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Meta updates Threads to connect with Mastodon and other fediverse social networks
A new update to Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media platform Threads will allow users to connect their social media profiles to the fediverse, which will allow them to be visible on other platforms such as Mastodon. The capability, announced by Meta’s engineering team on Thursday, allows users in the United States, Canada and Japan to “federate” their ...
Google releases second developer preview for Android 15
The Android team at Google LLC today released the second developer preview for Android 15, which includes extended support for satellite connectivity, better support for large screens, prioritizes privacy for developers and streamlines app performance. Previews provide a way for developers to get time hands-on with the upcoming operating system before the Android team begins to ...
Japanese startup Sakana releases AI models created through ‘evolutionary’ processes
Sakana AI, an artificial intelligence startup based in Tokyo that takes inspiration from nature, today announced a new method for creating generative AI models using what the company says is similar to evolutionary processes by merging models together. “Our method can automatically create a new underlying model with the capabilities specified by the user,” the ...
Morph raises $20M to build consumer-focused Ethereum scaling blockchain solution
Morph, a blockchain company making a layer 2 Ethereum scaling solution aimed at assisting developers building consumer-focused decentralized apps, today announced it has raised $20 million in a seed funding round led by Dragonfly Capital. The funding round attracted participation from Panthera Capital, Foresight Ventures, The Spartan Group, MEXC Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Public Works, MH Ventures and ...
Google fined $272M by French government over AI use of news content
France’s competition watchdog said today it has fined Google LLC €250 million (about $272 million), citing concerns that the company used copyrighted information from media publishers in the European Union. The watchdog, Autorité de la Concurrence, said that Google had trained its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini, previously known as Bard, on content from news publishers and agencies ...
Healthcare industry chatbot firm Hippocratic AI raises $53M at $500M valuation
Hippocratic AI, a company building a safety-first focused artificial intelligence large language model for the healthcare industry, announced Monday it has raised $53 million in new funding increasing the company’s valuation to $500 million. The Series A funding round was co-led by Premji Invest and General Catalyst with participation from SV Angel and Memorial Hermann Health System. ...
Stability AI launches new model that turns images into 3D videos
Open generative intelligence startup Stability AI Ltd. launched a new AI model called Stable Video 3D late Monday that can transform still images into 3D objects and videos. The new model is called Stable Video 3D is built on the foundation of Stability AI’s Stable Video Diffusion, a image-to-video model that can take a still image and ...
Nvidia announces APIs for Omniverse Cloud to power digital twins for software tools
Nvidia Corp. today announced that it’s expanding Omniverse Cloud with application programming interfaces, which will open up the platform for industrial digital twin applications and software developers. Omniverse acts as a collaborative “metaverse” platform for developers, artists and engineers to visualize and generate 3D models of projects. Objects simulated within Omniverse, also known as “digital twins,” act ...
Nvidia unveils Project GR00T AI foundation model for humanoid robots
Taking its first steps into humanoid robotics, Nvidia Corp. today announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation artificial intelligence model for bipedal humanoid robots, designed to further work on this new type of embodied AI research. In addition to the announcement made during the company’s GTC 2024 conference in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled a new computer, ...
Figure Markets raises $60M to build crypto ‘everything marketplace’
Blockchain-based lending firm Figure Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of Figure Markets Inc. with $60 million in new funding to build what the company called an “everything marketplace,” a single platform for investors to trade cryptocurrency, securities and alternative investments using blockchain technology. The Series A round was led by Jump Crypto, Pantera Capital and Lightspeed Faction, with ...