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Eppo lands new cash to grow its app, website and AI experimentation business

The AI industry continues to release tons of new models, and companies looking to stay competitive are racing to adopt them for their purposes. In fact, nearly 10% of businesses plan to spend a whopping $25 million this year on AI initiatives, according to tech consulting firm Searce. But while lots of money is being […]

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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products powering various capabilities in Microsoft software and services, like summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams. That’s in addition to Microsoft-owned GitHub Copilot tool for generating

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Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch

All generative AI models hallucinate, from Google’s Gemini to Anthropic’s Claude to the latest stealth release of OpenAI’s GPT-4o. The models are unreliable narrators in other words — sometimes to hilarious effect, other times problematically so. But not all models make things up at the same rate. And the kinds of mistruths they spout depend

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This Week in AI: AI isn’t world-ending — but it’s still plenty harmful

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, a new study shows that generative AI really isn’t all that harmful — at least not in the apocalyptic sense. In a paper submitted to the Association for Computational Linguistics’ annual conference, researchers from the University of Bath and University of Darmstadt argue

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EliseAI lands $75M for chatbots that help property managers deal with renters

EliseAI, a company developing a suite of AI-powered property management tools for landlords, has raised $75 million in a Series D round that values the startup at $1 billion. EliseAI is the brainchild of co-founder and CEO Minna Song, who met the company’s second co-founder, Tony Stoyanov, while the two were undergraduate students at Cambridge.

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Made by Google 2024: A few AI features you might’ve missed

Google’s annual Made by Google hardware event was held earlier Tuesday, and because the company announced so much stuff, a lot got lost in the shuffle. We rounded up some of the more intriguing AI-related announcements that didn’t get a ton of play, like the image-generating Pixel Studio and Pixel Screenshots, which helps save and

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Gemini Live, Google’s answer to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, launches

Gemini Live, Google’s answer to the recently launched (in limited alpha) Advanced Voice Mode for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is rolling out on Tuesday, months after being announced at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference. It was announced at Google’s Made by Google 2024 event. Gemini Live lets users have “in-depth” voice chats with Gemini, Google’s generative AI-powered

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