June 16, 2025

How AI can help make cities work better for residents

In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and…

November 2023

Fakespot Chat, Mozilla’s first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot

November 8, 2023

Earlier this year, Mozilla acquired Fakespot, a startup that leverages AI and machine learning to identify fake and deceptive product reviews. Now, Mozilla is launching its first LLM (large language model) with the arrival of Fakespot Chat, an AI agent that will help consumers as they shop online by answering questions about the product or […]

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New pre-seed funds are popping up everywhere

November 8, 2023

There seems to be quite a bit of movement in the pre-seed stage, so is that why we now seeing some VC firms closing new funds?

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Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models

November 8, 2023

AI startup Hugging Face offers a wide range of data science hosting and development tools, including a GitHub-like portal for AI code repositories, models and data sets, as well as web dashboards to demo AI-powered applications. But some of Hugging Face’s most impressive — and capable —  tools these days come from a two-person team […]

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Google’s AI-powered search experience expands globally to 120+ countries and territories

November 8, 2023

Google’s AI-powered search experience is rolling out worldwide, after initial launches in select markets including the U.S., India, and Japan. Starting today, the AI-based conversational experience known as SGE, or Search Generative Experience, will be available in over 120 new countries and territories, globally. It will also support four new languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, and […]

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Stablecoin company Circle going public makes good sense

November 8, 2023

It may seem incongruous to see Circle considering going public during a crypto winter, but the IPO does not come as a massive surprise given its source of revenue.

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