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Google to reintroduce AI image generation tool for creating images of people after halting service over inaccuracies.

entspos5:48 pmAugust 28, 2024 Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary, has signed a multi-year agreement with Uber to integrate its robotaxis into the ride-hailing platform by 2025. While Cruise hasn’t specified the exact date customers can expect to see its vehicles on Uber’s app, a spokesperson told TechCrunch that the partnership will commence after Cruise relaunches its own driverless service.This announcement signals that Cruise is gearing up to bring its robotaxis back to public roads following an incident last October when one of its vehicles struck a ped

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Cruise and Uber Partner to Bring Robotaxis to Ride-Hailing Platform in 2025

entspos9:34 amAugust 23, 2024 Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary, has signed a multi-year agreement with Uber to integrate its robotaxis into the ride-hailing platform by 2025. While Cruise hasn’t specified the exact date customers can expect to see its vehicles on Uber’s app, a spokesperson told TechCrunch that the partnership will commence after Cruise relaunches its own driverless service.This announcement signals that Cruise is gearing up to bring its robotaxis back to public roads following an incident last October when one of its vehicles struck a ped

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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

entspos10:38 amAugust 19, 2024 Copilot is Microsoft's innovative approach to enhancing productivity through generative AI, aligning with its expansive AI ambitions. Today, there are about a dozen Copilot-branded products integrated into various Microsoft software and services, offering features like summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams.In addition to these, Microsoft also offers GitHub Copilot for code generation and a general-purpose Copilot on Windows and the web, similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.This post will explore the different Mic

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Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say

entspos8:15 pmAugust 11, 2024 Anysphere, a two-year-old startup behind the AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, has successfully raised over $60 million in Series A financing, reaching a post-money valuation of $400 million, according to sources familiar with the deal, as reported by TechCrunch.The funding round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, with participation from Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe. While Anysphere, a16z, and Collison did not provide comments, Thrive declined to comment.Founded by MIT students Michael Truell, Sualeh A

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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic

entspos4:43 pmAugust 7, 2024 John Schulman, co-founder of OpenAI, announced in a Monday X post that he is leaving the Microsoft-backed company to join Anthropic, an AI startup funded by Amazon. Schulman’s departure follows OpenAI's decision to disband its superalignment team, which aimed to ensure human control over advanced AI systems.Schulman, who co-led OpenAI’s post-training team responsible for refining AI models for ChatGPT and third-party developer interfaces, shared that his move is motivated by a desire to focus more on AI alignment and engage in hands-on techn

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