AI & Robotics

It’s not easy for an AI startup to raise $350 million these days. But with its generative AI trained to use every software tool and API, the year-old Adept AI has done just that — announcing today a new round of funding that bets on the potential to help knowledge workers boost how they use their everyday software tools. Want to create profit and loss columns in Google Sheets? Set a reminder…

Over the weekend, the hype around generative AI went strangely quiet, as the fallout from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank rapidly rippled through the tech world. By Sunday, executives at thousands of AI startups with deposits in SVB breathed a sigh of relief, as top U.S. federal regulators announced that the FDIC will take control of the bank and protect all depositors. In a Reuters report…

Data is the new oil, but raw data is no good in and of itself. Like oil, data assets have to be gathered entirely and accurately and sent through different refining processes to create value for end users. This is the general data lifecycle — an area where artificial intelligence (AI) is going to play a major role for enterprises. Initially, managing the data lifecycle was a task small enough to…

As the search AI chatbot shindigs — like Microsoft’s Bing bot debut and Google’s Bard launch — wind down for now, who knew the hottest, trendiest party in generative AI would be … business productivity apps? After years of being relegated to nerdy, wallflower AI status while self-driving cars, robot dogs and the future of the AI-powered metaverse got the spotlight, generative AI’s…