This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images
Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars.
Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools
With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race
Amazon is throwing its hat into the generative AI ring. But rather than bud AI models entirely by itself, it’s recruiting third parties to host models on AWS.
AWS today unveed Amazon Bedrock, which provides a way to bud generative AI-powered apps via pretrained models from startups including
LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M
Danish company LMS365, an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding.
Used by companies including logistics giant Hellmann and soda bottling franchise G&J Pepsi, LMS365 allows users to crea
Google’s free Assured Open Source Software service hits GA
About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend against supply chain security attacks by regularly scanning and analyzing for vulnerabities some of the world’s most popular software libraries. Today, Google is l
Researchers discover a way to make ChatGPT consistently toxic
It’s no secret that OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things. But now, researchers have discovered how to consistently get the chatbot to be . . . well, the worst version of itself.
A study co-authored by scientists at the
After spinning out of IBM-acquisition NS1, open source startup NetBox Labs raises $20M
NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January, today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.
NS1, for the uninitiated, is a 10-year-old domain name system (DNS) and networ
VCs still think work software is a wise investment
Work software is seeing significant investments from VCs, reflecting the continued trend toward digital transformation and remote work.
In its Road to Next report released Tuesday, Deloitte found that even though overall investment in work software companies is down from the lofty heights it reache
AutoLeap, now with $30M Series B, accelerates SaaS approach to auto repair operations
A shortage of available vehicles, higher car prices and interest rates are fueling car owners to hold onto their vehicles longer. Statistics from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics show that the average passenger car on the road is over 13 years old. In 2017, the age of the average car was 11
RevOps unleashed: 4 tips that help teams filter out the noise and focus on the big picture
The newfound popularity of a Revenue Operations function seems, at face value, pretty obvious. The economy is exceedingly tough, which has prompted companies to hire experts in operational efficiency. The idea is to, as the saying goes, “Do more with less.”
Unfortunately, RevOps largely find th
Graneet raises $8.7 million for its vertical SaaS for construction companies
French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies. And it has grown quite a lot since I first covered the company, as the company has tripled its revenue over the past six months.
That's why the startup raised an €8 million
UK regulators could be right about cloud portability obstacles
Last week, U.K. communications watchdog group Ofcom reported that it was investigating cloud infrastructure vendors — paying particular attention to Amazon and Microsoft — for making it too difficult to move workloads from public clouds. This raised a legitimate question about the obstacles to
Generative AI could transform the way we interact with enterprise software
Over the last several months, OpenAI, and ChatGPT in particular, has shown what's possible with a user interface built on top of a large language model that can answer questions and create code or pictures. While that alone is remarkable, we can also interact with and adjust the byproduct by ha
Samsung cuts memory chip production as it hits worst quarterly profit since 2009
Samsung Electronics plans to cut back memory chip production as its operating profit in the first quarter of 2023 is expected to plummet about 96% from the previous year. This will be the lowest profit posted by the South Korean tech giant since Q1 2009.
The global macroeconomic slowdown, memory ch
Forest Admin launches cloud version of its low-code internal tool builder
French startup Forest Admin is launching a cloud-based version of its product. The company helps you create flexible back-end admin panels for operations teams. Essentially, Forest Admin helps development teams spend less time on back office tools so they can focus on the actual product.
With the c