Bluesky deploys major improvements to policy and community guidelines
Two years after its launch, social network Bluesky has revised its community guidelines and other policies, seeking feedback from users on some changes. The startup, a competitor of X, threads and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policy aims to improve clarity and detail about user safety procedures and appeal processes. Many of the […]
Cohere reaches a $6.8 billion valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia and Salesforce doubled
Cohere announced Thursday it raised an oversubscribed round of $500 million and raised its valuation to $6.8 billion. This rose from the $5.5 billion valuation that landed about a year ago, and rose by $500 million when it raised the previous round. Toronto-Headquarted Cohere was one of the first breakout LLM model manufacturers founded in […]
Leaked Meta AI Rules indicate that chatbots are allowed to have romantic chats with children
Reuters reports that concerns about generic LLM chatbots like chatgpt grow like chatgpt grow each day, and chatbot personas seem to be generating answers that disseminate frivolous exchanges, false information and undermine minorities. According to an internal meta document seen by Reuters, Meta had a policy regarding the behavior of AI chatbots that allowed AI […]
Buzzy AI Startup Multiverse creates two smallest high performance models so far
One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two very small AI models. Multiverse computing claims that they are still high performance and are the smallest models in the world that can handle chat, speech, and even in one case. These new little models are intended to be embedded in Internet of Things devices […]
Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, causing competition to heat up
On Thursday, Google announced a search tool powered by new AI to help travelers find travel deals. Called the Flight Deal, this new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheap fares. Users can enter natural language queries into the search bar (describe how and when they want […]
AI translation technology Palabra receives support from the venture company co-founder of Reddit
A startup called Palabra AI, which develops an AI-powered voice translation engine, is tackling one of the more difficult aspects of teaching large-scale language models (LLMs) to understand multiple languages. Today, LLM makes text easier to convert from one language to another, but according to Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, speech translation is not that […]
Cohere hires longtime metal research head Joelle Pineau as the best AI executive
Investors once poured around $1 billion into CEO Aidan Gomez as a promising candidate for Canadian AI startups to challenge Openai and humanity in the race to build frontier AI models. However, Cohere’s AI model has fallen to the forefront and its business has not expanded like its competitors. Now, the company is inviting veteran […]
Apple’s blood oxygen monitoring returns to the latest Apple Watches
On Thursday, Apple announced it will introduce redesigned blood oxygen capabilities for the Watch Series 8, Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra. With this move, Apple is regaining blood oxygen monitoring by tweaking functionality to avoid the International Trade Commission (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data is measured and calculated on the user’s pair of […]
Airbnb allows users to book their stays without advance payment
Airbnb has launched a new feature called “Reserve Now, Pay Later.” This allows US users to book their property without paying in advance. This may result in the hassle of canceling your reservation if your plans change. This feature can be applied to properties with “flexible” or “medium” cancellation policies. Flexible policies allow users to […]
Elon Musk’s Xai co-founder leaves the company
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s Xai startup, resigned from the company on Wednesday at Xa’s Engineering Engineering Team post, building the startup a few years after being founded into one of the leading AI model developers in Silicon Valley. “Today was my last day at Xai, helping me get started with Elon Musk in […]