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Waabi is taking generative AI into the physical world with autonomous long-haul trucks

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This week on Found, we’re diving into the future of trucking with Raquel Urtasun, CEO and co-founder of Wabi, a company pioneering driverless, long-haul trucks powered by generative AI. Hosts Dominic-Madori Davis and Becca Szkutak learn about Waabi’s unique simulation-based training and how this approach is intended to minimize mistakes once the massive trucks hit […]

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Here’s how to create a custom emoji with the Apple Intelligence feature ‘Genmoji’

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Apple’s latest iOS 18.1 software updates introduced a series of Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and notification summaries. However, some features were missing from the lineup, like Genmoji, which allows users to create emojis from written prompts.  Now, with iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 public betas officially available, the highly anticipated

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Generative AI startup Writer raises $200M at a $1.9B valuation

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Writer has raised $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation to expand its enterprise-focused generative AI platform. The round — a Series C — was co-led by Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, B Capital, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Workday Ventures. Writer CEO May Habib says

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Amazon attempts to lure AI researchers with $110M in grants and credits

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There’s an AI chip battle brewing among the major cloud vendors. Google’s Trillium, a custom chip for training and running AI models, recently entered preview, and Microsoft’s Maia is expected to follow in short order. Not to be outdone, Amazon Web Services has AI chips, too: Trainium, Inferentia, and Graviton. In an effort to draw

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General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures back data mapping startup Lume

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Data integration is a necessary part of many workflows from onboarding customer data to exercising payroll, but for many data sets the process is long and manual. Data is siloed into databases and SaaS applications that each keep the information in different formats, which makes it difficult to move information from one database to another.

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From self-driving cars to AI that writes enterprise software: Cogna founder raises $15M

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A founder who was an early mover in the race to build autonomous vehicles has raised $15 million for his next act: a startup that claims its AI can write enterprise software on its own. Cogna — as the U.K.-based startup is called — is led by Ben Peters, the technical co-founder of FiveAI (the

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a16z VC Martin Casado explains why so many AI regulations are so wrong

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The problem with most attempts at regulating AI so far is that lawmakers are focusing on some mythical future AI experience, instead of truly understanding the new risks AI actually introduces. So argued Andreessen Horowitz general partner VC Martin Casado to a standing-room crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 last week. Casado, who leads a16z’s $1.25

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OpenAI reportedly developing new strategies to deal with AI improvement slowdown

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OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information. Employees who tested the new model, code-named Orion, reportedly found that even though its performance exceeds OpenAI’s existing models, there was less improvement than they’d seen in the jump from GPT-3 to

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