AI & Robotics

This morning, Google announced a laundry list of new generative AI capabilities and features for developers, through a PaLM API and in Google Cloud, as well as new integrations for users of Google Workspace, including in Gmail and Google Docs. The announcements come just a month after Google unveiled its search chatbot Bard and less than a week after Bloomberg reported that a new internal Google…

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…