IT総合 Google releases tech to watermark AI-generated text
Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by genera...
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IT総合 IT総合 Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy
Character.AI is being targeted in a lawsuit after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became o...
IT総合 Fixify blends automation and human analysts to tackle IT problems
Matt Peters has spent more than a decade working for cybersecurity vendors. He was a team lead at Check Point, climbed t...
IT総合 OpenAI hires its first chief economist
OpenAI has hired its first chief economist: Aaron Chatterji, formerly the chief economist at the Commerce Department und...
IT総合 The U.S. AI Safety Institute stands on shaky ground
One of the only U.S. government offices dedicated to assessing AI safety is in danger of being dismantled if Congress do...
IT総合 Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC
Anthropic has released an updated version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model with a new Computer Use feature that can intera...
IT総合 Interface.ai raises $30M to help banks field customer requests
Interface.ai, a customer automation platform for banks and other financial institutions, today announced that it closed ...
IT総合 Socket lands a fresh $40M to scan software for security flaws
The software supply chain, which comprises the components and processes used to develop software, has become precarious....
IT総合 CrewAI uses third-party models to automate business tasks
Back in 2022, João Moura was directing AI engineering efforts at Clearbit, a startup creating a unified hub for business...
IT総合 xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, launches an API
In August, Elon Musk’s xAI promised to make Grok, the company’s flagship generative AI model powering a numb...
IT総合 Investments in generative AI startups topped $3.9B in Q3 2024
Not everyone is convinced of generative AI’s return on investment. But many investors are, judging by the latest f...
IT総合 Midjourney plans to let anyone on the web edit images with AI
Midjourney is planning to release an upgraded web tool that’ll let users edit any uploaded images from the web usi...
IT総合 Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI
Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. The...
IT総合 Microsoft could end up with substantial equity in the restructured, for-profit OpenAI
How much equity in OpenAI will Microsoft get once the former becomes a for-profit company? That’s the multi-billio...
IT総合 Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’
This week, OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting it...
IT総合 ChatGPT comes to Windows
ChatGPT is now on Windows. Today, OpenAI announced that it’s begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT,...
IT総合 Subscription management firm Zuora agrees to be acquired for $1.7B
Zuora, a company selling software to help businesses manage their subscription-based services, has agreed to be acquired...
IT総合 Apple reportedly worked with a Chinese automaker to develop a battery for its now-canceled car
Apple worked with a Chinese automaker for years to design a battery system for its now-canceled car project. That’...
IT総合 This Week in AI: AWS loses a top AI exec
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IT総合 The FTC makes it easier to cancel subscriptions like gym memberships
Soon, it’ll be easier to end recurring subscriptions and memberships — if the FTC has its way. Today, the U.S. Fed...
IT総合 Mistral releases new AI models optimized for laptops and phones
French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops a...
IT総合 Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions
David Karandish has been busy. Capacity, his support automation company, was planning a $5 million “bridge round&#...
IT総合 Former Palantir CISO Dane Stuckey joins OpenAI to lead security
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI...
IT総合 Amplitude buys Command AI to bolster its app engagement offerings
Amplitude, a publicly-traded company that makes digital analytics software, has acquired Command AI, an app user engagem...
IT総合 Xscape is building multicolor lasers to connect chips within datacenters
The GPUs and other chips used to train AI communicate with each other inside datacenters through “interconnects.&#...
IT総合 Port is building internal tool hubs for devs
Port, a platform designed to centralize multiple dev tools and workflows in a single dashboard, has raised $35 million i...
IT総合 Concourse is building AI to automate financial tasks
In a typical organization, finance is one of the most important functions. Yet teams are often bogged down by manual wor...
IT総合 The promise and perils of synthetic data
Is it possible for an AI to be trained just on data generated by another AI? It might sound like a harebrained idea. But...
IT総合 Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants you to know he’s not an AI “doomer.” At least, that’s my read o...
IT総合 HubSpot acquires Cacheflow, a platform that helps close software sales
HubSpot has acquired Cacheflow, a startup building tools for the software sales closing process, for an undisclosed amou...