Sometimes, a demo is all you need to understand a product. And that’s the case with Runware. If you head over to Runware’s website, enter a prompt and hit enter…

Runware uses custom hardware and advanced orchestration for fast AI inference

Numa, a startup developing AI-powered automation tech for car dealerships, has raised fresh capital in a Series B round.

Numa raises $32M to bring AI and automation to car dealerships

Microsoft has given its Copilot assistant on Windows a makeover — and a voice. Copilot can now read your screen, speak aloud, and more.

Microsoft Copilot can now read your screen, think deeply, and speak aloud to you

Microsoft is paying publishers for content as part of a new Copilot feature, Copilot Daily, that gives a spoken summary of current events.

Microsoft starts paying publishers for content surfaced by Copilot

Augmented Intelligence claims that its ‘symbolic AI’ techniques can help lead to better chatbot experiences.

Augmented Intelligence claims its AI can make chatbots more useful

ChatGPT could get more expensive to use in coming years. The New York Times, citing internal OpenAI docs, reports that OpenAI is planning to raise the price of individual ChatGPT…

OpenAI might raise the price of ChatGPT to $44 by 2029

Departures might be dominating the week’s OpenAI-related headlines. But comments on AI bias from Anna Makanju, the company’s VP of global affairs, also grabbed our attention. Makanju, speaking on a…

OpenAI’s VP of global affairs claims o1 is ‘virtually perfect’ at correcting bias, but the data doesn’t quite back that up

A company that claims its tech can “revolutionize” emergency calls has raised $27 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company, Prepared, enables 911 dispatchers to…

Prepared, which wants to ‘revolutionize’ emergency 911 calls, raises $27M

OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, left the company on Wednesday, hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing. CEO Sam…

OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit

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…

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

Meta is now allowing businesses to create ads that, when clicked, bring up a chatbot customers can speak with about common topics.

Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots

Meta is bringing a voice mode to its AI assistant, Meta AI, along with an Meta AI-powered translation feature for Instagram Reels.

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

At Meta Connect 2024, the company announced a new family of Llama models, Llama 3.2. It’s somewhat multimodal.

Meta’s Llama AI models now support images, too

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…

Salesforce snatches up Zoomin, a tool for organizing company knowledge

Microsoft today revealed Correction, a service that attempts to automatically revise AI-generated text that’s factually wrong.

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

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…

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

Like its rival, Google, Amazon has launched an AI-powered video generator — but it’s only for advertisers at the moment, and somewhat limited in what it can do. Today at…

Amazon releases a video generator — but only for ads

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…

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

LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those…

LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service

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Runway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate — the studio behind the “John Wick” and “Twilight” franchises — to train a custom video…

Generative AI startup Runway inks deal with a major Hollywood studio

AWS’ weird AI-powered keyboard experiment, DeepComposer, is no more. In a blog post today, the company announced it’s shutting down the 5-year-old DeepComposer, a physical MIDI piano and AWS service…

AWS shuts down DeepComposer, its MIDI keyboard for AI music

Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, is expanding its suite of AI tools for creators. At this year’s Snap Partner Summit in Santa Monica, California, Snap announced a new feature, Easy Lens,…

Snap’s new AI feature lets you create Snapchat Lenses by simply describing them

Google says that it plans to roll out changes to Google Search to make clearer which images in results were AI generated — or edited by AI tools. In the…

Google will begin flagging AI-generated images in Search later this year

Workday announced on Tuesday that it’s acquiring Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, for an undisclosed amount. In a statement, Terrance Wampler, group general manager at Workday, said that Evisort’s…

Workday acquires AI-powered document platform Evisort

AI is increasingly being applied to protein design, the process of creating new proteins with specific, target characteristics. Protein design’s applications are myriad, but it’s a promising way of discovering…

Arzeda is using AI to design proteins for natural sweeteners and more

Construction permitting often involves drafting lengthy applications, leading to unpredictable timelines for developers and businesses. There are tens of thousands of jurisdictions — each with their own different forms and…

GreenLite, founded by an ex-Gopuff exec, automates construction permitting

Intel has announced a key customer win and changes to its foundry business as the beleaguered chipmaker looks to execute a turnaround. Intel is taking steps to transition its chip…

Intel moves to spin out foundry business, inks AI chip deal with AWS

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the internal commission OpenAI created in May to oversee “critical” safety decisions related to the company’s projects and operations. In a blog post today,…

Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee

In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each.

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