December 20, 2024

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…

Potential ‘meme stock’ Reddit to raise ~$748M in IPO, to let Redditors sell shares immediately

March 11, 2024

Reddit’s IPO should be interesting to watch — and not just because the business remains unprofitable, but also because of how the company has chosen to bring in its community of active users and moderators into its public markets debut. In a new SEC filing, Reddit says it’s planning to sell around 22 million shares, priced […]

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The Download: rise of the multimodal robots, and the SEC’s new climate rules

March 11, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans The news: In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its mulrobotics team, announcing that progress was being…

An OpenAI spinoff has built an AI model that helps robots learn tasks like humans

March 11, 2024
In the summer of 2021, OpenAI quietly shuttered its robotics team, announcing that progress was being stifled by a lack of data necessary to train robots in how to move and reason using artificial intelligence.  Now three of OpenAI’s early research scientists say the startup they spun off in 2017, called Covariant, has solved that…

Top 4 Air Defense Stocks to Eye for Growth

March 11, 2024
With escalating geopolitical instability driving the spending levels of economies, backed by rapid technological adoption among industry players, the air/defense industry’s prospects appear promising. Hence, investors could consider buying top…

Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year

March 11, 2024

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the company expects to hit profitability next year with eyes on going public in the future. The chat app, which crossed 900 million users, is making “hundreds of millions of dollars” through ads and subscriptions, Durov told the Financial Times in an interview. He mentioned that while global investors […]

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Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots

March 11, 2024

Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the cofounder and CEO of the U.C. Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “is basically a large language model (LLM), but for robot language.” RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a massive trove of data collected from […]

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EU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules

March 11, 2024

A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software. Announcing its decision in a press release today, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) said the Commission infringed “several key data protection rules when using Microsoft […]

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SuperAGI snags funding from Jan Koum’s Newlands VC to fuel its full-stack AGI ambitions

March 11, 2024

SuperAGI wants to build a full-stack Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) platform based on Large Agentic Models (LAMs) — seen by some as the next stage in development for Large Language Models. Now, with its research picking up traction with some 20,000 developers — including people at Microsoft, Google, Tencent, Tesla and JP Morgan Chase and OpenAI […]

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