AI: Latest News and Analysis

Forbes
Veritone Introduces Data Refinery, Tackling AI’s Data Drought
This ambitious new tool is designed to transform vast, unstructured datasets into polished, AI-ready assets—a critical step as industries push the boundaries of ...
TechCrunch
LogicMonitor’s massive $800M raise shows AI is driving the demand for data center monitoring
Data center monitoring firm LogicMonitor has rasied $800 million in a funding round that values the company at $2.4 billion.
Business Insider
How a personalized AI tool helped one marketing firm get 20 times its return on investment
Jasper is using AI to create personalized marketing content to target companies that might be interested in its products.
Forbes
How AI Is Reshaping Industries And Creating Tomorrow’s Job Market
Discriminative AI, including machine learning and deep learning, is reshaping traditional industries while GenAI is starting to push the boundaries of human creativity.
Inc
Why OpenAI’s Push Into Classrooms Could be Important For Your Company
OpenAI addresses one of the elephants in the AI room by trying to help educators navigate an era when students can use AI to help with their work. Its handbook could help your company’s thinking too.
SiliconANGLE
Nvidia’s SC24 special address hints at a new era in computing and AI
As the world of high-performance computing is getting together this week in Atlanta for SC24 , Nvidia Corp. held a “special address” to showcase the company’s vision for computing and artificial ...
Business Insider
AI is helping one software security company send 5 times the number of threat alerts in record time
With AI, Black Duck can send faster notifications to users when their software is at risk and potentially exploitable.
Associated Press
Nvidia is Wall Street's most valuable company. How it got there, by the numbers
Nvidia’s total market value as of the close Wednesday, tops in the S & P 500. It regained the No. 1 sport from Apple ($3.461 trillion) earlier this week. Microsoft is the only other company with a ...
Bloomberg
Baidu Bulls Retreat as Earnings to Highlight Firm’s AI Challenge
Optimism about Baidu Inc.’s US-listed shares is waning ahead of the company’s third-quarter results, as traders debate whether the search engine’s artificial intelligence efforts will pay off.
Fortune
Elon Musk asked people to upload their medical data to X so his AI company could learn to interpret MRIs and CT scans
In Elon Musk’s world, AI is the new MD. The X CEO is encouraging users to upload their medical test results—such as CT and bone scans—to the platform so that Grok, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, ...
CRN
The 10 Coolest Cloud Computing Startup Companies Of 2024
The top cloud startup startups of 2024 include computing, Kubernetes, AI and security innovators Wiz, CoreWeve, Prosimo, Pulumi, Tackle.io, Cast AI and Spectro Cloud.
Business Insider
Hitachi Rail and Nvidia are developing AI-powered train tech that can 'read any possible problem,' says the railway company's group CEO
Hitachi Rail and Nvidia launched HMAX, an AI-powered digital management platform, to improve trains, signaling, and infrastructure management.
Associated Press
Nvidia rivals focus on building a different kind of chip to power AI products
Building the current crop of artificial intelligence chatbots has relied on specialized computer chips pioneered by Nvidia, which cornered the market and made itself the poster child of the AI boom.
Newsweek
Microsoft Pushes Autonomous AI Agents Amid Industry Caution
Microsoft plans to outline the future direction of its artificial intelligence strategy at its company conference in Chicago.
MarketWatch
Microsoft pitches AI 'agents' that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is opening a company conference in Chicago with remarks that could set the stage for where it’s taking its artificial intelligence business ...
Forbes
d-Matrix Emerges From Stealth With Strong AI Performance And Efficiency
Matrix uses a novel dual memory approach to fast inference processing, with SRAM supporting interactive speeds and DRAM supporting larger models.
Investor's Business Daily
C3.ai Jumps On Microsoft Cloud Partnership Targeting Enterprise Market
AI stock popped on news that Microsoft's Azure unit will provide cloud computing services to artificial intelligence software maker C3.ai.
Associated Press
Founder of artificial intelligence company used by schools in Los Angeles, NYC, Atlanta is arrested
The founder of an artificial intelligence company that worked with large school districts nationwide has been arrested on fraud charges.
Business Insider
How AT&T's AI tool is fast-tracking productivity for 100,000 employees
AT&T is leveraging generative AI and large language models to expand the capabilities of Ask AT&T, its internal AI tool.
The Verge
Microsoft is the mystery AI company licensing HarperCollins books, says Bloomberg
Just one day after 404 Media revealed that HarperCollins struck a three-year AI training deal with an unnamed company, Bloomberg now says Microsoft will use the publisher’s content to train a ...
TechCrunch
Chroma, backed by Pinterest and Twitter co-founders, sells to AI audio company Bronze
Chroma, a startup building a new type of audiovisual entertainment for mobile devices, has been sold. The company, which had financial backing from ...
VentureBeat
Goodbye cloud, Hello phone: Adobe’s SlimLM brings AI to mobile devices
Adobe's SlimLM, a breakthrough AI system, brings advanced document processing directly to smartphones without the need for cloud computing, offering enhanced privacy and reduced costs for businesses.
MarketWatch
Why Nvidia’s championship season has all the makings of an AI dynasty
Nvidia reminds me of that great Bulls team and that historic championship season. Nvidia’s GPUs are tech’s hottest ticket, with demand far exceeding supply. Like the Bulls in the Jordan era, Nvidia ...
Bloomberg
Pony AI Nears US IPO as Self-Driving Rivalry With China Heats Up
Autonomous driving startup Pony AI Inc.’s upcoming US initial public offering will be closely watched, as Donald Trump’s second administration considers moves that could ramp up competition in the ...
VentureBeat
Microsoft launches Azure AI Foundry with agent orchestration, management tools
Microsoft introduced AI agents to its Dynamics 365 platform in October. During Ignite, the company announced it would add more agentic AI capabilities to other Microsoft products, ...
