Artificial Intelligence

Stanford biology graduate and two-time entrepreneur Cyrus Khajvandi struggled to balance scientific research with his daily workload. Khajvandi developed an AI platform to summarize and answer questions about documents, particularly scientific studies, after realizing he wasn’t alone and AI technology was becoming more accessible. Former Labelbox founder Dan Rasmuson became …

Spotify may soon add AI-powered playlists to its app after the success of its AI-powered DJ feature and AI-translated podcasts. According to app code, the company may be developing generative AI playlists users can create with prompts. Tech veteran-turned-investor Chris Messina post screenshots of Spotify app code referring to “AI …

Visa announced today that it will invest $100 million in generative AI companies “that will impact the future of commerce and payments.” Visa Ventures, the card company’s 16-year-old global corporate investment arm, will make the investments. Visa calls itself a “pioneer of AI use in payments” since 1993. Generative AI …

On Wednesday, Reddit announced it was updating its privacy settings in an effort to standardize ad personalization and account visibility controls. Specifically, it’s doing away with the option to disable ad personalization based on users’ Reddit behavior. Unnamed “select countries” will still have the option to opt out, the company …

Data meshes have been discussed for some time. Data can be accessed without first being moved to a data lake, which is a large-scale central repository, or a data warehouse, which is an enterprise system used for analyzing data from a variety of sources. Big names in the industry like …

On Wednesday, Adobe released Photoshop for the web to everyone subscribed to a paid Adobe Creative Cloud plan. Firefly-powered AI tools like generative fill and generative expand are now available in the web beta after almost two years of development. The firm claimed that the web-based toolbar’s tools are organized …

While API access may be the norm for the most popular language models, open models (in the broadest sense of the term) are increasingly in demand. French artificial intelligence startup Mistral, which raised a sizable seed round in June, has just released its first model, which it claims outperforms others …

Another EU privacy investigation is underway for OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative AI chatbot. ChatGPT and OpenAI were accused of violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in Poland last month. Polish authorities made an unusual public announcement yesterday to confirm an investigation. In a press release, the Office for Personal Data …

While publishing a storage bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords. Cloud security startup Wiz told it found Microsoft’s AI research division’s GitHub repository while investigating accidental cloud data exposure. Open source code and …

It’s Wednesday, and Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have had a terrible week. The SEC charged the Hollywood power couple’s NFT-based web series, “Stoner Cats,” with unregistered securities. The SEC states, “Stoner Cats is an adult animated television show about house cats that become sentient after being exposed to their …