AI-powered finances and bookkeeping platform finally raised a $200M Series B
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.
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Capsa AI secured £1.7M to transform private equity due diligence with AI
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.
Discover Upcoming Week's AI Events with Data Phoenix Calendar (September 9th)
Explore this week's AI events with Data Phoenix! Discover top conferences, meetups, and webinars happening now. Expand your skills, connect with peers, and stay ahead in AI. Don't miss out!
The SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike scored two major victories this week
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.
This Week in AI: September 2–8
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's Yi-Coder delivers state-of-the-art coding performance in a small, open-source package
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 will partner with StopNCII to tackle the non-consensual spread of intimate images
Microsoft is intensifying efforts to combat non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated deepfakes, by partnering with StopNCII for detection in Bing.
Google announced early access for the Ask Photos feature and updated its virtual try-on tool
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.
New YouTube tools to protect creators' and public figures' likenesses
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 secures $5M in seed to boost its open-source AI software development agent
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 opened a first-ever international legally binding AI safety treaty for signatures
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.
Through several initiatives, the Cosmos Institute will ensure AI aligns with human flourishing
The Cosmos Institute, a multidisciplinary initiative at the intersection of philosophy and AI, promotes a balanced approach to AI development through four key programs: the HAI Lab at Oxford, a fellowship program, a grants program, and educational offerings.