Hollywood actors and writers are currently striking, and one of their biggest concerns is the impact of generative AI on their industry and their jobs. In a news conference last Thursday, Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union, said AI poses an “existential threat to creative professions, and all actors and…
Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, has raised $54 million in a new round of funding in an effort to marry AI and the metaverse.
10T Holdings led the round and included participation from Ripple. Futureverse‘s technology platform includes a…
How iGenius’s GPT for numbers is evolving language models to give enterprise data a voice
July 18, 2023
Uljan Sharka, founder and CEO of iGenius, has spent the last seven years working on language models and generative AI. To this point, it’s been all about the technology, from the size of the model to how much training data it uses to inference times. And what he’s…
Another day in the year 2023, another big-time AI partnership is announced: This time it is Cohere, the white-hot Canadian generative AI startup focused on building enterprise-grade large language models (LLMs) and tools, and McKinsey, the 97-year-old global consulting firm, where half of its 30,000 employees were already using gen AI as of last month.
The collaboration will be spearheaded by…
This fall, U.S. Senators will be going back to school — with a crash course in AI that will include at least nine forums with top experts on copyright, workforce issues, national security, high risk AI models, existential risks, privacy, transparency and explainability…
Fable, a San Francisco startup running a big project dubbed The Simulation, has released Showrunner AI technology, dubbed SHOW-1, which can generate new episodes of TV shows with you as the star.
It’s another big step for generative AI, which has been on a tear for the…
Lenovo has announced its latest data management innovation, launching the ThinkSystem DG Enterprise Storage Arrays and ThinkSystem DM3010H Enterprise Storage Arrays. These all-flash arrays are designed to simplify AI workload enablement and unleash the value of data.
The company has also revealed two integrated and engineered ThinkAgile SXM Microsoft Azure Stack servers. These provide a unified…
TikTok rolls out passkey login for iOS devices
July 18, 2023
The list of third-party apps that support passkey login on the iPhone has grown by one, thanks to TikTok. Users of the popular video-sharing service will now have the option to sign in with their passkey associated with their Apple ID, which means they can easily get into…
With the rapid developments in generative AI today, what should your business be focusing on? This week, VentureBeat Transform featured incredible lessons from practitioners and vendors in data and AI, and next week the MIT CDO Symposium will be full of insights from the…
How AI can improve the future of incident response
July 18, 2023
Cybersecurity software providers must step up their efforts to deliver self-healing software and solutions, according to Adam Zoller, CISO for healthcare leader Providence. Speaking at VentureBeat Transform 2023 last week, Zoller pointed out that there is white space in the market where vendors need to step up and fund self-healing initiatives.
Zoller joins a growing group of CISOs calling for…
