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Sam Altman reportedly poised to get equity in OpenAI for the first time

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Following the abrupt departure of OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati, CEO Sam Altman is reportedly poised to receive equity in the company for the first time as OpenAI moves away from its longstanding nonprofit structure. Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that OpenAI plans to restructure into a for-profit benefit corporation — similar to […]

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Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots

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At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, Meta announced that it’s expanding its AI-powered business chatbots using click-to-message ads on WhatsApp and Messenger in English. Now, businesses can set up ad-embedded chatbots that talk to customers, offer support, and facilitate orders, Meta says. “From answering common customer questions to discussing

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Meta AI gets lip-synced translations and celebrity voices, like Judi Dench and John Cena

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Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts. At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, Meta announced that Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud across platforms where it’s available: Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Facebook. You can choose from several voices,

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Salesforce snatches up Zoomin, a tool for organizing company knowledge

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Salesforce is on a buying spree. After snatching up data management firm Own earlier in the month, Salesforce today announced its plans to buy Zoomin, an enterprise knowledge platform. Zoomin — which we’ve covered a handful of times before — unifies a company’s docs, like product user guides and tutorials, in one portal. The terms

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Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution

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AI is a notorious liar, and Microsoft now says it has a fix for that. Understandably, that’s going to raise some eyebrows, but there’s reason to be skeptical. Microsoft today revealed Correction, a service that attempts to automatically revise AI-generated text that’s factually wrong. Correction first flags text that may be erroneous — say, a

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Torq, which automates cybersecurity workflows, raises $70M in new capital

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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 security automation technology this year; most cited the tech’s potential to support cyber threat mitigation. Projections say that the market

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Fal.ai, which hosts media-generating AI models, raises $23M from a16z and others

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Fal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it’s raised $23 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Black Forest Labs co-founder Robin Rombach, and Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. It’s a two-round deal. $14 million of Fal’s total came from a Series A tranche led by Kindred Ventures.

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