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Amazon expands drone deliveries with FAA approval in US

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:19 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. said today it received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to fly its drones longer distances and will use the new license to expand its Prime Air service to more customers. The FAA approved Amazon with permission to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight, known as BLVOS, a term used in aviation […]

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Google and Magic Leap partner on augmented reality deal

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:25:48 +0000

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and augmented reality startup Magic Leap Inc. announced today that the two companies have joined forces in a strategic partnership to collaborate on AR and optics solutions. Although the announcement is scant on details, the two companies said that the partnership would combine Magic Leap’s optics and manufacturing expertise with Google’s technological […]

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Switchboard raises $7.5M to help provide blockchain projects links to real-world data

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:55:02 +0000

On-chain “oracle” startup Switchboard Technology Labs Inc., which builds services that provide Web3 projects access to real-world third-party data, today announced it raised $7.5 million in early-stage funding co-led by Tribe Capital and RockawayX. Additional backing for the company’s Series A funding round included investments from the Solana Foundation, Aptos Labs, Mitzen Labs, Subzero Ventures, […]

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PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise in US and UK

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 May 2024 09:00:48 +0000

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and OpenAI today signed an agreement making the PwC the first reseller for ChatGPT Enterprise, bringing generative AI deeper into the enterprise for customers in the United States and the United Kingdom. Launched in August, ChatGPT Enterprise provides unlimited access to the latest and greatest models that OpenAI has to provide, including GPT-4 […]

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GaiaNet raises $10M for its decentralized AI agent project

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:05:51 +0000

Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project GaiaNet today announced it has raised $10 million in seed funding to provide access to edge nodes where developers can deploy artificial intelligence agents and other generative AI tools. The company’s funding round attracted key advisors bringing additional resources including Generative Ventures’ Lex Sokolin, Republic Capital’s Brian Johnson, 7RIDGE’s Shawn […]

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Chromebook Plus receives built-in AI updates with Gemini for photos and writing

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 28 May 2024 13:00:28 +0000

The ChromeOS-based Chromebook Plus laptops lineup from Google LLC today received built-in artificial intelligence updates with Gemini that will assist users with writing, editing and sparkling up their photos. The entire Chromebook is getting new features that will help users make better use of their phone, take control of their calendar and be more productive. Google rolled out Chromebook Plus as […]

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Aerodome raises $21.5M to send drones to assist first responders on calls

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:30:14 +0000

Aerodome Inc., a company that supports first responders such as police, paramedics and firefighters with drones, today announced that it raised $21.5 million in early funding to expand its engineering and marketing teams. The company provides a fully automated and remote air support solution using drones that can arrive on scene before first responders to provide […]

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Global outages hit Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, ChatGPT Search and Copilot

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:46:09 +0000

Bing Search and sites powered by Microsoft Corp.’s Bing have been experiencing outages worldwide today that began at about 3 a.m. EDT. Searchers using Bing and other websites that rely on Bing Search, such as Copilot for the web, Copilot on Windows, OpenAI’s ChatGPT internet search, DuckDuckGo Inc’s private search will see errors. According to user […]

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JetBrains officially releases Kotlin 2.0 in major update to programming language

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:00:13 +0000

Software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o. today announced the milestone release of Kotlin 2.0, a major update to the programming language used on Android and for multiplatform development. Announced during KotlinConf 2024, the new stable 2.0 version was rewritten from scratch and based on a new architecture that significantly improves performance and will help boost developer productivity, according to JetBrains. The […]

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DeepL raises $300M at $2B valuation to help enterprise businesses with AI language solutions

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:10:24 +0000

DeepL SE, the developer of artificial intelligence translation and writing solutions for enterprise, said today that it has raised $300 million in new investments, bringing its post-money valuation to $2 billion. The funding round was led by Index Ventures, with support from additional late-stage investors that included Iconiq Growth, Teachers’ Venture Growth and existing investors IVP, Atomico and WiL. The […]

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AI contract review platform Superlegal raises $5M to help companies close deals faster

