AI & Robotics

Generative AI will make the 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’ — whether it is from chatbots or deepfakes — while at the same time, politics will slow down AI regulation efforts, says Nathan Lambert, a machine learning researcher at the Allen Institute for AI, who also co-hosts The Retort AI podcast with researcher Thomas Krendl Gilbert. “I don’t expect AI regulation to come in the US [in…

In a turbulent year for venture capital investing, Mine countered the trend with a Series B $30 million funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Battery Ventures, with notable investment from Nationwide Ventures. The shift in regulation for both consumer and employee privacy in both the U.S. and the European Union has increased an enterprise’s responsibilities around privacy for both their…

Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, just announced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now available as a dedicated app on Android. The move, which is expected to give billions of users access to Pi, comes as the latest effort from the year-old startup to take on OpenAI’s widely popular ChatGPT and other new…

You may not yet have heard of Deepdub, but the audio tech startup — founded in 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel — is hoping that you have heard and will hear more of the voices it is recording and publishing. Deepdub offers artificial intelligence (AI) tools for dubbing voices in videos, audio tracks, games, and other media, allowing a speaker to record a vocal track in their native language, and…