In July, New York City officially began cracking down on companies that run afoul of its first-in-the-nation law (NYC Law 144) governing the use of artificial intelligence in employment decisions.
Even companies that are not based in New York City but have operations and employees there — particularly global enterprises — must be compliant with this new regulation. The law doesn’t explicitly…
Generative AI, enabled by large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, has caused shockwaves in the tech world. ChatGPT’s meteoric rise has triggered the global tech industry to reassess and prioritize gen AI, reshaping product strategies in real time.
Integration of LLMs has…
The arrival of artificial intelligence is often met with fear of it becoming, among other things, this living sentient overlord, an all-encompassing algorithmic landlord over humanity. However, the early AI use cases are showing a far more empowering future — one that will…
OpenAI wants teachers to use ChatGPT for education
September 1, 2023
It’s not only programming, journalism and content moderation that OpenAI is seeking to revolutionize with the use of its landmark large language models (LLM) GPT-3, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
Today, the company published a new blog post titled “Teaching with AI” that outlines examples of six educators from various countries, mostly at the university level though one teaches high school, using…
Gong, the nine-year-old company focused on making technology that streamlines workflows for revenue teams across sectors, made news earlier this summer by introducing new generative AI-powered features to its customer conversation analysis platform, including gen AI…
IBM and Salesforce team up to bring AI tools to their shared clients
September 1, 2023
Big Blue is teaming with an even Bigger Blue to deliver AI solutions to clients.
Today, IBM and Salesforce announced they are joining forces to bring Salesforce AI solutions (Sales GPT, Service GPT, Salesforce Einstein, Slack GPT and Marketing GPT) to customers who do…
Meet Superframe, the AI startup that wants to be your copilot for revenue operations
September 1, 2023
Superframe, an AI-powered software company aiming to help businesses optimize their go-to-market technology stacks, announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding from more than 40 angel investors, including data and AI experts, Salesforce consultants and general operating experts.
The round comes on the heels of Superframe’s launch of its first official product, an AI assistant…
Pirros, a startup that applies AI to streamline drawing sets for buildings and infrastructure, lands $2 million seed round
September 1, 2023
Pirros, a technology platform that helps architecture and engineering firms manage their drawing sets more efficiently, announced today that it has raised a $2 million seed round from a group of investors and advisors with deep industry connections.
Notable contributors to…
With generative AI tools like ChatGPT proliferating across enterprises, CISOs have to strike a very difficult balance: Performance gains versus unknown risks. Gen AI is delivering greater precision to cybersecurity but also being weaponized into new attack tools such as…
Tel Aviv, Israel-based large language model (LLM) leader AI21 Labs confirmed with VentureBeat that it has has closed $155 million in series C funding to accelerate the growth of its text-based generative AI services for enterprises. The company is now valued at $1.4 billion.
Investors in the round include Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next and Amnon Shashua with…
