#SeoTips Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday hinted at an improved, “agentic” version of the company’s Alexa assistant — one that could take actions on a user’s behalf. “I think that the next generation of these assistants and generative AI applicati...

#SeoTips Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, wouldn’t say how Perplexity defines “plagiarism” in an on stage interview with Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2024 conference. It’s a touchy subject. News Corp’s Dow Jones and the New York Post h...

#SeoTips Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.” In a letter to staff, Houston said that the reduction in headcount would impact 528 people. The goal, he added, ...

#SeoTips Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can g...

#SeoTips Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries each week. Extrapolated out to a month, that’s roughly 400 million queries — up from 250 million queries in July. Perplex...

#SeoTips Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 months. Headwinds have only grown stronger ...

#SeoTips Matt Peters has spent more than a decade working for cybersecurity vendors. He was a team lead at Check Point, climbed the corporate ladder to VP of worldwide operations at FireEye, and spent over four years at Expel, a managed detection a...

#SeoTips One of the only U.S. government offices dedicated to assessing AI safety is in danger of being dismantled if Congress doesn’t choose to authorize it. The U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI), a federal government body that studies risks in AI s...

#SeoTips Anthropic, the AI vendor second in size only to OpenAI, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges...

#SeoTips Not everyone is convinced of generative AI’s return on investment. But many investors are, judging by the latest figures from funding tracker PitchBook. In Q3 2024, VCs invested $3.9 billion in generative AI startups across 206 deals, per ...

#SeoTips French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones. The new family of models, which Mistral is calling “Les Ministraux,” can be used or tuned for a variety of a...

#SeoTips As the demand for AI surges, AI vendors are devoting greater bandwidth to data security issues. Not only are they being compelled to comply with emerging data privacy regulations (e.g. the EU Data Act), but they’re finding themselves under...

#SeoTips Distributional, an AI testing platform founded by Intel’s former GM of AI software, Scott Clark, has closed a $19 million Series A funding round led by Two Sigma Ventures. Clark says that Distributional was inspired by the AI testing probl...

#SeoTips Google is rolling out a redesigned AI Overviews experience — with ads — and expanding its test of AI-organized results pages. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Kyle Wiggers, Khare...

#SeoTips Augmented Intelligence claims that its 'symbolic AI' techniques can help lead to better chatbot experiences. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Kyle Wiggers, Khareem Sudlow ...

#SeoTips A company that claims its tech can “revolutionize” emergency calls has raised $27 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company, Prepared, enables 911 dispatchers to get a caller’s real-time GPS location if their phon...

#SeoTips OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, left the company on Wednesday, hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing. CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post ...

#SeoTips As the volume of cyberattacks grows, there’s increasing interest from the corporate sector in tech to help automate responses to breaches. Per a 2023 survey from analytics firm Devo, 80% of security leaders expected expanded investments in...

#SeoTips Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal. Today, Amazon announced that Prime custo...

#SeoTips Runway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate—the studio behind the “John Wick” and “Twilight” franchises—to train a custom video model on Lionsgate’s movie catalog. Lionsgate ...