OpenAI has recently acquired Roi, a personal finance application powered by AI. This acquisition is aligned with OpenAI’s strategy to enhance personalized consumer AI. Only Roi’s CEO, Sujith Vishwajith, will transition to OpenAI, while the rest of the small team will see their roles phased out, with operations set to cease on October 15. Vishwajith […]
Anthropic has appointed Rahul Patil as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO), succeeding co-founder Sam McCandlish, who transitions to the role of chief architect. Patil began his tenure at Anthropic earlier this week and will oversee key areas including compute, infrastructure, inference, and a variety of engineering tasks. The restructuring of Anthropic’s technical group aims […]
A recent study by MIT highlights the cognitive effects of using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT on human brain activity. The research indicated that participants using these AI tools exhibited decreased mental engagement, which persisted long after the initial use of the technology. The study involved a small cohort of subjects tasked with writing […]
Periodic Labs, founded by Ekin Dogus Cubuk and Liam Fedus, has emerged from stealth mode with an impressive seed funding round of $300 million. This funding has come from a prestigious group of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others. Cubuk, formerly with Google Brain and DeepMind, led efforts in AI projects such […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially signed SB 53, a groundbreaking bill that introduces unprecedented transparency requirements for large AI companies. This legislation, the first of its kind in the United States, mandates that major AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind, disclose their safety protocols. Passed by the state legislature two weeks […]
Manny Medina, renowned as the founder of sales automation platform Outreach, has successfully attracted significant funding for his latest venture, Paid. The startup raised $21.6 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Lightspeed while building upon an earlier pre-seed round of €10 million raised in March. With this new funding, Paid has amassed a […]
Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking method for exposing privacy vulnerabilities in AI models, known as CAMIA (Context-Aware Membership Inference Attack). This approach, developed by experts from Brave and the National University of Singapore, significantly surpasses prior techniques in revealing whether specific data was utilized during the training of AI systems. Concerns regarding "data memorisation" in […]
Silicon Valley has recently made headlines with significant investments in AI infrastructure, particularly involving major players like Nvidia and OpenAI. Nvidia announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, which in turn disclosed its intentions to develop five new Stargate AI data centers in collaboration with Oracle and Softbank. This expansion aims to […]
Samsung is addressing the limitations of existing benchmarks for evaluating the real-world productivity of enterprise AI models with the introduction of a new system called TRUEBench. Developed by Samsung Research, TRUEBench aims to bridge the gap between theoretical AI performance and its practical utility in workplace settings. As organizations increasingly adopt large language models (LLMs) […]
The retail sector has rapidly adopted generative AI technologies, with a striking increase from 73% to 95% of organizations utilizing these applications in just one year, according to cybersecurity firm Netskope. However, this boom in AI usage comes at a significant cost—heightened security risks. The report mentions that while retailers embrace generative AI, they simultaneously […]