UK-based Hey Savi has secured £2.2 million in pre-seed funding to revolutionize online fashion shopping with its AI-powered search and recommendation platform, connecting users to their desired fashion items within 60 seconds.
Mobile gaming startup Grand Games has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to revolutionize the industry with AI-powered game development, enabling faster creation and iteration of games while focusing on player engagement through social and luck-based features.
LegalFly, a legal AI platform founded by ex-Tinder experts, has secured €15 million in Series A funding to expand its secure, AI-powered legal services for enterprises, building on its rapid growth and partnerships with major firms in the €884 billion legal services market.
Deezer and YouTube are testing AI-powered features for playlist creation and music discovery, including text prompt-based playlist generation and sound-based search capabilities.
The European Commission found X in breach of the DSA; Microsoft is stepping down from its seat on OpenAI's board; SoftBank acquired Graphcore; AMD acquired Silo AI; Captions and DreamFlare AI secured funding rounds; Anthropic launched advanced prompt evaluation tools; and much more.
AWS and Workday have expanded their partnership to develop generative AI capabilities, enhance native integrations for custom applications, and collaborate on market initiatives, aiming to accelerate cloud transformation and improve enterprise productivity and decision-making for their customers.
Amazon has launched Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant, to all US customers in its mobile app. Rufus offers personalized product recommendations, comparisons, and shopping advice powered by a specialized large language model trained on Amazon's catalog and web-sourced information.
HERO Software, an AI-powered platform initially created to combat climate change, has raised €40 million in Series B funding to expand its comprehensive workflow management solution for tradespeople across Europe.
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings alleging that X (formerly Twitter) is in breach of the Digital Services Act, potentially leading to significant fines and required corrective measures if confirmed.
Germany-based defense AI startup Helsing has raised €450 million in a Series C funding round led by General Catalyst, which it plans to use for product development, R&D, and expansion into the Baltic region, highlighting its mission to enhance European defense capabilities through AI technology.
SoftBank Group Corp has acquired UK-based AI chipmaker Graphcore for an undisclosed amount, potentially rescuing the company from financial difficulties and allowing it to continue developing its alternative to NVIDIA's dominant GPU technology, while maintaining its operations and workforce.
AWS has introduced App Studio, a generative AI-powered service that eliminates the learning curve to low-code tools to enable professionals with some technical expertise to create, manage, and deploy generative AI applications.