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:00:37 +0000

Superlegal, the first artificial intelligence-powered contract review platform for small and medium-sized businesses authorized to practice law in the United States, today announced that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round co-led by Aleph and Disruptive AI fund. The investment round also attracted participation from Alicorn Venture Capital and Tom Glocer, the former chief executive […]

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Lasso Security brings contextual data protection to generative AI applications

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 22 May 2024 07:00:57 +0000

Lasso Security Inc., a generative artificial intelligence security company, today announced the launch of a custom contextual policy wizard aimed at helping companies avoid data leaks when working with everyday tools such as OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The company provides large language model cybersecurity and data management for companies through an end-to-end solution. It detects what AI apps […]

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Microsoft brings developers AI tool updates across Visual Studio and Azure

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:30:33 +0000

Microsoft Corp. went all-in on offering tools for developers today during its annual developer conference Build, with new tools and services that will upgrade their game when working with artificial intelligence in its Azure cloud and in coding environments such as Visual Studio. Front and center, Visual Studio Code, the company’s integrated development environment, where […]

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OpenAI to pull ChatGPT ‘Sky’ voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson – who isn’t happy

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:35:31 +0000

Updated: OpenAI, the creator of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, said today it will put a pause on the AI’s “Sky” voice after users commented that it sounded extremely similar to actress Scarlett Johansson. The AI voice debuted last week during the company’s reveal of a new underlying model for ChatGPT called GPT-4o. Capable of understanding and responding to video, including facial […]

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AI cloud infrastructure startup CoreWeave raises $7.5B in debt financing

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:10:44 +0000

Artificial intelligence cloud-computing infrastructure startup CoreWeave Inc. today said it has raised $7.5 billion in debt financing. The funding was led by Blackstone Inc. with participation from Carlyle Group and BlackRock Inc. in one of the largest private debt funding rounds to date. It follows hot on the heels earlier this month of the company’s Series C equity financing […]

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JetBrains releases Aqua, a development environment for test automation

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:40:44 +0000

Professional software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o today announced the official release of Aqua, the first development environment explicitly for helping streamline the software testing process by helping design test automation. Aqua allows test automation engineers and developers to build all manner of tests quickly during their software development process. These automated tests can be designed for user interfaces, application programming interfaces […]

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Voxel51 raises $30M to help companies refine their visual AI models

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:50:56 +0000

Voxel51 Inc., a platform that helps visual artificial intelligence model developers curate and refine their data to increase the accuracy of their AI models, today announced that the company has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its products. The Series B investment was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from new investor Tru Arrow […]

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Rockset launches native support for hybrid vector and text search to power AI apps

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:00:47 +0000

Rockset Inc., a real-time analytics database platform built for the cloud, today announced native support for hybrid search that incorporates vector search and text search along with metadata filtering into a single query. As artificial intelligence models continue to grow in popularity the need for powerful data search and retrieval systems to augment them has grown alongside them. AI models, including Meta Platform Inc.’s Llama-3, OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google LLC’s Gemini, have […]

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Google releases second Android 15 beta alongside broader ecosystem updates

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:00:35 +0000

The Android team at Google LLC today unveiled the second developer beta for Android 15, the next milestone toward the finality of the company’s smartphone operating system, which included productivity improvements, performance and security updates. Alongside the second beta for Android 15, Google also announced developer updates for Android devices in the broader ecosystem, including Watches, TVs and additional developer tools that […]

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Ubio launches NodeScript low-code visual toolset for data workflow automation

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:00:48 +0000

Web automation platform Ubio Ltd. today announced the launch of NodeScript, a low-code visual developer environment for workflow automation and application programming interface integration. The system is designed to make it simple for developers to map out and execute data services and applications quickly. NodeScript acts as a fully featured visual coding environment where developers can immediately jump […]

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IBM expands quantum software kit Qiskit across the entire technology stack

