IT総合 Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft
Decart, an Israeli AI company that emerged from stealth today with $21 million in funding from Sequoia and Oren Zeev, ha...
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IT総合 IT総合 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company’s products
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the compa...
IT総合 Meta is making a robot hand that can ‘feel’ touch
Meta says it’s partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commer...
IT総合 OpenAI launches its Google challenger, ChatGPT Search
OpenAI’s Google challenger is finally here. The company on Thursday launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the S...
IT総合 Claude gets desktop apps and dictation support
Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps. Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windo...
IT総合 Noma is building tools to spot security issues with AI apps
Companies are concerned that their eagerness to adopt AI has made them more vulnerable to cyberthreats. Per a recent pol...
IT総合 Perplexity’s CEO punts on defining ‘plagiarism’
Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, wouldn’t say how Perplexity defines “plagiarism” in an on st...
IT総合 AI models get more election questions wrong when asked in Spanish, study shows
AI models are struggling to accurately answer election-related questions in Spanish. That’s according to a new stu...
IT総合 This Week in AI: A preview of Disrupt 2024’s stacked AI panels
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IT総合 Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff
Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitio...
IT総合 Regal claims its customer service chatbots are better than most
People are generally skeptical of customer service chatbots, and many outright despise them. In a recent Gartner survey,...
IT総合 Google says its next-gen AI agents won’t launch until 2025 at the earliest
Google won’t ship tech from Project Astra, its wide-ranging effort to build AI apps and “agents” for real-time, mu...
IT総合 OpenAI reportedly planning to build its first AI chip in 2026
OpenAI is reportedly working with TSMC and Broadcom to build an in-house AI chip — and beginning to use AMD chips alongs...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly trying to raise billions more
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation around $40 billion, according to The ...
IT総合 ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, a reader app
Generative AI audio company ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, an open source read-it-later app. In a blog p...
IT総合 CTGT aims to make AI models safer
Growing up as an immigrant, Cyril Gorlla taught himself how to code — and practiced as if a man possessed. “I aced...
IT総合 U.S. finalizing rules to ban certain investments in AI tech in China
President Joe Biden’s administration says it’s finalizing rules to curb investments in AI and other tech sec...
IT総合 Bret Taylor’s customer service AI startup just raised $175M
Sierra, the AI startup co-founded by OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor, has raised $175 million in a funding round that values...
IT総合 What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?
World models, also known as world simulators, are being touted by some as the next big thing in AI. AI pioneer Fei-Fei L...
IT総合 We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI
There’s finally an “official” definition of open source AI. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-r...
IT総合 Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator
Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s Noteboo...
IT総合 OpenAI says it won’t release a model called Orion this year
OpenAI says that it doesn’t intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting ...
IT総合 Perplexity says it’s now serving 100M search queries a week
Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries ea...
IT総合 Elon Musk reportedly chats often with Putin
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin since late 2022. That&#...
IT総合 Anthropic’s AI can now run and write code
Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool th...
IT総合 Concentric helps companies keep track of their sensitive data
Enterprises have a data inventory problem. The amount of data they’re collecting and storing is increasing, and th...
IT総合 White House memo calls for agencies to protect AI from foreign adversaries
President Joe Biden on Thursday is expected to sign a memorandum detailing how intelligence and national security agenci...
IT総合 Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash
Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten...
IT総合 Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI
Miles Brundage, a longtime policy researcher at OpenAI and senior advisor to the company’s AGI readiness team, has...
IT総合 This Week in AI: The AI agents cometh
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