News coverage on artificial intelligence and machine learning tech, the companies building them, and the ethical issues AI raises today. This encompasses generative AI, including large language models, text-to-image and text-to-video models; speech recognition and generation; and predictive analytics.
AI
Apple shelved the idea of integrating Meta’s AI models over privacy concerns, report says
Ivan Mehta
30 mins ago
Days after the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple and Meta were in talks to integrate the latter’s AI models, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that the iPhone maker was not…
Enterprise
TechWolf raises $43M to take an AI-sized bite out of the internal recruiting game
Ingrid Lunden
38 mins ago
TechWolf has built an AI engine that ingests data from internal workflows to learn about the people doing that work.
AI
Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code
Kyle Wiggers
12 hours ago
Emergence on Monday emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding.
AI
OpenAI buys a remote collaboration platform
Kyle Wiggers
12 hours ago
The Multi deal seems to fit into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in enterprise solutions.
AI
Google is bringing Gemini access to teens using their school accounts
Aisha Malik
14 hours ago
Google announced on Monday that it’s bringing its AI technology Gemini to teen students using their school accounts, after having already offered Geminito teens using their personal accounts. The company…
AI
Mixhalo’s latest feature uses AI to beam real-time translation to phones at events
Brian Heater
16 hours ago
Mixhalo Translate couples the startup’s ultra-low latency in-person streaming with AI-generated audio translations.
AI
What Vinod Khosla says he’s ‘worried about the most’
Connie Loizos
1 day ago
Vinod Khosla, the Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prominent investor, talks about how AI is changing tech and the risks of government regulation.
After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama 3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently only supports…
AI
Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance
Dominic-Madori Davis
1 day ago
Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance. She is known for her research and advocacy work within technology.
Featured Article
Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech.
Dominic-Madori Davis
Kyle Wiggers
2 days ago
AI
Apple might partner with Meta on AI
Anthony Ha
2 days ago
As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence earlier this month, Apple said it would be partnering with OpenAI…
Startups
How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)
Julie Bort
2 days ago
18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.
OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand.
AI
Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
Dominic-Madori Davis
2 days ago
Charlette N’Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence to tackle environmental data scarcity in Africa and the…
Featured Article
‘What’s in it for us?’ journalists ask as publications sign content deals with AI firms
Journalists understand the basic structure of the deals, but they still have questions.
Rebecca Bellan
2 days ago
Featured Article
What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?
The Open Source Initiative is trying to address the debate stirring around the notion of “open-source AI.”
Paul Sawers
3 days ago
Apps
Dot’s AI really, really wants to get to know you
Sarah Perez
3 days ago
Dot is a new AI companion and chatbot that thrives on getting to know your innermost thoughts and feelings.
AI
OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI
Kyle Wiggers
4 days ago
The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.
AI
Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI,’ say photographers
Ivan Mehta
4 days ago
Photographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users.
Fundraising
Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation
Kyle Wiggers
4 days ago
Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.
AI
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot
Ingrid Lunden
4 days ago
Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another big deal is in the works.
Robotics
Labor shortages are still fueling growth at automation firms like GrayMatter
Brian Heater
5 days ago
GrayMatter self-reports that its systems currently produce “a 2~4x improvement in production line productivity [and a] 30% or more reduction in consumable waste.”
AI
Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class
Kyle Wiggers
5 days ago
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can analyze both text and images as well as generate text, and it’s Anthropic’s best-performing model yet — at least on paper.
Apps
Pocket FM partners with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio content quickly
Ivan Mehta
5 days ago
Lightspeed Ventures-backed audio platform Pocket FM announced it has partnered with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs to quickly convert text content, such as script, into audio series using AI. Pocket FM, which…
AI
Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI
Rebecca Szkutak
5 days ago
The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. One possible…
AI
Amazon extends generative AI-powered product listings to Europe
Paul Sawers
4:31 am PDT • June 20, 2024
Amazon is bringing its generative AI listing smarts to more sellers, revealing today that those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. can now access tools designed to improve…
Crypto
Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension
Annie Njanja
Natasha Lomas
4:00 am PDT • June 20, 2024
Worldcoin — the crypto “proof of personhood” startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a…
Security
PQShield secures $37M more for ‘quantum resistant’ cryptography
Ingrid Lunden
12:22 am PDT • June 20, 2024
Malicious hacking is getting increasingly sophisticated, and that’s leading to a very clear trend in security technology. To keep people and organizations safe, security also has to continue improving. Security…
Startups
‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees
Paul Sawers
12:00 am PDT • June 20, 2024
Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup targets in-house legal teams and law firms with…
Fundraising
France leads the pack for generative AI funding in Europe
Ingrid Lunden
4:43 pm PDT • June 19, 2024
Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence — especially generative AI — is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral services like ChatGPT and billions in…
