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Shutterstock continues generative AI push with legal protection for enterprise customers

Shutterstock announced today that it will offer enterprise customers full indemnification for the license and use of generative AI images on its platform, to protect them against potential claims related to their use of the images. The company said it would fulfill requests for indemnification on demand through a human review of the images. The announcement comes just a month after Adobe…
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Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raises $65M for AI-driven preventative healthcare solutions

Neko Health, a healthcare technology company co-founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify founder Daniel Ek, announced the successful completion of a €60 million ($65 million) series A funding round. The company aims to revolutionize the health industry through artificial intelligence (AI)-driven full-body scans, specifically focusing on preventative healthcare. The funding marks the company’s…
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A hot generative AI summer is here. Get ready to sweat | The AI Beat

A year ago, the phrase “generative AI” had rarely appeared among the flood of jargon in my inbox. In July 2022, I had received a few missives from Meta about a multimodal “generative AI” prototype called “Make-A-Scene,” and a handful of emails that referenced “generative AI” text-to-image models like DALL·E and Imagen. But I’m pretty sure the term “generative AI” was not…
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AWS exec downplays existential threat of AI, calls it a ‘mathematical parlor trick’

While there are some big names in the technology world that are worried about a potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Matt Wood, VP of product at AWS, is not one of them. Wood has long been a standard bearer for machine learning (ML) at AWS and is a fixture at the company’s events. For the past 13 years, he has been one of the leading voices at AWS on AI/ML…
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