with Asia and the United States, Reuters reported today. The EU’s Chips Act was announced last year, as countries in the region determined to reduce their reliance ...
Portrait Analytics raises $3M to launch AI-powered investment research assistant
Portrait Analytics, a startup building a generative artificial intelligence-powered research platform for investment analysts, said early today that it has closed on a $3 million pre-seed funding round. Today’s round was led by .406 Ventures and saw participation from a number of unnamed partners at leading hedge funds. The startup is attempting to bring the ...
Amid ‘hallucinations,’ OpenAI details how it’s striving to improve the accuracy and safety of its AI systems
Just hours after U.S. President Joe Biden called on artificial intelligence software developers to take responsibility for the safety of their products, ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP has gone public on the measures it takes to minimize the dangers its systems might pose. In a blog post today, OpenAI said it recognized the potential risks associated ...
Vianai Systems brings generative AI to investors with ‘hila’ chat assistant
Human-centered artificial intelligence firm Vianai Systems Inc. today launched what it says is a first-of-its-kind AI chat assistant for institutional and retail investors, investment banking analysts and other professionals. The assistant, called “hila,” is available to use for free in beta for a limited time, and Vianai claims that it will set a new standard ...