Category: AI

1. United Airlines uses AI technology to coordinate flight operations, provide updates through text messages and its app, and enhance customer service. 2. The company’s CIO, Jason Birnbaum, oversees a large team responsible for implementing technology that optimizes cloud usage, enhances reliability, and streamlines operations. 3. United is exploring various uses for AI, including generating…

1. AI taught robots how to play soccer 2. Udio turned everyone into a “musician” 3. AI is advancing rapidly, requiring new ways to measure it This week in AI news, robots were taught how to play soccer and Udio turned everyone into a musician. The advancements in AI are progressing so rapidly that new…

– NVIDIA’s stock tumbled by 10%, erasing over $200 billion from its market valuation – S&P 500 dropped by 0.9%, Nasdaq Composite dropped by 2.1% – Other major tech companies saw their shares fall, analysts suggest retraction from “AI stocks” is a recalibration of risk ahead of uncertain earnings forecasts In a volatile day for…

– OpenAI is expanding to Japan with a new Tokyo office and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized for the Japanese language – The move signifies the company’s focus on localizing its technology and understanding regulatory landscapes in different countries – OpenAI faces competition in Japan from SoftBank’s SB Intuitions, and aims to capitalize on…

1. The Limitless Pendant is a new AI-powered wearable designed to enhance video calls and meetings by recording conversations and suggesting action items. 2. The device prioritizes privacy by ensuring data is anonymized and stored securely, and requires consent from others before recording their end of a conversation. 3. The Pendant is available for preorder…

– U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive raised £9.5 million in a seed round to expand AI-driven services for small law firms – Lawhive targets small law firms and solo lawyers with its AI software for document summarization and automating repetitive tasks – The startup plans to enter new markets with the funding, led by GV,…

1. Adobe is developing an AI model for video generation but hasn’t provided a launch date or many details. 2. The model will be integrated into Premiere Pro, offering features like object addition, object removal, and generative extend. 3. Adobe is exploring collaborations with third-party vendors like OpenAI to enhance its video generation capabilities but…

1. OpenAI releasing videos made by its AI text-to-video generator Sora 2. Videos mainly around 10 to 25 seconds featuring historical footage, paper airplanes, and cute animals 3. Impressive Sora videos include city dogs, cat on the hunt, wooly mammoths, paws that paint, curious chameleon, bunny rabbits, and hybrid animals, lacking audio in most clips…

– Tech layoffs in 2022 and 2023 led to many recruiters being laid off, prompting them to start their own businesses in recruitment. – Paraform, a recruitment platform for startups, raised a $3.6 million seed round to tap into the pool of laid-off recruiters and help startups source talent. – The company plans to expand…

1. BigQuery allows analysis of data using large language models like Gemini 1.0 Pro, Pro Vision, and text-bison. 2. Model fine-tuning in BigQuery is needed for scenarios where additional customization is required, such as defining behavior or updating with new information. 3. Supervised fine-tuning in BigQuery uses a dataset with input text and ideal output…