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Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts (t.co)
2024-8-10 Microsoft AI

[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill (x.com)
2024-8-10 AI California

DevRev, which develops AI tools to improve the efficiency of employees on support, product, and engineering teams, raised $100M at a $1.15B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-8-10 AI

The Literacy Pen: A clip-on, AI gadget that can help low-literacy adults with spelling (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-9 AI

Perplexity says its AI search engine answered ~250M queries in July vs. 500M in all of 2023; sources: Perplexity recently raised $250M at a $3B valuation (t.co)
2024-8-9 AI

Apple may choose to charge users $20 to access premium AI features (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-9 AI Apple

X agrees to not use some EU user data to train AI chatbot (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-9 AI chatbot

Permalink to Data scientists and developers need a better working relationship for AI (sdtimes.com)
2024-8-9 Programmer AI

UK Regulator To Examine $4 Billion Amazon Investment In AI Startup Anthropic (news.slashdot.org)
2024-8-9 Amazon Startup AI

Sources: enterprise AI company Glean is in advanced talks to raise $250M led by DST Global at a $4.5B valuation, about double its valuation from February 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-9 AI

SoundHound acquires Amelia, which makes an AI agent that businesses can customize for internal or customer use, for $80M; PitchBook: Amelia raised $189M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-9 AI

Microsoft and Palantir partner to sell government cloud and AI tools, including GPT-4, to US defense and intel agencies; Palantir will integrate with Azure (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-8-8 Microsoft Intel AI

AI chipmaker Black Sesame drops as much as 35% on its Hong Kong trading debut, after pricing shares at the bottom of its range and raising ~$133M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-8-8 Hong Kong IPO AI

A look at AI age scanners, which websites use to verify a person's age by analyzing their facial patterns via webcam to help safeguard kids online (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-8-8 AI

After AI, Quantum Computing Eyes Its 'Sputnik' Moment (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-8-8 AI Quantum

Ireland's DPC launches High Court proceedings against X over concerns about the company's use of user data in the EU and EEA to train AI systems including Grok (www.rte.ie)
2024-8-8 AI Ireland

AI Is Coming for India's Famous Tech Hub (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-8-8 India AI

Sources: Humane's Ai Pin and accessories have brought in $9M+ in sales, and $1M+ worth of product has been returned; ~7,000 Ai Pins are still in customer hands (www.theverge.com)
2024-8-8 AI

Reddit CEO Teases AI Search Features and Paid Subreddits (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-8-8 AI Reddit

X faces legal action in EU for processing user data to train its AI chatbot Grok without consent (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-7 AI chatbot

Automattic launches Write Brief with AI, to help users write and tweak content using text prompts, in beta on Jetpack, after launching an AI assistant in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 AI

Meta AI on Instagram: How to use it and what it can do? (indianexpress.com)
2024-8-7 AI Instagram

AI threatens to upend India's $250B outsourcing industry, as companies plan to automate BPO; HSBC says 80%+ of the S&P 500 outsource some operations to India (www.wsj.com)
2024-8-7 India AI HSBC

A profile of Yang Zhilin, the founder and CEO of China's highest-valued AI unicorn Moonshot, who studied at Carnegie Mellon University and worked at Huawei (www.scmp.com)
2024-8-7 China AI

Division in Hollywood's approach to AI is growing, as some studios want to use AI tools more often in production, while unions aim to establish guardrails (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2024-8-7 AI

KNIME, an open-source data science and AI platform used by AMD, Audi, and ~400 other customers, raised $30M from Invus, taking its total funding to $50M (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 AI Data Science AMD

California's AI safety bill will harm developers, open-source development, the public sector, and academia, while failing to address the potential harms of AI (fortune.com)
2024-8-7 AI California

Reddit says it plans to test AI-powered search result pages later this year, using a combination of first- and third-party tech to power the feature (techcrunch.com)
2024-8-7 AI Reddit

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-8-7 Facebook AI

AI complacency is compromising Western security (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2024-8-7 AI

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