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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 and phones. The new family of models, which Mistral is calling “Les Ministraux,” can be used or tuned for a variety of applications, from basic text generation to working in conjunction with more capable models […]

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Fable adds cognitive and hearing impairments to its accessibility tools with $25M round

Fable has gained a reputation as the go-to startup for helping companies build digital products that are more accessible to people with disabilities. After raising $25 million in new funding, the Toronto-based startup is now expanding the communities it supports and working to make AI training data more inclusive. Fable started in 2020 as a

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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 head of security Matt Knight. Stuckey announced the move in a post on X Tuesday evening. “Security is germane to OpenAI’s mission,” he said. “It is critical we meet the highest standards for compliance, trust, and

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How Tesla’s plans for ‘unsupervised FSD’ and robotaxis could run into red tape

During Tesla’s much-hyped robotaxi reveal event last week, CEO Elon Musk said he expects Tesla to release an “unsupervised” version of FSD, the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system, in Texas and California in 2025 on certain Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.  He also said Tesla would begin production on its robotaxis – which are

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The New York Times has had it with generative AI companies using its content 

The New York Times sent a cease and desist letter demanding that Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity stop accessing and using its content in AI summaries and other output. The Wall Street Journal reviewed the document.  The letter argues that Perplexity has been “unjustly enriched” by using the publisher’s “expressive, carefully written and researched, and edited journalism

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Adobe’s Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos

Creating engaging videos isn’t only about the visuals. So much of the appeal of good video content is about the audio, but finding (or maybe even creating) the right audio effects can be a time-consuming process. At its annual Max conference, Adobe is showing off Project Super Sonic, an experimental prototype demo that shows how

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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.” But those interconnects have limited bandwidth, which limits AI training performance. A 2022 survey found that AI developers typically struggle to use more than 25% of a GPU’s capacity. One solution could be new interconnects with much higher

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Gladia believes real-time processing is the next frontier of audio transcription APIs

French startup Gladia, which offers a speech-recognition application programming interface (API), has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round. Essentially, Gladia’s API lets you turn any audio file into text with a high level of accuracy and low turnaround time. While Amazon, Microsoft and Google all offer speech-to-text APIs as part of their

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Nvidia, the AI chipmaker, just hit another record high

Nvidia shares hit a record high on Monday, closing at $138.07 as Wall Street anticipates earnings updates from Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon on their AI infrastructure spending. The stock’s climb has been stupefying — surging nearly 180% this year, following a rapid climb last year; it’s also a reflection of Nvidia’s renowned stronghold on

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