Securing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workflows is a complex challenge that can involve multiple components.
Seattle-based startup Protect AI is growing its platform solution to the challenge of securing AI today with the acquisition of privately-held Laiyer AI, which is the lead firm behind the popular LLM Guard open-source project. Financial terms of the deal are not…
Synthesia launches LLM-powered assistant to turn any text file or link into AI video
February 1, 2024
Today, London-based Synthesia, the startup that enables enterprises to create professional AI videos, announced the launch of its AI video assistant, a tool that can turn text-based sources into full-fledged synthetic videos in a matter of minutes.
Available starting today…
OpenAI, the research organization behind the powerful language model GPT-4, has released a new study that examines the possibility of using AI to assist in creating biological threats. The study, which involved both biology experts and students, found that GPT-4 provides…
Dynatrace, a Massachusetts-based company that provides technology to monitor and optimize application performance, announced today that it will expand into the artificial intelligence space.
At its annual Perform conference, Dynatrace revealed plans to augment its core analytics platform with new capabilities to track both large AI models and applications powered by them. The new offering, called…
Shopify boosts its commerce platform with ‘Magic’ image editor and other AI enhancements
February 1, 2024
Shopify has just unveiled over 100 new updates to its commerce platform, with artificial intelligence emerging as a key theme. The company introduced new AI-powered capabilities aimed at helping merchants work smarter, sell more, and create better customer experiences.
The…
Exclusive: Metal unveils new AI assistant for financial services and private equity funds
January 31, 2024
Anyone with experience in or around finance would probably attest that a good chunk of the work is tedious, especially when evaluating the performance of companies over time and their future performance outlook. This holds true for professionals in financial services, where…
SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 2024 — In January 2024, VentureBeat launched the AI Impact Tour, a series of intimate events in cities across the U.S., each focusing on distinct aspects of the current and upcoming AI revolution. VB Lab just announced a partnership with Microsoft to sponsor three of these events, kicking off in New York in February.
Each invitation-only salon is an evening of…
Atropos Health partners with Google Cloud to rapidly generate insights from healthcare data using AI
January 31, 2024
Atropos Health, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based healthcare startup, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud today. The collaboration allows Atropos to optimize its Generative Evidence Acceleration Operating System (GENEVA OS) to work with Google Cloud’s healthcare data…
AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days: ‘beyond anything we imagined’
January 30, 2024
Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days…
There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be applied to robotics systems, which are still lagging in generalizing their abilities.
A new paper by researchers at Meta AI and New York University introduces an open-knowledge-based framework that brings…
