Technoloty News : Deasie wants to rank and filter data to make generative AI more reliable
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Technoloty News : Deasie wants to rank and filter data to make generative AI more reliable

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Deasie, a startup developing tools to give companies greater control over text-generating AI models, today announced that it raised $2.9 million in a seed funding round with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, RTP Global, Rebel Fund and J12 Ventures. Deasie’s founders, Reece Griffiths, Mikko Peiponen and Leo Platzer, previously built data governance tools together…

Technoloty News : Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts
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Technoloty News : Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts

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Large language models (LLMs) are the driving force behind the burgeoning generative AI movement, capable of interpreting and creating human-language texts from simple prompts — this could be anything from summarizing a document to writing poem to answering a question using data from myriad sources. However, these prompts can also be manipulated by bad actors…

Technoloty News : Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts .
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Technoloty News : Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts .

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Large language models (LLMs) are the driving force behind the burgeoning generative AI movement, capable of interpreting and creating human-language texts from simple prompts — this could be anything from summarizing a document to writing poem to answering a question using data from myriad sources. However, these prompts can also be manipulated by bad actors…

Technoloty News : Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm raises $149M from state investors
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Technoloty News : Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm raises $149M from state investors

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When Didi created an autonomous vehicle subsidiary in 2020, the venture was seen as a Chinese counterpart to Uber’s AV unit. The tides of change have since swept across China’s tech landscape, where internet firms went through a wave of regulatory crackdown and foreign investments dwindled amid worsening U.S.-China relations. Didi’s AV unit remained in…

Technoloty News : Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm raises $149M from state investors .
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Technoloty News : Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm raises $149M from state investors .

Bytechfunlife

When Didi created an autonomous vehicle subsidiary in 2020, the venture was seen as a Chinese counterpart to Uber’s AV unit. The tides of change have since swept across China’s tech landscape, where internet firms went through a wave of regulatory crackdown and foreign investments dwindled amid worsening U.S.-China relations. Didi’s AV unit remained in…

Technoloty News : Yepic fail: This startup promised not to make deepfakes without consent, but did anyway .
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Technoloty News : Yepic fail: This startup promised not to make deepfakes without consent, but did anyway .

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U.K.-based startup Yepic AI claims to use “deepfakes for good” and promises to “never reenact someone without their consent.” But the company did exactly what it claimed it never would. In an unsolicited email pitch to a TechCrunch reporter, a representative for Yepic AI shared two “deepfaked” videos of the reporter, who had not given…

Technoloty News : Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE .
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Technoloty News : Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE .

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Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment, called Cursor, today announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund with participation from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and other angel investors. The new cash, which brings Anysphere’s total raised to…

Technoloty News : EU also warns Meta over illegal content, disinfo targeting Israel-Hamas war .
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Technoloty News : EU also warns Meta over illegal content, disinfo targeting Israel-Hamas war .

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The European Union has expanded its warning about illegal content and disinformation targeting the Israel-Hamas war circulating on social media platforms to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Yesterday the bloc’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, published an urgent letter to Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter) — raising concerns the platform…

Technoloty News : AMD acquires Nod.ai to bolsters its AI software ecosystem .
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Technoloty News : AMD acquires Nod.ai to bolsters its AI software ecosystem .

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AMD yesterday acquired Nod.ai, an open source AI software provider, as the chipmaker looks to bolster its efforts to build an ecosystem of AI development tools, libraries and models around its hardware. The acquisition is expected to close this quarter, CNBC reports. AMD didn’t disclose the details of the transaction. In a press release, AMD…

Technoloty News : Backed by a16z, Relay races to market with Zapier in its crosshairs .
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Technoloty News : Backed by a16z, Relay races to market with Zapier in its crosshairs .

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A new automation startup is setting out to eat Zapier’s lunch, formally launching to the public today after an extended period in beta. Relay, as the company is called, touts itself as a workflow automation platform that helps people tackle mundane, repetitive tasks, going “beyond triggers and actions” popularized by similar rules-based platforms such as…