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Memories.ai is building the visual memory layer for wearables and robotics
Shawn Shen believes that AI will need to remember what it sees in order to succeed in the physical world.
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Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It's been just over two weeks since OpenAI reached a controversial agreement to allow the Pentagon to use its AI in classified environments.
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The dictionary sues OpenAI
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed “massive copyright infringement.” Britannica, which owns Merriam-Webster, retains the copyright to nearly 100,000 online articles, which have been scraped and us
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Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions
In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even more significant: the loan origination system (LOS), which is the backbone of the lending industry. Frustrated by the limitations of
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Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B
Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP Ventures, at $1.64 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. Frore has now raised $340 million total, the company said.
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WIRED Article Production automation page/Only for QA/Do not click/Do not publish
WIRED杂志推出文章生产自动化页面，专为QA测试设计，严禁点击发布。该系统标志着AI技术深度介入新闻编辑流程，旨在提升效率、降低成本。未来，AI将从草稿生成到最终校对全程自动化，结合大语言模型如GPT系列，实现个性化内容生产。本文探讨这一创新背后的行业背景、技术挑战与伦理隐忧，预测媒体行业将迎来颠覆性变革。（128字）
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US Treasury publishes AI risk Guidebook for financial institutions
The US Treasury has published several documents designed for the US financial services sector that suggest a structured approach to managing AI risks in operations and policy (see subheading ‘Resources and Downloads’ towards the bottom of the link).
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Models Are Applying to Be the Face of AI Scams
jobs, Angel talks up her language skills. “I can speak fluent English, I can speak good Chinese, I also speak Russian and Turkish,” the glamorous, 24-year-old Uzbekistani woman explains in a selfie-style video made for recruiters.
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OpenAI’s Frontier puts AI agents in a fight SaaS can’t afford to lose
When OpenAI launched Frontier in February, the announcement was described as a platform for enterprise AI agents.
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Securing digital assets against future threats
In partnership withLedger Securing digital assets against future threatsAI-enabled fraud and the coming impact of quantum computing are redefining digital-asset security, putting pressure on owners and service providers to act now.Cryptocurrency thieves are getting creative.
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NTT DATA and NVIDIA bring enterprise AI factories to production scale
NTT DATA has announced an initiative to deliver NVIDIA-powered platforms designed to give organisations a repeatable, production-ready model for scaling AI.The offering integrates NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated computing and high-performance networking with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, including NeMo an
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The Download: glass chips and “AI-free” logos
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Future AI chips could be built on glass Human-made glass is thousands of years old.
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Nurturing agentic AI beyond the toddler stage
SponsoredProvided byIntel Parents of young children face a lot of fears about developmental milestones, from infancy through adulthood.
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Google, Accel India accelerator choses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’
Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models.
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ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator
ByteDance has paused plans to launch its new AI video model globally, according to a report in The Information. The Chinese company, best known as TikTok’s parent organization (and now a minority shareholder in its U.S. spinoff), launched Seedance 2.0 in China back in February.
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Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week — the biggest acquisition in Google’s history, as well as the largest-ever acquisition of a venture-backed startup. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Reb
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Meta reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% of the company
Meta is considering major layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company’s workforce, according to Reuters. These layoffs could help the Facebook parent company offset its aggressive spending on AI infrastructure, as well as AI-related acquisitions and hiring.
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US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B
The U.S. Army said late Friday that it has signed a 10-year contract with defense tech startup Anduril.
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How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you.
Global Standards, Local Ground Truths: Piloting Multilingual, Multimodal AI Safety Understanding in APAC
AI作为当今采用速度最快的通用技术，其全球普及却存在显著差距，反映出数字鸿沟。MLCommons推出AILuminate Culturally-Specific Multimodal Benchmark，针对亚太地区开发文化特定的多语言多模态数据集，揭示模型在全球南方语境下的性能短板。文章强调文化特定风险评估，避免简单二元标签，转而鼓励本地专家定义适当响应，如中国送钟禁忌。多模态场景如识别本地物品图像尤为关键。目前数据集已含7000+文本+图像提示，覆盖新加坡、印度、韩国等地，计划2026年夏季发布。全球伙伴合作确保基准接地气，推动AI安全公平性。（128字）