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Ai Pin maker Humane demos AI software for cars, phones and smart speakers

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When Humane released its Ai Pin, the San Francisco-based gadget maker envisioned a world with dedicated AI devices — something that you would carry with you in addition to the smartphone in your pocket. However, reviews and sales haven’t been great — returns reportedly begun to outpace unit sales at one point. And Humane recently dropped […]

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OpenAI inks deal to upgrade Anduril’s anti-drone tech

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OpenAI plans to team up with Anduril, the defense startup, to supply its AI tech to systems the U.S. military uses to counter drone attacks. The Wall Street Journal reports that Anduril will incorporate OpenAI tech into software that assesses and tracks unmanned aircraft. Anduril tells the publication that OpenAI’s models could improve the accuracy

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LLMs may have a killer enterprise app: ‘digital labor’ — at least if Salesforce AgentForce is any indicator

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If Don Draper from “Mad Men” Don Draper was quintessentially, at his deepest self, an ad man, then Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is likewise a sales guy. Lately he’s been selling – or more like singing the gospel – about AI agents and Salesforce’s recently released agent-maker platform, AgentForce. It’s true that Benioff famously gets

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See Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs generate 3D environments from a single picture

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World Labs has announced a new AI feature that turns 2D images into tiny worlds. This tool, the first from Fei-Fei Li’s highly hyped startup, takes a prompt or 2D reference image and spits out a fully navigable 3D environment.  By generating in 3D, World Labs can avoid some of the the control and consistency

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AWS brings third-party apps to its SageMaker AI platform

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SageMaker has long been AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training and deploying machine learning and generative AI models. Over time, however, an ecosystem of applications has sprung up around AI and ML models for performing tasks like managing experiments, evaluating model quality and security. Those always lived outside of SageMaker and had to be

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DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games

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DeepMind, Google’s AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds. Called Genie 2, the model — the successor to DeepMind’s Genie, which was released earlier this year — can generate an interactive, real-time scene from a single image and text description (e.g. “A cute humanoid robot

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LatAm startup Vambe sees ARR skyrocket after pivot to conversational AI

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When Nicolás Camhi, Matías Pérez Pefaur and Diego Chahuán (pictured above, left to right) launched Vambe last year, they were building a CRM for debt collection. But despite gaining traction, they soon realized that their customers were not as interested in their debt collection product as the WhatsApp AI agents Vambe had built to facilitate

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Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform

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A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses compile their open-source AI infrastructure and reduce their engineering overheads. Cake integrates and secures more than 100 components for enterprises, including data source adapters (e.g. Apache Hadoop), data ingestion (e.g. Apache Kafka), data labelling (e.g. Label Studio),

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‘Surreal Elderhood’ using OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora

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Katsukokoiso.AI is a project from professional photographer Eugenio Marongiu, an alpha tester on OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora. Marongiu used the unreleased Sora model to create a piece titled “Surreal Elderhood,” which aims to balance absurdity and striking realism. Earlier users of Sora pointed out the system can be tricky to work with and can’t be

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