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OpenAI advocates for more funding and ‘AI economic zones’ to drive innovation
OpenAI has laid out a new “economic blueprint” for the artificial intelligence industry that aims to ensure America remains at the forefront of innovation. In a blog post today that introduced the new document, the company stresses that it believes in America “because America believes in innovation,” and tries to position itself as a champion of ...
UK PM Keir Starmer to announce new plans to transform the country into an ‘AI superpower’
The U.K. government under Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a plan Monday to implement a massive increase in the country’s computing infrastructure in order to foster the growth of homegrown artificial intelligence startups that can rival the likes of OpenAI. Under the U.K.’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” the government has set ...
Salesforce brings an AI-powered digital labor force to retailers
Salesforce Inc. is targeting retailers with its latest artificial intelligence innovations announced today, including a customized version of the Agentforce platform and a new product called Retail Cloud with Modern POS. The new tools will help to boost the productivity of store associates, digital merchants and customer service teams and help them to provide more ...
Diffbot boosts LLM accuracy by tapping into its vast Knowledge Graph of up-to-date information
Knowledge graph startup Diffbot Technologies Corp., which maintains one of the largest online knowledge indexes, is looking to tackle the problem of hallucinations in artificial intelligence chatbots by ensuring the accuracy of their responses. The company has just launched a fine-tuned version of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama 3.3, saying that its responses are enhanced using ...
Hippocratic AI raises $141M to staff hospitals with clinical AI agents
The healthcare-focused artificial intelligence startup Hippocratic AI Inc. said today it has closed on a $141 million Series B funding round that brings its total amount raised to more than $278 million. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins, a venture capitalist firm that previously backed Google LLC and Amazon.com Inc. during their early days, ...
Decentralized payments startup Nevermined raises $4M to unlock AI-to-AI agent commerce
Swiss artificial intelligence payments startup Nevermined SÀRL said today it has closed on a $4 million funding round. The money will be used to accelerate the development of its decentralized infrastructure for AI-to-AI transactions, enabling AI agents to engage in automated commerce. Today’s round was led by Generative Ventures and saw participation from a host of ...
Code Intelligence’s new AI agent Spark works autonomously to find bugs in any codebase
German application security testing startup Code Intelligence GmbH today announced what it says is the first fully autonomous artificial intelligence-powered “test agent” that can find bugs and vulnerabilities in unknown code. It’s called Spark, and the company reckons it’s the first AI agent of its kind to identify a real-world vulnerability within a popular open-source ...
Google Cloud expands retail offerings with AI agents and enhanced search experiences
Google Cloud today announced the arrival of multiple new artificial intelligence tools that aim to help retailers enhance their customer’s experiences, just days ahead of the National Retail Foundation’s annual shindig, NRF 2025. The new innovations include a dedicated version of the Google Agentspace tool for providing knowledge and expertise to employees for the retail industry and new ...
Contentstack snaps up customer data startup Lytics to enhance content personalization
Digital content experiences platform provider Contentstack Inc. said today it has acquired the customer data platform startup Lytics Inc. for an undisclosed price. By acquiring 11-year-old Lytics, Contentstack will be able to integrate the company’s technology, which helps marketers target consumers using real-time engagement data, into its own platform. Lytics’ CDP is used by companies ...
Samsung forecasts Q4 profit miss amid struggle to supply Nvidia with AI chips
Samsung Electronics said today that it’s likely to miss expectations on fourth-quarter profit by a wide margin, as analysts blamed the miss on the poor performance of its high-end memory chips for artificial intelligence accelerators. In its preliminary earnings forecast, Samsung said its fiscal 2024 fourth-quarter operating is likely to double from a year earlier, ...