Robot or fauxbot?
Robot or fauxbot? This is my week of debriefs. CES has a way of hurling you into the new year, kicking and screaming, and it...
VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already
VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already The emergence in the last week of a particularly effective voice synthesis machine...
FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market
FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot...
HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings
HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company better known as HPE, today announced that it acquired...
Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market
Pittsburgh’s AI expertise may give rise to an already growing startup market Emerging markets tend to go in and out of vogue. First, Austin was...
Nvidia unveils new AI workflows to help the retail industry with loss prevention
Nvidia unveils new AI workflows to help the retail industry with loss prevention In a recent episode of “Customer Wars” a woman put a chainsaw...
Veteran enterprise VC Peter Wagner on the opportunities for AI startups
Veteran enterprise VC Peter Wagner on the opportunities for AI startups Depending on whom you ask, artificial intelligence will either vastly improve our lives or...
Seek lands $7.5M investment for AI that answers domain-specific questions
Seek lands $7.5M investment for AI that answers domain-specific questions Seek, an automation platform for data analytics tasks, today announced that it raised $7.5 million...
DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation
DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and Open AI) specifically those helping...
Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M
Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M In 2011, Jordi Torras, a former Oracle VP, had a realization: companies weren’t optimizing their...