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Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The “autonomous navigation” market — where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to $5.33 billion in 2024 alone. Orca AI is a London-based startup that claims to have […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Will Gain ‘Personal Assistant’ and Custom Agent Capabilities
Other announcements included a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows, GitHub Copilot Extensions and the general availability of Azure AI Studio.
A community collaboration for progress
Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.
Google Gemini Cheat Sheet (Formerly Google Bard): What Is Google Gemini, and How Does It Work?
Everything you need to know to get started with Gemini, Google’s generative AI.
New AI accurately predicts fly behavior
Researchers trained an AI model to accurately predict male fruit flies' courtship behavior in response to any sight of a female. This breakthrough offers new insight into how the brain processes visual data and may someday pave the way for artificial vision technology.
2024 MAD Design Fellows announced
The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute.
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs, New Surface Laptops and More Pre-Build 2024 Announcements
During a keynote event, Microsoft also announced more AI-related news, including AI-optimized creative apps and that GPT-4o will be available soon on Copilot.
World leaders still need to wake up to AI risks
Leading AI scientists are calling for stronger action on AI risks from world leaders, warning that progress has been insufficient since the first AI Safety Summit six months ago. Then, the world's leaders pledged to govern AI responsibly. However, twenty-five of the world's leading AI scientists say not enough is actually being done to protect us from the technology's risks.
Dell AI Laptops Will Be Powered By Next-Gen Qualcomm Processors
Five new laptops use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series processor to run AI. Dell AI offerings expand with NVIDIA, Hugging Face and others.
Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine
Welcome to Startups Weekly! We've been drowning in AI news this week, with Google's I/O setting the pace. And Elon Musk rages against the machine. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
9 out of 10 UK Business Leaders Suffer From Tech Anxiety That Disrupts Their Sleep, BT Study Finds
BT estimates that "tech paralysis" — where companies delay tech investment due to the stress it might bring — could cost the U.K. economy £11.79 billion by 2030.
New AI tool to help beat brain tumors
A new AI tool to more quickly and accurately classify brain tumors has been developed.
U.K.’s AI Safety Institute Launches Open-Source Testing Platform
Inspect is the first AI safety testing platform created by a state-backed body to be made freely available to the global AI community.
Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution
At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company made its case to developers – and to some extent, consumers –  why its bets on AI are ahead of rivals. At the event, the company unveiled a revamped AI-powered search engine, an AI model with an expanded context window of 2 million tokens, AI helpers across its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Cisco’s Splunk Acquisition Should Help Security Pros See Threats Sooner in Australia and New Zealand
Cisco’s Splunk acquisition was finalised in March 2024. Splunk’s Craig Bates says the combined offering could enhance observability and put data to work for security professionals in an age of AI threat defence.
Scale Your Social Channels With This $50 App
Join more than 20 million users leveraging UNUM to schedule, manage and automatically scale their social media channels, from Instagram to YouTube.
Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics
A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.
Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs
The AI industry moves faster than the rest of the technology sector, which means it outpaces the federal government by several orders of magnitude. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms
While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI. The challenges are many. But a commonly recurring one is data management. The data that companies need to train, run and fine-tune AI models is disorganized, siloed, and otherwise unoptimized. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google Search’s AI Summaries Are Generally Available This Week
Plus, Google reveals plans to unleash Gemini across Workspace to make interpreting long email threads or creating spreadsheets easier.
