The streaming platformTwitchwill nowuse creators’ contentto help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon. This move has inspired swift and concentrated backlash from the Twitch community, especially because creators are opted in to having their content used for this AI training by default. For Amazon, these stream recordings are incredibly valuable, offering thousands … Devamını oku

Cognition, makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about raising another funding round with a big leap in valuation, after it raised $1 billion at a$26 billon valuationin May. This new round could deliver at least a $40 billion valuation based on achieving a $1 billion annualized revenue run … Devamını oku

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital. Thrive Holdings is akin to a private equity firm for AI, buying traditional businesses like accounting firms and implementing AI into their workflows. So far, Thrive has focused on accounting and … Devamını oku

As projects like Pacing the Frontier look to major labs as a way to keep AI research safe, open-source models have becomea sore spot for the industry. With free distribution and little control over how they’re used, open-weight models aren’t easily controlled, leadingsome labsto treat them as downright scary. But at the Ai4 conference in … Devamını oku

AI notetaking hardware has taken offover the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way. One of … Devamını oku

Mesh, the relationship manager and personal CRMacquired by WordPress.com’s parent company, Automattic, last year, is now available to users on Android devices. The software allows users to privately visualize and keep track of the people in their personal and professional networks, add notes to people’s contact information, and be reminded when to reach out. On … Devamını oku