machine learning

Cala Systems’ water heater pairs an advanced heat pump with an AI-powered control system to forecast hot water demand.

AI-powered water heater could banish cold showers and carbon pollution

Whether it’s an online marketplace, store or social media platform, virtually every site today uses some kind of recommendation service to personalize its offerings. Shaped, which is announcing an $8…

Shaped raises $8M Series A and launches its self-serve recommendations and search service

In 1816, French physician René Laennec invented an instrument that allowed doctors to listen to the heart and lungs. That device — a stethoscope — eventually evolved from a simple…

Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart and lung disease earlier and more accurately

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which…

Machine learning aids in discovery of sperm whale ‘alphabet’
AI

Too many models

How many AI models is too many? It depends on how you look at it, but 10 a week is probably a bit much. That’s roughly how many we’ve seen…

Too many models

AI might be the “it thing” of the moment. But that doesn’t mean it’s getting easier to deploy. According to a 2023 S&P Global survey, about half of companies with…

Pienso builds no-code tools for training AI models

Homomorphic encryption, a complex technique that uses cryptographic algorithms to keep data secure as it travels around networks and to third parties, continues to elude mass-market scalability and thus adoption…

Zama’s homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M

Hundreds in the artificial intelligence community have signed an open letter calling for strict regulation of AI-generated impersonations, or deepfakes. While this is unlikely to spur real legislation (despite the…

Hundreds of AI luminaries sign letter calling for anti-deepfake legislation

The House of Representatives has founded a Task Force on artificial intelligence that will “ensure America continues leading in this strategic area,” as Speaker Mike Johnson put it. But the…

House punts on AI with directionless new task force

When Anomalo’s co-founders left Instacart in 2018, they thought they could put machine learning to work to solve data-quality problems inherent in large datasets. Five years later, the company’s idea…

Anomalo’s machine learning approach to data quality is growing like gangbusters

There are ways companies can better understand their customers’ pain points to develop the right products that solve the right problems at the right time.

4 startup fundamentals to help avoid epic product fails

Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash. The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage…

Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads

As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone,…

‘Animate Anyone’ heralds the approach of full-motion deepfakes

Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment. The company exited stealth…

Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding

Has OpenAI invented an AI technology with the potential to “threaten humanity”? From some of the recent headlines, you might be inclined to think so. Reuters and The Information first…

Contrary to reports, OpenAI probably isn’t building humanity-threatening AI

Blackshark.ai has already made a digital twin of the Earth, and its next play further democratizes the hitherto lofty (if you will) world of geospatial intelligence. Continuing the nautical theme,…

Blackshark.ai’s Orca Huntr lets you build orbital intelligence models with a scribble

Machine learning models are taking over in the field of weather forecasting, from a quick “how long will this rain last” to a 10-day outlook, all the way out to…

Courtesy of AI: Weather forecasts for the hour, the week and the century

AI startup Hugging Face offers a wide range of data science hosting and development tools, including a GitHub-like portal for AI code repositories, models and datasets, as well as web…

Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models

There’s been a bit of FUD around the decision to use a form of AI to resurrect John Lennon’s voice in what Paul McCartney called “the last Beatles record.” What…

Don’t be afraid of the ‘AI-assisted’ Beatles song, ‘Now And Then’

Sure, AI can write sonnets and do a passable Homer Simpson Nirvana cover. But if anyone is going to welcome our new techno-overlords, they’ll need to be capable of something…

Embodied AI spins a pen and helps clean the living room in new research

Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run…

Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models

Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker…

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’

From its prominence in the tech world, you might think that everyone on the planet is using ChatGPT or some other AI tool for everything from automating their job to…

Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT

As Amazon’s Prime Video gears up for its second year as the exclusive rights holder to NFL’s Thursday Night Football (TNF), the streaming service hopes to give fans a more…

Amazon brings new AI-driven features to Thursday Night Football

Modular, a startup creating a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, has raised $100 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from GV (Google Ventures),…

Modular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models

AI startup Hugging Face has raised $235 million in a Series D funding round, as first reported by The Information, then seemingly verified by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on X…

Hugging Face raises $235M from investors, including Salesforce and Nvidia

We all learned the importance of ‘showing our work’ in elementary school, and we can certainly demand that same rigor from AI.

Making AI trustworthy: Can we overcome black-box hallucinations?

YouTube announced a new experiment on Android devices that determines a song via humming — which seems like a major step up from Apple’s music recognition app Shazam. As noted on YouTube’s…

YouTube tests a search feature where users hum to identify songs

The customer data platform provides a central place to collect first-party information about customers, but simply having a pile of data is not the point. Companies want to put it…

Twilio Segment teams with Amazon SageMaker on new customer predictions product

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Age of AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence

AI is appearing in seemingly every corner of modern life, from music and media to business and productivity, even dating. There’s so much it can be hard to keep up — so read on to find out everything from the latest big developments to the terms and companies you need…

Age of AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence