Generative AI

AI business agent startup Bardeen pulls in strategic investment from Dropbox and Hubspot

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Every day, employees across the world spend incalculable hours performing tediously repetitive tasks, such as, for example, converting documents into PDFs and then uploading them to a drive, from where it’s sucked into a database and emailed to a team. While UiPath helped pioneer this kind of ‘robotic’ process, it’s also pivoted to an AI-driven mode […]

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Mechanical Orchard, led by ex-Pivotal CEO, scores $50 million round led by Alphabet’s GV

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Digital transformation — the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows — can be a risky undertaking. In 2023, Harvard Business Review reported that while 89% of large companies have a digital and AI transformation underway, they’ve only captured 31% of the expected revenue uplift and 25% of anticipated

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Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation

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Grok, not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million, spread false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter penned by five secretaries of state and addressed to Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO

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OpenAI tempers expectations with less bombastic, GPT-5-less DevDay this fall

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Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store. This year will be a quieter affair, however. On Monday, OpenAI said it’s changing the format of its DevDay conference from a tentpole event into

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YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts

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A YouTube creator is seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company trained its generative AI models on millions of transcripts from YouTube videos without notifying or compensating the videos’ owners. In a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys for David

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Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations

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Despite increasing demand for AI safety and accountability, today’s tests and benchmarks may fall short, according to a new report. Generative AI models — models that can analyze and output text, images, music, videos and so on — are coming under increased scrutiny for their tendency to make mistakes and generally behave unpredictably. Now, organizations

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