An ongoing Microsoft outage is preventing enterprise customers from accessing their email inboxes, files, meetings, and other Microsoft cloud services. The technology giant stated around 2:30 p.m. ET that the outage was caused by a portion of service infrastructure in…
Nearly two years ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that AI would replace knowledge work, the white-collar jobs held by lawyers, investment bankers, librarians, accountants, IT professionals, and others. Despite the enormous progress made by foundation models, this transformation in…
The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising 150 million dollars in seed funding at an 800 million dollar valuation. The funding round was co-led by…
LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the raise of one hundred million dollars in funding at a one billion dollar valuation. This round was led by Index Ventures and included participation…
In a move that highlights the ongoing competition for elite artificial intelligence talent, Google DeepMind has entered into a licensing agreement with voice AI startup Hume AI. As part of the deal, Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, and approximately seven…
Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has used a take-home test for job applicants to verify their technical knowledge. However, as AI coding tools have advanced, the test has required significant changes to prevent candidates from simply using Claude to…
AI chatbots are getting better at answering questions, summarizing documents, and solving mathematical equations. However, they still largely behave as helpful assistants for one user at a time. They are not designed to manage the messier work of real collaboration,…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis expressed surprise that OpenAI has already moved to introduce ads within its AI chatbot. In an interview at Davos, the AI leader responded to a question about monetizing AI services with ads, stating that his…
It will soon be more difficult to fake or manipulate video footage from Ring cameras. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned company introduced Ring Verify, a new video authenticity feature. This tool will allow anyone to determine whether a Ring video has…
Jenny Liu, former CEO of the exclusive, celebrity-favorite gym Dogpound, said there were two reasons she wanted to start her own venture fund. First, she was surrounded by wellness founders at her local gym who loved testing new products and…
