Atlassian has launched Rovo AI, a suite of AI-powered productivity tools including Rovo Search, Rovo Chat, and Rovo Agents, while also introducing new AI features across its platform, including enhancements to Jira and Loom.
OpenAI and Hearst have confirmed an agreement to give OpenAI access to Hearst's archive of US-based newspapers and magazine editions, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, and Runner's World.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for designing novel proteins from scratch and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for developing AlphaFold, an AI system that can accurately predict protein structures.
Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking work in neural networks. Hopfield and Hinton's research contributed to some of the most important advances in machine learning.
Raspberry Pi offers a new AI camera; OpenAI raised $6.6B, held its developer conference and launched canvas; Pika 1.5's Pikaffects bring the fun to AI video generation; Meta previewed Movie Gen; Microsoft updated Copilot; YOLOv11 is out; and more.
Google is expanding Lens with new features including video analysis, voice commands, and enhanced shopping capabilities, while also introducing ad integrations to the latter. In parallel, the company is cautiously testing offering shopping ads within relevant AI Overviews.
Meta has unveiled Movie Gen, a comprehensive AI system that can generate, edit, and personalize videos with matching audio using simple text prompts, marking a significant advancement in AI-powered content creation tools.
AI inference startup Runware has raised $3M in funding while launching the world's fastest media generation API, offering sub-second image generation through sustainable data centers powered by renewable energy at industry-leading low costs.
Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses feature allows real-time AI analysis of what users are seeing, but raises privacy concerns as it continuously uploads image streams to Meta's servers for AI training without providing users a way to opt out of data collection.
OpenAI has launched "canvas," a new beta workspace feature for ChatGPT that allows users to collaborate on writing and coding projects through a dedicated interface with specialized tools.
AI startup poolside has secured $500 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures to develop advanced AI systems for software development, leveraging its proprietary Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback technology.
OpenAI has secured $6.6 billion in new funding at a $157 billion valuation, plus a $4 billion credit facility from major banks, which the company claims will give it "the flexibility to invest in new initiatives and operate with full agility as [it] scale[s]."