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timeOS wants to transform your calendar into an interactive assistant with AI

In recent months, the enterprise software market has been utterly flooded with new generative AI-related updates, tools, and startups. For vendors hawking new wares, standing out from the crowd is tricky. But one such vendor hopes to do so by tackling a very specific problem: time management. This week, the three-year-old Los Angeles-founded startup timeOS (formerly called Magical HQ) unveiled its…
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DeepMind discovers that AI large language models can optimize their own prompts

When people program new deep learning AI models — those that can focus on the right features of data by themselves — the vast majority rely on optimization algorithms, or optimizers, to ensure the models have a high enough rate of accuracy. But one of the most commonly used optimizers — derivative-based optimizers— run into trouble handling real-world applications. In a new paper…
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Series AI raises $7.9M in funding for game-building tools

Series AI announced today that it has raised $7.9 million in its seed funding round, which it plans to put towards a “suite of AI-powered game authoring tools.” The company is working on these tools as a way to help decrease the amount of time spent on menial tasks in…
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Anthropic and BCG form new alliance to deliver enterprise AI to clients

AI unicorn startup Anthropic, known for taking on OpenAI’s ChatGPT with its Claude 2 large language model (LLM) assistant, is moving to take its offerings to more enterprises.  Today, the Dario Amodei-led company announced it has partnered with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to provide its clients with “direct access” to Claude 2 and Anthropic’s AI tech. The engagement will see BCG…
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Here are the six AI nonprofits Salesforce is backing

Salesforce is going all in on AI – not just for its customers but also to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. The Marc Benioff-led CRM major announced that it will invest $2 million across six nonprofits looking to tap generative AI technologies for social impact solutions. The funding will be provided as part of the company’s “AI for Impact” accelerator and will paired with…
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