Cruise has finally launched an Android app for ridehailing, giving potential customers in San Francisco the option to call one of its robotaxis even if they’re not iPhone users. The self-driving car company told Engadget that 20 percent of its waitlisters are on Android, and an app for the platform is one of people’s most-requested updates on social media. Cruise’s new Android…
You no longer have to hop between apps just to perform some common tasks in Chrome on your iPhone. Google is updating Chrome for iOS with the option to see Maps addresses, create Calendar events and translate specific text without switching to the relevant app. You can find…
Raytheon rebrands as RTX
June 20, 2023
Defense contractor Raytheon Technologies shed its century-old name this week as the next step in an overhaul of its corporate strategy.
The company unveiled its new three-letter moniker, RTX, in a LinkedIn post on Monday. The rebranding comes three years after Raytheon…
WASHINGTON — Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences on Tuesday at the Paris Air Show unveiled plans to develop new and advanced defensive capabilities for the KC-46 Pegasus and other future aerial refueling and mobility aircraft.
Boeing and Aurora’s move to strengthen the Pegasus’s defensive measures comes as the military is preparing for the possibility of a war against an…
Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool
June 20, 2023
Adobe’s stock soared after a strong earnings report last week — where executives touted the success of its “commercially safe” generative AI image generation platform Adobe Firefly. They say Firefly was trained on hundreds of millions of licensed images in the…
Galileo, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, announced today the launch of Galileo LLM Studio, a platform to diagnose and fix issues with large language models. The platform aims to help companies deploy natural language processing models into production…
Generative AI is the most transformative trend this year and growing at a faster pace than any AI technologies that have come before it, which has sparked a genuine industry-spanning uproar.
This makes right now a critical time for candid discussions about the strengths and weaknesses of the technology — about what the landscape really looks like. And doing that with peers outside your own…
Now hear this: Voice cloning AI startup ElevenLabs nabs $19M from a16z and other heavy hitters
June 20, 2023
ElevenLabs, a year-old AI startup from former Google and Palantir employees that is focused on creating new text-to-speech and voice cloning tools, has raised $19 million in a series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), former Github CEO Nat Friedman and former…
In the run-up to its annual Data + AI summit, enterprise data lakehouse vendor Databricks has announced its Marketplace service will soon play host to next-gen applications capable of running natively inside the lakehouse, and play host to ready-to-use models, shared and…
Observe.ai unveils 30-billion-parameter contact center LLM and a generative AI product suite
June 20, 2023
Conversation intelligence platform Observe.ai today introduced its contact center large language model (LLM), with a 30-billion-parameter capacity, along with a generative AI suite designed to enhance agent performance. The company claims that in contrast to models like GPT, its proprietary LLM is trained on a vast dataset of real-world contact center interactions.
Although a few similar…
