Musician Krist Novoselic speaks during Microsoft’s annual meeting. (Video via Microsoft webcast) Is Microsoft moving too quickly to capitalize on artificial intelligence at the expense of long-term shareholder value? That was a key question at the company’s shareholder meeting Thursday morning. Krist Novoselic, the musician and author who co-founded the iconic band Nirvana, served as …
Topline Nicki Minaj is set to release her new album “Pink Friday 2” this week, and her fans are using artificial intelligence to launch their own marketing campaign, creating a fake pink-colored world called “gag city” that’s captured the attention of brands, celebrities and Minaj herself. Minaj is set to release “Pink Friday 2” on …
Sarvam AI has come out of stealth mode and announced it has raised $41 million as the five-month old Indian startup races to build a suite of full-stack generative AI offerings. The $41 million funding raise is across the Seed and Series A financing rounds. Lightspeed led the Series A round, whereas it co-led the …
The Government Accountability Office is getting ready to publish a report on certain federal agencies’ progress with artificial intelligence use case inventories. The report will focus on the Chief Financial Officer Act agencies — not including the Defense Department — as well as the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and …
Image Credits: Darrell Etherington The Pixel 8 Pro will now become the first Android smartphone to be powered by Google’s next-generation AI model, Gemini, starting today, the company announced. Gemini Nano, a version of the model designed for running on-device, as on smartphones, will now leverage Google’s Tensor G3 to deliver two Pixel 8 Pro …
It’s safe to say that VCs struck while the iron was hot this year where it concerned generative AI. While venture capital investments overall fell compared to last year thanks to macroeconomic challenges and other related factors, startups in the generative AI space — and AI more broadly — did quite well. Funding for AI-related …
X.AI Corp., backed by Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, is raising up to $1 billion in a securities offering, according to a regulatory filing. The filing, made Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, says that Musk, who took over Twitter and renamed it X, is an executive officer and director of …
AI development and concerns about its safety continue to grow at a rapid pace with little regulation in place. The latest industry-based solution to this comes courtesy of IBM and Meta, which have announced the creation of the AI Alliance. Its mission centers on “fostering an open community and enabling developers and researchers to accelerate …
Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung will reportedly launch the Galaxy Book 4 series on December 15. The laptops are expected to be equipped with Intel’s new Core Ultra CPUs. Some specifications of the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra have also leaked. Samsung is reportedly readying its new Galaxy Book series of laptops with AI …
Back in August, Meta unveiled its multimodal AI translation model, SeamlessM4T, which supports nearly 100 languages for text and 36 for speech. With an updated “v2” architecture, the tech giant is now expanding on this tool to make conversational translations more spontaneous and expressive — the latter a missing key to an authentic conversation across …