Business Insider
Exclusive: Prompt Security raises $18 million to help companies better secure generative AI tools like ChatGPT
Prompt Security's software will show any interaction between an enterprise employee and a generative AI tool like ChatGPT.
TechCrunch
Current AI scaling laws are showing diminishing returns, forcing AI labs to change course
AI labs traveling the road to super-intelligent systems are realizing they might have to take a detour. "AI scaling laws," the methods and expectations ...
Newsweek
Did AI Influence the Election Result? Experts' Verdicts
Experts express concern that AI could have impacted election integrity through deepfakes, disinformation, and bias.
Reuters
KPMG to spend $100 million on AI partnership with Google Cloud
KPMG said on Wednesday it would spend $100 million over the next four years to bolster its enterprise artificial intelligence services through a partnership with Alphabet's Google Cloud.
Reuters
Numenta, backed by Gates Foundation, releases open-source AI model
Numenta, a company with backing from the Gates Foundation, on Wednesday released an open-source AI model it hopes will require less energy and data to create intelligent machines than existing ...
CRN
Deloitte Is Planning A GenAI Agent App Bonanza Based On HPE Private Cloud AI
Here’s a look at why Deloitte is building a GenAI agent app bonanza based on Hewlett Packard Enterprises Private Cloud AI service.
TechCrunch
ElevenLabs now offers ability to build conversational AI agents
ElevenLabs, a startup that provides AI voice cloning and a text-to-speech API, launched the ability to build conversational AI bots on Monday. The company ...
Yahoo
Want to Cash In on the AI Boom? This Top Stock Believes It's in the Best Position to Capitalize on This AI-Powered Megatrend.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires tremendous amounts of computing power in the form of specialized chips to thrive. Powering the AI revolution will take an all-encompassing approach. While ...
Yahoo Finance
Ubitus and ASUS to Showcase AI-Powered Robotic Dog and Virtual Influencer at SC24, Elevating AI Capabilities
Ubitus unveils its latest AI-driven innovations in collaboration with ASUS at the SuperComputing24 (SC24) event in Atlanta, Georgia. Following a successful showcase at the NVIDIA AI Summit Japan on ...
TechCrunch
SuperAnnotate helps companies manage their AI datasets
SuperAnnotate, whose clients include Databricks and Canva, helps users create and keep track of large AI training data sets. The startup initially focused on labeling software, but now provides tools ...
Reuters
AI startup Perplexity adds shopping features as search competition tightens
Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity on Monday launched a shopping hub to attract users, in a bid to beef up its platform as it attempts to take on Alphabet-owned Google's dominance in ...
VentureBeat
Nvidia accelerates Google quantum AI design with quantum physics simulation
Nvidia it is working with Google Quantum AI to accelerate the design of its next-generation quantum computing devices using simulations powered by Nvidia.
Wall Street Journal
Companies Need Help Using AI. Cue the Integration Startups.
And cue the venture capital. Startups that help companies customize AI to their needs are scoring high-profile venture support.
Inc
Microsoft Just Revealed 5 New AI Agents to Help You Work Smarter
Microsoft’s project management platform, Planner, is also getting an AI agent. The “Project Manager Agent” will be capable of developing a project plan, assigning tasks to employees, tracking progress ...
Associated Press
Microsoft pitches AI ‘agents’ that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is opening a company conference in Chicago with remarks that could set the stage for where it’s taking its artificial intelligence business.
CNN
AI is hitting a wall just as the hype around it reaches the stratosphere
Skeptics of AI have long warned of “scaling laws” — the idea of continually improving a model’s output just by adding data and computing power. They aren’t so much laws as educated guesses and even ...
TechCrunch
Database startup Neo4j embraces AI to supercharge growth
Graph database startup Neo4j has embraced tools to support AI projects and systems — a move that's bolstered the company's growth.
Business Insider
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang predicts computing power will increase a 'millionfold' in a decade
The Nvidia CEO said computing power is increasing fourfold annually, which would lead to huge improvements over 10 years.
Forbes
d-Matrix Emerges From Stealth With Strong AI Performance & Efficiency
Matrix uses a novel dual memory approach to fast inference processing, with SRAM supporting interactive speeds and DRAM supporting larger models.
Bloomberg
Nvidia Is Helping Google Design Quantum Computing Processors
Nvidia Corp., the chipmaker at the center of a boom in artificial intelligence use, is teaming up with Alphabet Inc.’s Google to pursue another technology once relegated to science fiction: quantum ...
Bloomberg
Microsoft Unveils Software to Ease AI App Development, Model Switching
The second offering is a data processing unit, a type of networking chip Nvidia Corp. also makes that transfers data more quickly to computing and AI semiconductors, speeding up tasks. Microsoft and ...
Reuters
AI startup Enfabrica raises $115 million, plans to release chip next year
Enfabrica, a California-based startup that aims to make AI chips work more efficiently together at scale, said on Tuesday it raised $115 million in funding and plans to release its newest chip early ...
Wall Street Journal
It Isn’t Just Data Centers—AI’s Plumbing Needs an Upgrade
The country’s data centers are ill prepared for the impending demand for AI networking, made more extreme by increased use of chatbots and AI agents. How some networking providers and data center ...
ARPU
AI Out of Nuclear Launch Decisions, Say US and China

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached an agreement that neither country will relinquish control of its nuclear weapons to artificial intelligence, the White House announced Saturday.

"It’s an important statement about the intersection of artificial intelligence and nuclear doctrine, and it is