September 2023

Zapier launches Canvas, an AI-powered flowchart tool

September 28, 2023
Zapier today announced the launch of Canvas, a new tool that aims to help its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes — with a fair bit of AI sprinkled in there to help them turn those processes into Zapier-based automations. Canvas is now in early access. In addition, the company also today announced that […]

Apron grabs $15 million to simplify invoice processing

September 28, 2023
London-based startup Apron announced that it has raised a $15 million funding round in a Series A funding led by Index Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners and Visionaries Club also participating. The company wants to help small companies when it comes to processing invoices. Apron is specifically targeting small companies that don’t have a finance […]

Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers

September 28, 2023
Google is opening up its generative AI search experience to teenagers, the company announced on Thursday. The company is also introducing a new feature to add context to the content that users see, along with an update to help train the search experience’s AI model to better detect false or offensive queries. The AI-powered search […]

Norway seeks to extend ban on Meta’s consentless tracking ads across the EU

September 28, 2023
Norway’s data protection authority has asked a European Union regulator to take a binding decision on whether its emergency sanction on Facebook and Instagram tracking and profiling users for ad targeting without their consent should be made permanent and applied across the EU single market, not just locally. The move could lead to a blanket […]

Taking off? Continuous feedback platforms that keep bad results from AI-created code from making it into production

September 28, 2023
If you haven’t noticed, a growing amount of code that’s being generated today is “AI-assisted.” In fact, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI, estimated back in March that upwards of 40% the code that developers were uploading to the AI developer tool GitHub Copilot was both “AI-generated and unmodified.” Now, the […]