Arcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI

January 24, 2024

While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to use closed-source AI APIs due to the perceived lack of transparency — but also resisted open source models over security concerns. “We came to realize that the primary challenge was overcoming […]

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Google announces new AI-powered features for education

January 24, 2024

Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom assignment. The company said that soon, AI […]

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The Download: how China’s regulating robotaxis

January 24, 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. How China is regulating robotaxis Not many technologies have had such a roller-coaster ride in the past year as robotaxis. In just a few months they went from San Francisco’s new darling to…

EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups

January 24, 2024

European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of support measures aimed at charging up homegrown AI startups and scale ups. Artificial intelligence technologies — and especially generative AI models which are trained on very large data-sets and have capabilities such as being […]

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Spotify teases in-app purchases for EU iPhone users ahead of incoming DMA regulation

January 24, 2024

Spotify is gearing up to test Apple’s response to new European regulations designed to prevent so-called digital “gatekeepers” from engaging in anticompetitive practices. The music-streaming giant has shared a bunch of mockups to illustrate what its iPhone and iPad app could soon look like, including information about pricing, subscription offers and in-app payments for iOS […]

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Surprise Reason Behind Stock Breakout?

January 24, 2024
Why is the S&P 500 (SPY) making new highs? And what is the outlook for stocks coming into the quite important 1/31 Fed meeting? Investment pro Steve Reitmeister shares his…

Energy Gains This Week: 3 Stocks Making Waves

January 24, 2024
The energy industry’s outlook appears robust, buoyed by increased global energy requirements driven by population growth, industrialization, and economic development. Given this backdrop, fundamentally strong energy stocks Cheniere Energy Partners,…