AI & Robotics

AI copilots are increasingly the rage as the generative AI boom reaches its first-year anniversary (since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022). But even with companies from Microsoft to recruiting software iCIMS launching copilots — the question remains: how useful, reliable, and helpful will they be to end-users? Layer, a new startup based in Columbus, Ohio, seeks to help other…

Geoffrey Hinton, often dubbed one of the “Godfathers of AI,” has been particularly outspoken since his retirement from Google earlier this year. He is credited with perfecting and popularizing “backpropagation,” a pivotal algorithm that enables multi-layer neural networks to correct their mistakes. This breakthrough has been instrumental in the success of deep learning technologies, which…

Sparta, a startup that provides live market intelligence and forecasting insight for commodity traders, has announced a series A funding round of $17.5 million. The funding round was led by technology venture capital firm FirstMark, alongside existing shareholder Singular. The startup has built a platform that aims to transform the way traders gather, process, analyze and interpret data to inform…

The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga. As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the company generate $20 billion in revenue and five billion downloads to date. The game had 238 million monthly active users in the…