AI & RoboticsNews

Zoom launches AI Companion to summarize meetings for late attendees

Zoom, the videoconferencing and messaging platform, is getting into the built-in generative AI assistant game, according to a blog post on Tuesday. It said it will rebrand its Zoom IQ as the Zoom AI Companion and users already subscribed to the paid services will have access to the new features right away. Mapping to the challenges found in a normal workday, Zoom says its “AI Companion” can…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

AI21 Labs co-founder says ‘we usually win’ when competing with OpenAI for enterprise business

Before there was OpenAI’s ChatGPT, there was AI21 Labs’ Wordtune. One of the first companies to bring generative AI tools into widespread commercial use, the Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs came out of stealth in 2020, founded by AI and tech luminaries Amnon Shasuha (founder and CEO of Mobileye), Yoav Shoham (professor emeritus at Stanford University), and Ori Goshen (founder of CrowdX). AI21 Labs…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Gleen AI arrives with $4.9M in funding to stop AI hallucinations using enterprises’ own data

As organizations around the world look to rapidly evaluate, test, and deploy generative AI into their workflows — either on the backend, front-end (customer-facing) or both — many decision-makers remain rightfully concerned about some of the lingering issues, among them, the problem of AI hallucinations. But a new startup, Gleen AI, has burst on the scene and claims to “solve…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

3 things businesses need to know as NYC begins enforcing its AI hiring law

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…
Read more