At its Snap Partner Summit, Snap announced new generative AI features, including Easy Lens for text-based AR creation, AI-powered prebuilt Lenses, and expanded My AI capabilities. These tools aim to enhance content creation and user interaction on Snapchat through generative AI technology.
Google is adopting the C2PA technology alongside its existing SynthID watermarking, integrating it into Search and Ads products, exploring implementation in YouTube, and encouraging industry-wide adoption of content provenance standards.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.