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:00:16 +0000

IBM Corp. today announced it’s expanding its open-source quantum software engineering toolkit Qiskit to cover the entire software development stack and better equip developers with the ability to build practical solutions for quantum processors for research and enterprise applications. Launched in 2017, the Qiskit software development kit started as a way to assist developers to go quickly from code […]

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Google rolls out new AI models and tools for developers

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 14 May 2024 18:00:34 +0000

Google LLC today announced new artificial intelligence models and access to AI tools during its Google I/O 2024 developer conference that will help with providing new resources for developers working on applications using AI and machine learning. Up front and center, Google announced its newest model, Gemini 1.5 Flash, the company’s fastest model yet. It’s based on […]

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OpenAI unleashes GPT-4o, a new flagship model with real-time multimodal capabilities

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:30:45 +0000

OpenAI upped its artificial intelligence game today with a new flagship AI model named GPT-4o that can respond in real time to text, audio and image inputs, promoting more natural human-computer interactions. The company says GPT-4o, with the “o” standing for “omni,” is a step toward making talking to an AI model feel more like speaking to or working with another […]

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Nvidia announces advances in scientific high-performance AI and quantum supercomputing

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 13 May 2024 06:00:03 +0000

Nvidia Corp. today detailed how its chips are accelerating innovation in the high-performance computing industry for artificial intelligence-powered systems that will power scientific advances with supercomputing. The chipmaker also announced efforts to accelerate its quantum computing efforts at national quantum computing centers around the world, which will include installing the company’s open-source CUDA-Q platform at international sites. […]

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RunPod nabs $20M to help developers launch AI apps in the cloud

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:40:04 +0000

RunPod Inc., a cloud provider that helps developers deploy custom full-stack artificial intelligence applications, has raised $20 million in seed funding to scale its operations and bring in new partnerships. The company’s seed round, announced Wednesday, was co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital with participation from Julien Chaummond, Nat Friedman and Adam Lewis. As part of the financing, Mark Rostick, […]

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Lagrange raises $13M to build blockchain-based cryptographic ‘big data’-scale computation

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 08 May 2024 18:00:41 +0000

Lagrange Labs, a startup building the blockchain-based cryptography protocol Lagrange, today announced it raised $13.2 million in seed funding to progress its vision of scaling up verifiable computation over blockchain at “big data” scale. The funding round, led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, also attracted investments from Archetype Ventures, 1kx, Maven11, Fenbushi Capital, Volt Capital, CMT Digital and Mantle Ecosystem Fund. The company […]

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Atlan raises $105M at $750M valuation for data and AI governance platform

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 08 May 2024 15:45:43 +0000

Atlan Ple. Ltd., a startup that helps companies tackle sprawling datasets for information and artificial intelligence projects, today announced it has raised $105 million in fresh funding. The Series C round elevated the company’s valuation to $750 million. It was co-led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and Meritech Capital, and joined by existing investors Salesforce Ventures and PeakXV […]

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Xtend raises $40M to allow human commanders to guide autonomous AI drone missions

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 08 May 2024 13:00:45 +0000

Xtend, the developer of the artificial intelligence-driven operating system for drones and robots, today announced it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Chartered Group with participation from Clal-Tech. The company’s AI-powered drone operating system allows human operators to perform demanding and dynamic missions with drones and robots in the field and […]

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Apple unveils M4 chip to power next-gen iPad Pro and announces new iPad Air

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:00:04 +0000

Apple Inc. today unveiled another powerful chip into its M-class family of silicon with the M4 that will power the newly launched next-gen iPad Pro also announced during the company’s “Let Loose” event. The company also announced a new iPad Air powered by the M2 chip, which will come in two sizes, and a bevy of accessories for both new devices, including a […]

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Digital twins projects receive $285M in US government funding for the semiconductor industry

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 06 May 2024 16:20:12 +0000

The Biden administration is opening up $285 million today in federal funding and seeking applications to launch an institute in the United States to establish digital twin projects for the semiconductor industry, which use virtual models to mimic real-world objects to optimize efficiency and reduce costs. The funding is part of the CHIPS and Science […]

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