Palantir and BP have extended their decade-long collaboration with a new five-year agreement to enhance BP's oil and gas production operations with the safe deployment of large language models, to optimize performance and support decision-making across BP's global assets.
CardiaTec, a company using computational methods to study cardiovascular disease, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to build the world's first proprietary human heart tissue multi-omics dataset and advance its drug development pipeline.
AI-powered bookkeeping startup Finally has raised $200 million in funding to expand its all-in-one financial management platform for small and mid-sized businesses.
Capsa AI, a startup founded less than a year ago, has raised £1.7m in seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform that streamlines due diligence processes for private equity firms. The Capsa AI platform has demonstrated significant time savings for early adopters.
Games studio Lightspeed L.A. and 80 video games have agreed to SAG-AFTRA's tiered and interim agreements including AI protections for talent, demonstrating that the union's proposed terms are reasonable and achievable.
IdentifAI raised a €2.2M seed funding round; Skillvue secured $2.8M; ChatGPT is coming to Volkswagen cars in the US; Root Signals secured $2.8M; Anthropic launched a plan for enterprise users; Sakana AI secured a Series A and a partnership with NVIDIA; and much more
01.ai has released Yi-Coder, an open-source large language model for coding tasks that, despite its relatively small size (1.5B and 9B parameters), outperforms larger models in various benchmarks and excels in various code-related tasks and program-aided mathematical reasoning.
Microsoft is intensifying efforts to combat non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated deepfakes, by partnering with StopNCII for detection in Bing.
Google has introduced new AI-powered features for Photos, including an improved search function and the Gemini-powered "Ask Photos" feature for US users. Google also updated its virtual try-on tool to include dresses, enhancing photo organization and online shopping experiences.
YouTube is developing new AI technologies, including synthetic-singing identification and AI-generated face detection, to protect creators and artists while promoting responsible AI use, emphasizing that AI should enhance human creativity rather than replace it.
All Hands AI has raised $5 million in seed funding to develop OpenHands: an open-source, AI-powered software development agent that autonomously solves end-to-end tasks, which has already gained significant traction in GitHub.
The Council of Europe has developed and opened signatures on an international AI safety treaty to establish responsible AI development and use principles. The treaty's negotiations involved member, observer, and non-member states, and global representatives from various sectors in its creation.