Lambda, which rents access to AI chips, raised a $1.5B Series E led by TWG Global, after raising $500M in April 2024, taking its total funding to $2.3B
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Anthropic announces a deal with Cognizant, under which Cognizant will roll out Claude to its 350K employees and co-sell Claude models to its business customers
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Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M primary and $24M secondary round
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OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants
the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh Raghuwanshi / Times ...
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector's unemployment rate fell from 5.5% in July to 4.5% in August, while active tech job postings declined 2.6% from July
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Abridge, which uses AI to automate doctors' notetaking, raised $300M led by a16z at a $5.3B valuation, after raising $250M at a $2.75B valuation in February
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A look at the US Energy Department's Argonne National Lab, whose AI-based PRO-AID tool assists in nuclear reactor design and helps operators run nuclear plants
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-4o image generation natively in ChatGPT across all subscription tiers and says the omnimodal model is “a step change above previous models”
Do You Still Need DALL-E? The Indian Express : OpenAI's new image generator for ChatGPT triggers Ghibli fest: 10 best posts on X Chris Smith / BGR : Reve Image is the latest AI image generator going v...
AWS aims to use “automated reasoning”, which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems in a structured way, to prevent AI models' hallucinations
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : Bluesky: @quinnypig.com Bluesky: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : The automated reasoning group at AWS absolutely does not play around. I'm inclined to take this seri...
AMD invests $20M in drug-discovery company Absci, which will move toward greater use of AMD's GPUs; Absci uses 470+ AI chips, most of which are Nvidia's GPUs
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