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Slack plans to transform into the go-to hub for working with AI agents
At Dreamforce, Salesforce introduced Agentforce, a platform for building custom AI agents, and showcased Slack's evolution into an AI agent hub with features like AI-generated huddle notes, conversational Workflow Builder, enhanced search, and seamless integration with third-party AI applications.
Sep 19, 2024
Intel's plan to consolidate its chip foundry includes a strategic partnership with AWS
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced significant developments for the company, including a $3 billion Secure Enclave award, an expanded partnership with AWS for custom chip manufacturing, restructuring of Intel's Foundry as an independent subsidiary, and strategic pauses in European facilities.
Sep 18, 2024
Supermaven has raised $12M to take its coding assistant to the next level
Supermaven, a startup founded by Tabnine creator Jacob Jackson, raised $12 million in funding. Supermaven plans to create a proprietary text editor to overcome the limitations of editor extensions.
Sep 18, 2024
Weekly AI Highlights Review: September 9–17
Sam Altman stepped down from OpenAI's Security Committee; Meta will resume AI training in the UK; OpenAI launched o1; Bookkeeping platform finally raised $200M; Palantir and BP announced a 5-year strategic partnership; Pixtral 12B is Mistral AI's first open-source multimodal model; and more
Sep 17, 2024
World Labs has emerged from stealth with $230 million to unlock spatial reasoning for AI
Fei-Fei Li's AI startup World Labs, backed by $230 million in funding and reportedly valued at over $1 billion, is developing large world models to enable AI systems to reason about the physical world, with applications in design, gaming, visual effects, and potentially robotics.
Sep 16, 2024
Meta detailed its plans to train its models on UK adult users' public content
Meta is resuming training its AI models using public data from UK-based, adult Facebook and Instagram users. The company acknowledged the support of the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office, which accepted Meta's alleged 'legitimate interest' as a legal basis for its data collection practices.
Sep 16, 2024
Meta is relocating the AI info label in AI-edited or modified images
Meta has updated its AI labeling approach, distinguishing between AI-generated and AI-edited content by making the label less prominent for edited content and relocating it to the post's menu. However, concerns remain about the potential misinterpretation of heavily manipulated images.
Sep 15, 2024
The White House secured AI industry voluntary commitments against image-based sexual abuse
The Biden-Harris Administration has secured voluntary commitments from major AI companies to combat AI-generated image-based sexual abuse through responsible data sourcing, safeguards in development processes, and dataset modifications.
Sep 14, 2024
Osavul raised €2.78M ($3M) to bring its information security platform to the private sector
Osavul, a Kyiv-based media intelligence company founded in response to the Russian Invasion and using AI to counter information warfare, has secured €2.78M in funding from 42CAP, u.ventures, and SMRK to expand globally, develop its algorithms, and offer B2B solutions.
Sep 14, 2024
Purple Transform raised £4.5 million to make railway lines safer with the help of AI
AI data analytics startup Purple Transform has raised £4.5 million to expand its AI-powered railway safety system. The system has shown significant results in incident reduction. As a result, Purple Transform will leverage the funds to expand its operations.
Sep 14, 2024
Tem secured $13.7M to disrupt the renewable energy market with AI
London-based startup Tem has raised $13.7 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered marketplace that directly connects businesses with renewable energy sources, potentially reducing costs by up to 25% and disrupting the traditional utility model.
Sep 14, 2024
Google is the latest LLM developer under scrutiny by the Irish Data Protection Commission
The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Google should have conducted a Data Protection Impact Assessment before processing European users' data to train PaLM 2, the precursor to Gemini AI models.
Sep 13, 2024