WASHINGTON — Two large defense contractors are teaming up to work on an intelligence-collecting jet the U.S. Army considers vital to its future long-range spying and targeting abilities.
L3Harris Technologies and Leidos on July 25 said they would collaborate on a proposal for the Army Theater Level High Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne-Signals Intelligence venture, or ATHENA-S.
The Army is…
Allvin nominated to be Air Force’s top officer
July 26, 2023
President Joe Biden has tapped Gen. David Allvin as his nominee to serve as the next Air Force chief of staff, the White House announced Wednesday.
That puts Allvin, who has served as Air Force vice chief of staff since November 2020, in line to lead the service in the midst…
When NASA’s Juno mission flies by Jupiter’s fiery moon Io on Sunday, July 30, the spacecraft will be making its closest approach yet, coming within 13,700 miles (22,000 kilometers) of it. Data collected by the Italian-built JIRAM (Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper) and…
Montreal startup HumanFirst raises $5M to transform organizations’ conversational data into no-code AI
July 26, 2023
Imagine you run a customer service desk at a company. You quickly notice that your employees spend a good chunk of their day answering the same questions from different customers. Wouldn’t it be nice to automate those responses and let AI answer them, freeing up your human employees’ time to handle trickier questions and situations?
But unless you have a programming background, creating such…
Cyclops raises $6.4M in seed funding to launch AI-powered cybersecurity search platform
July 26, 2023
Cybersecurity startup Cyclops Security announced its public launch today, unveiling a new search platform aimed at helping security teams cut through the complexity of disparate data sources. The company also announced $6.4 million in seed funding from a group of prominent…
Protect AI, an AI and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has successfully raised $35 million in a series A funding round. Evolution Equity Partners led the round and saw participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital…
From data chaos to data products: How enterprises can unlock the power of generative AI
July 26, 2023
Many large enterprises are eager to experiment with generative AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power it, hoping to gain a competitive edge in a range of fields from customer service to product design, marketing and entertainment.
But before they can unleash generative AI’s full potential, they need to address a fundamental challenge: data quality. If enterprises deploy LLMs that…
Scott Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe, told VentureBeat on X-formerly-known-as-Twitter yesterday that while some industries “may not need to exist in the age of AI,” graphic designers will continue to flourish. His comments come following a report by Business…
Fermyon Technologies is expanding its serverless WebAssembly cloud platform today with the integration of a NoOps database to help developers more rapidly build applications.
WebAssembly is an increasingly popular and capable platform that can enable a developer to write…
Stability AI levels up image generation with new Stable Diffusion base model for better image composition
July 26, 2023
Stability AI is out today with a new Stable Diffusion base model that dramatically improves image quality and users’ ability to generate highly detailed images with just a text prompt.
Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0 is the new, leading-edge flagship text-to-image generation model from Stability AI. The release comes as Stability AI aims to level up its capabilities and open the model in the face…
