Develop and Solve Tech News - 4 Oct 2023
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I'm so excited to have you join me on this journey through my tech news article series! Each day, I'll be sharing 10 awesome tech-related news stories with you.
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News 1
Google Assistant is Google Assistant is getting an AI-powered update. At today’s Made by Google live event, the company introduced Assistant with Bard, a new version of its popular mobile personal assistant that’s now powered by generative AI technologies.
News 2
How much should a well-regarded artificial intelligence startup be worth on paper?
That’s the question facing scores of sovereign wealth funds, mutual fund firms and other private equity investors looking at two marquee AI opportunities: OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI is in the middle of its second employee share sale in the last six months, and if it succeeds, the new share price could imply an enterprise valuation of at least $80 billion.
News 3
Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on Wednesday said he believes artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence within a decade, urging Japanese companies to adopt it or be left behind.
News 4
People already use technology to assist with their personal health, such as smartwatches that can track their weekly exercises and monitor their heart rate. So it's perhaps unsurprising that the market is being flooded this year with AI-powered apps that plan meals.
News 5
Rabbit — which has $20 million in funding contributed by Khosla Ventures, Synergis Capital and Kakao Investment, which a source familiar with the matter says values the startup at between $100 million and $150 million — isn’t the first to attempt a layering natural language interface on top of existing software.
News 6
Canva has become a go-to graphic design platform for many people because of its intuitiveness and vast range of services. Now, Canva is celebrating its tenth anniversary by launching an AI-infused design platform -- Magic Studio. Magic Studio infuses AI across every part of Canva. It includes a suite of AI features that can do everything from creating an entire design for you to editing a short-form video from a few clips.
News 7
With a new dataset, Deepmind has partnered with many other institutions to fill the data gap in robot training and enable the generalization of robot capabilities across robot types. Early results are promising.
News 8
Some early user tests for Meta’s new AI-generated sticker tool have resulted in some dubious (and rather hilarious) creations. After gaining access to the new AI-generated sticker tool on Facebook Messenger, X user @Pioldes was able to create a host of inappropriate sticker images — including child soldiers, gun-wielding Nintendo characters, Mickey Mouse taking a crap.
News 9
Neil Kumaran, Group Product Manager for Gmail Security & Trust, writes that Gmail's AI-powered defenses stop more than 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching inboxes and block nearly 15 billion unwanted emails every day.
However, the way the internet has evolved over the last 20 years has led to new threats that are more complex than ever. As such, new guidelines are being introduced in February 2024 for those who send more than 5,000 emails per day to Gmail users.
News 10
"AI in general, and generative AI more particularly, is the shiny object that everybody's chasing," Mohanbir Sawhney, associate dean of digital innovation at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, told Insider. "And when clients chase shiny objects, consultants chase clients. So they're not far behind."
That's all for today's tech news roundup. I hope you found this information helpful and informative. If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment below.