The EU plans to let startups train AI models on its HPC supercomputers. Startups seeking access to the EU’s high-power compute resource, which includes pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers, must join its AI governance program. In May, the EU announced a plan for a stop-gap set of voluntary rules or standards …
Read More »OpenAI opens first EU office to prepare for regulations
OpenAI will open its first EU office and make several strategic hires to prepare for regulatory headwinds. After opening offices in San Francisco and London in June, ChatGPT plans to open its third office in Ireland, which has become a second home for many U.S. tech companies seeking to connect …
Read More »Salesforce launches Einstein Copilot Studio for AI customization
Salesforce introduced Einstein Copilot Studio at Dreamforce in San Francisco today to customize Salesforce’s base Einstein GPT and Copilot offerings. Clara Shih, Salesforce AI CEO, says Einstein Copilot Studio has prompt, skills, and model builders. Shih told , “The first piece is the prompt builder, and this is for customers …
Read More »Telegram launches a global self-custodial crypto wallet, excluding the US
Telegram, with 800 million monthly users, is launching a self-custodial crypto wallet. The move will solidify its presence in the vibrant crypto community that has grown from its chat platform and may attract more people to crypto. Telegram and TON Foundation announced TON Space, a self-custodial wallet, on Wednesday at …
Read More »AuthMind secures identity seed funding. SecOps platform
AuthMind, a Maryland startup that protects businesses from identity-related cyberattacks, raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by Ballistic Ventures and IBM Ventures. CEO Shlomi Yanai and CTO Ankur Panchbudhe founded the company. They founded and sold several security startups before launching AuthMind in 2020. AuthMind is their attempt …
Read More »Einstein Copilot integrates conversational AI into Salesforce
Salesforce introduced Einstein in 2016 to provide predictive AI services across its products. Just months after ChatGPT, OpenAI introduced Einstein GPT to allow natural language software questions across the platform in March. At the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco today, the company introduced Einstein Copilot, which embeds this ability …
Read More »Updated interior seen in Cybertruck
The summer of 2023 is almost over, and we have no Cybertruck. But a serendipitous visit to a San Francisco parking lot yielded new images of the unreleased polygonal electric truck. Tesla watchers The Kilowatts posted new interior photos of Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Fingerprints? On this blocky buggy’s exterior? Fingerprints. …
Read More »Musk limited Ukraine’s Starlink to prevent Russia attack
Elon Musk said he canceled a Ukrainian military strike on Russia by refusing to use Starlink. The billionaire claims the decision was made to avoid being “complicit in a major act of war,” but it raises serious questions about oligarchs’ military roles. CNN reported it, citing Walter Isaacson’s upcoming Musk …
Read More »NASA leases Relativity Space historic test stand for Terran R development
Today, Relativity Space announced it would lease a historic first-stage test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center to advance Terran R launch vehicle development. NASA will lease the A-2 Test Stand to Relativity for seven years for $2.76 million. The company can renew the lease for 10 years. The investment …
Read More »Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually
Artists will be among the many groups affected by AI in the coming years, but not everyone. A group of artists wrote an open letter to Congress arguing that generative AI isn’t bad and that the creative community should be involved in regulating and defining the technology. The full letter …
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