YouTube announced new video creation features for creators, using its Veo 3 video generation model, integrating generative AI deeper into the massive video platform. YouTube creators are now able to use Veo 3 to generate YouTube Shorts videos from a text prompt in the United States, United ... Read more âș
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Navan is planning to reveal on Friday its securities filing for an initial public offering, two people with direct knowledge of the deal said, marking one of the final steps toward a long awaited listing for the travel software startup. The startup has confidentially submitted its IPO plans in ... Read more âș
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OpenAI said on Tuesday that it would add restrictions to its chatbot for users under 18, such as refusing to flirt or talk about suicide even in hypothetical or creative-writing contexts. If an under-18 user is sharing thoughts of suicide, OpenAI said it will attempt to contact the usersâ ... Read more âș
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As new artificial intelligence flooded the software market over the past few years, CEOs of incumbents such as Salesforce and Microsoft said they were in pole position to capitalize on the wave.They already have relationships with the largest companies in the world, which rely on their apps as systems of record, meaning they use them to hold valuable data like customer information or sales forecasts. Adding AI features to those... Read more âș
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Anthropic, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers are sending large language models to the office. The AI models are being taught how to use everything from Salesforceâs customer relationship management software to Zendeskâs customer support and Cernerâs health records apps. The idea is to teach AI how to handle some of the complicated tasks white-collar workers do. Read more âș
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Human resources software maker Workday has agreed to acquire Sana, a Stockholm-based startup developing enterprise AI agents, for $1.1 billion, the company announced Tuesday. This is Workdayâs latest effort to expand its AI agent offerings. In August, it has agreed to buy Paradox, another ... Read more âș
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Artificial intelligence has already altered wide swaths of our world. As for the parts that it hasnât changedâwell, it sorta seems inevitable that the technology will reorder them, too. The Informationâs Weekend section wants to add a columnist who will explore and explain this disruption. They should have a wide interest in the technology and a deep desire to play around with it. One week, for instance, they might detail... Read more âș
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Public interest in ChatGPT's impact on society is rising fast, especially given recent high-profile lawsuits filed by family members of people who used the chatbot before taking their own life. On Monday, OpenAI opened the chabot's kimono a little bit, with a new study showing exactly how users are using ChatGPT.  Notably, non-work usage of ChatGPT dominates; between last June and this June, non-work-related queries have exploded from 53% to... Read more âș
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Wall Street is turning to life insurance capital to meet artificial intelligenceâs insatiable funding needs, melding the AI boom with a fast growing source of assets for the biggest private equity firms. Apollo Global Management, one of the largest asset managers, recently bought Texas-based Stream Data Centers, which is targeting the big cloud and AI developers known as hyperscalers. Once the deal is finalized, Apollo executives see an opportunity to... Read more âș
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A Chinese government official said the U.S. and China have reached consensus on TikTokâs U.S. operations that include licensing of ByteDanceâs algorithms and other intellectual property rights. Wang Jingtao, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said the Chinese government â ... Read more âș
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Cloud security startup Netskope late Monday increased the price range of its planned initial public offering to $17 to $19 per share from $15 to $17, according to two people with direct knowledge of the plans. The range means it could sell as much as $908.2 million in the listing. The increased ... Read more âș
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Imagine a world where companies report earnings only twice a year, instead of every quarter. As John Lennon put it, âyou may say Iâm a dreamer, but Iâm not the only one.â Donald Trump reminded us on Monday that he is a big proponent of switching to a half-yearly corporate reporting cadence, away from the quarterly one. His pitch is that doing so would encourage companies to focus on the... Read more âș
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Microsoft said Monday it will raise its quarterly dividend to 91 cents per share, up from 83 cents, beginning in December. The company previously raised its dividend by 10% a year ago, when it simultaneously announced a $60 billion share buyback. Microsoftâs stock was flat in after hours trading ... Read more âș
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Meta Platforms seems to have jumped the gun on its latest hardware news. Metaâs YouTube channel published a video showing a new version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses with a display and a wristband for controlling the device, UploadVR reported on Monday. The video, which was quickly removed from ... Read more âș
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Online brokerage app Robinhood said Monday it plans to launch a fund that will allow retail investors to get access to private companies before they go public, pending regulatory approval. Robinhood Ventures Fund has filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to register the ... Read more âș
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Fast-growing crypto exchange Hyperliquidâs users voted Sunday to select Native Markets, a startup that partners with Stripe-owned stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge, to issue its upcoming stablecoin USDH after a bidding war. Given the scale of Hyperliquid, the vote has the potential to ... Read more âș
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Googleâs parent Alphabet became a $3 trillion company on Monday, joining Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple in that category. Shares of Google rose 4.5% to $251, giving the company a market capitalization of $3.04Â trillion. The rally, part of a broader upswing in the market likely spurred by ... Read more âș
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Nvidia agreed to purchase $6.3 billion of cloud computing capacity from CoreWeave, the latest example of the chip company striking a deal to rent its own chips from a third-party cloud business. Under the agreement, Nvidia will purchase cloud capacity that CoreWeave isnât able to sell to other ... Read more âș
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On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Office 365 Copilot, the version of Microsoftâs flagship software that comes with artificial intelligence features. And more than a year ago, Informatica did test out Office 365 Copilot for a handful of its employees, according to CIO Graeme Thompson. But Thompson... Read more âș
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These days, artificial intelligence developers, investors and founders are all obsessed with âreinforcement learning,â a method for improving AI by rewarding it for accomplishing certain goals and penalizing it for other behaviors.Investors tell me that theyâre getting pitched on dozens of RL-related startups per week, ranging from those building simulations of real apps for models to learn how to use to those aiming to help businesses specialize models on their... Read more âș
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