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OpenAI scored a strategic partnership with News Corp
News Corp and OpenAI announced a pioneering multi-year partnership that provides OpenAI access to News Corp's global news content and journalistic expertise, enabling OpenAI to deliver AI-enhanced access to journalistic content that upholds the highest standards of world-class journalism.
May 25, 2024
Neuralink recently got approval to implant its chip in a second patient
Neuralink has received FDA approval to implant its brain-computer interface device in a second human participant after resolving an issue where most of the ultrathin wires in its first participant became dislodged, with a key fix being to embed the wires deeper into the brain's motor cortex.
May 25, 2024
AISI finds leading LLMs are still vulnerable to jailbreaking
The AI Safety Institute recently released the results from its evaluations of five publicly available LLMs. Tested models can provide expert-like chemistry and biology knowledge, struggle with cybersecurity and agentic tasks, and worryingly, remain highly vulnerable to simple jailbreaking attacks.
May 25, 2024
Paris-based startup H raised $220M to build AI agents in the race towards AGI
H, formerly Holistic AI, raised a $220M seed round to develop multi-agent AI. Backed by billionaires like Eric Schmidt, top VCs like Accel, and companies like Amazon, H plans to buy massive computing power to train large AI models quickly and pursue various markets.
May 25, 2024
Pixevia secured €1.5M to expand the presence of its smart stores
Pixevia, a Lithuanian startup offering an AI-powered platform for a full suite of retail applications, has raised €1.5M to fuel its expansion in the US and Europe.
May 25, 2024
Stack AI raised $3M to connect the latest AI innovations with the most urgent applications
Y Combinator-backed Stack AI recently announced the closing of its oversubscribed $3 million seed funding round, led by Gradient Ventures. Stack AI will leverage the raised funds to become the go-to platform for deploying AI solutions.
May 24, 2024
Pinecone's serverless vector database is generally available on AWS
Pinecone serverless is now generally available on AWS. Four months into the public preview launch, Pinecone serverless has enabled over 20,000 companies to build fast, accurate, cost-effective generative AI. Pinecone also launched the Private Endpoints for AWS PrivateLink public preview.
May 24, 2024
Scale has raised $1B to secure data abundance for AI
Scale has announced it closed a $1 billion Series F round. The Series F was led by existing investor Accel, with participation from existing and new investors. The funds will be used so Scale's data foundry can accelerate the abundance of frontier data required by current AI demands.
May 24, 2024
The European Union's AI Act has finally crossed the finish line
The European Council has approved the AI Act, which will establish comprehensive, risk-based rules governing the development and use of artificial intelligence systems across the EU, aiming to ensure AI is safe and trustworthy while protecting fundamental rights and promoting innovation.
May 23, 2024
OpenAI shared more about how it cast ChatGPT's voices
As OpenAI prepares to launch a new, GPT-4o powered Voice Mode for ChatGPT, the company has decided to share some insights into the casting process behind Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper, and Sky, the voices that have come to characterize ChatGPT.
May 22, 2024
Slack seems to have sneakily opted-in its customers to AI training
Slack faced backlash after a user figured that Slack's Privacy Principles allowed analyzing customer data for non-generative AI models. This led to confusion surrounding Slack's user privacy policies, especially considering Slack now offers an LLM-powered service, Slack AI.
May 22, 2024
This Week in AI: May 16–20
OpenAI scores yet another data licensing deal; highlights from Google's I/O 2024; Claude 3 is finally available in Europe; Sony Music Group has opted out of all present and future unauthorized data mining attempts; Researchers are helping AI master sarcasm; and more.
May 20, 2024