In an increasingly connected world of autonomous vehicles and edge devices, armed forces around the world are seeking to improve the coordination and performance of complex systems. To this end, the U.S. Air Force has signed a contract with tech contractor Qylur Intelligent Systems for an AI-based “Collaborative Autonomous System” that would help maintain the data layer and performance of…
AI has been used a lot for face detection around the world in our surveillance society. But ZeroEyes believes it can detect immediate threats by using AI to detect guns.
ZeroEyes has been rolling out the gun detection video analytics service since 2022. It combines the…
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed dramatic strides in AI development and huge shifts in public perceptions of the technology. Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and LLMs like GPT-4 have demonstrated remarkable abilities to communicate fluently and perform at or near the…
When Open AI first released ChatGPT, it seemed to me like an oracle. Trained on vast swaths of data, loosely representing the sum of human interests and knowledge available online, this statistical prediction machine might, I thought, serve as a single source of truth. As a society, we arguably have not had that since Walter Cronkite every evening told the American public: “That’s the way it…
ServiceNow expands platform with additional generative AI capabilities to ease enterprise productivity
July 29, 2023
Low-code enterprise automation company ServiceNow has announced the expansion of its Now platform’s generative AI capabilities, introducing case summarization and text-to-code features. The company said these advancements aim to drive speed, productivity and value for…
Tech company Devar is getting ready to launch the world’s first generative AI neural network for AR that allows people to create 3D objects and others AR assets.
The company’s Generative AR Platform brings together neural networks and cloud solutions to create AR…
If you’ve wanted a top-tier robot vacuum but were put off by the sometimes outlandish prices, now’s your time to act. Amazon is once more selling iRobot’s Roomba s9+ at a record low of $600, or 40 percent off. That’s the best we’ve seen since Prime Day, and puts it at the same price as a mid-range model like the Roomba j7 or Shark’s AI Ultra.
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Montreal startup HumanFirst raises $5M to transform organizations’ conversational data into no-code AI
July 26, 2023
Imagine you run a customer service desk at a company. You quickly notice that your employees spend a good chunk of their day answering the same questions from different customers. Wouldn’t it be nice to automate those responses and let AI answer them, freeing up your human…
Cyclops raises $6.4M in seed funding to launch AI-powered cybersecurity search platform
July 26, 2023
Cybersecurity startup Cyclops Security announced its public launch today, unveiling a new search platform aimed at helping security teams cut through the complexity of disparate data sources. The company also announced $6.4 million in seed funding from a group of prominent…
Protect AI, an AI and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has successfully raised $35 million in a series A funding round. Evolution Equity Partners led the round and saw participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures.
Founded by Ian Swanson, who previously led Amazon Web Services’…
