Lithuania’s Unmanned Defense Systems secures €3.2M to advance AI-based swarm drones

Lithuania’s Unmanned Defense Systems secures €3.2M to advance AI-based swarm drones

Lithuanian advanced swarm detection company Unmanned Defense Systems (UDS) today announced it has raised €3.2M to scale battlefield-tested UAVs and advance AI-based swarm integrations with contemporary battlefield management systems.  UDS has also designed its own fleet of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), ranging from reconnaissance drones Partisan to loitering munition and FPV drones.   The company has already won multiple defence procurement tenders and supplies its solutions to the Lithuanian and Ukrainian armed forces, other EU members, and NATO allies.  A strong team bringing money and expertise Joining the leadership are Vytenis Buzas, one of the creators of the first Lithuanian satellite…
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CoreWeave raises $1.1B at $19B valuation to grow its GPU cloud – SiliconANGLE

CoreWeave raises $1.1B at $19B valuation to grow its GPU cloud – SiliconANGLE

CoreWeave Inc., the operator of a cloud platform optimized for graphics card workloads, today announced that it has closed a $1.1 billion funding round. The Series C raise reportedly values the company at $19 billion. That’s up from the $7 billion it was worth following a $642 million secondary sale in December. Fidelity Management, which led that deal, also joined in the funding round CoreWeave announced today along with Coatue, Lykos Global Management, Altimeter Capital and Magnetar. CoreWeave operates a public cloud that provides access to about a dozen different Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units. It targets two main use…
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Google Gemini Cheat Sheet (Formerly Google Bard): What Is Google Gemini, and How Does It Work?)

Google Gemini Cheat Sheet (Formerly Google Bard): What Is Google Gemini, and How Does It Work?)

Gemini is Google’s artificial intelligence ecosystem, including a chatbot that generates responses to user-provided natural language prompts. In response to a prompt, Gemini can pull information from the internet and present a response. The large language model behind Gemini delivers the response in natural language — in contrast to a standard Google search, where a result consists of a snippet of information or a list of links. Google announced Gemini (as Bard) in February 2023 after OpenAI and Microsoft both garnered attention for AI chatbot systems. And in May 2023, AI advancements featured prominently in Google’s I/O event. On Feb.…
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Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Ripped Off Her Voice for ChatGPT

Last week OpenAI revealed a new conversational interface for ChatGPT with an expressive, synthetic voice strikingly similar to that of the AI assistant played by Scarlett Johansson in the sci-fi movie Her—only to suddenly disable the new voice over the weekend.On Monday, Johansson issued a statement claiming to have forced that reversal, after her lawyers demanded OpenAI clarify how the new voice was created.Johansson’s statement, relayed to WIRED by her publicist, claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman asked her last September to provide ChatGPT’s new voice but that she declined. She describes being astounded to see the company demo a…
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Introducing the Databricks AI Fund

Introducing the Databricks AI Fund

We launched Databricks Ventures in December 2021 as our strategic investment arm for funding innovative startups across the data, analytics and AI landscape — companies that shared our view on the importance of open platforms and ecosystems. Since then, via the inaugural Lakehouse Fund, we’ve invested in more than 25 amazing companies that are building on or extending the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The result has been a stronger ecosystem, with our portfolio companies delivering best-in-class product experiences for our joint customers.Today, we’re excited to announce the Databricks AI Fund, the second fund at Databricks Ventures. Just as software ate…
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AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules

Inside every plant, animal and human cell are billions of molecular machines. They’re made up of proteins, DNA and other molecules, but no single piece works on its own. Only by seeing how they interact together, across millions of types of combinations, can we start to truly understand life’s processes.In a paper published in Nature, we introduce AlphaFold 3, a revolutionary model that can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy. For the interactions of proteins with other molecule types we see at least a 50% improvement compared with existing prediction methods, and for some…
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Incorporate offline and online human – machine workflows into your generative AI applications on AWS | Amazon Web Services

Incorporate offline and online human – machine workflows into your generative AI applications on AWS | Amazon Web Services

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the emergence of generative AI that can produce human-like novel content such as images, text, and audio. These models are pre-trained on massive datasets and, to sometimes fine-tuned with smaller sets of more task specific data. An important aspect of developing effective generative AI application is Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). RLHF is a technique that combines rewards and comparisons, with human feedback to pre-train or fine-tune a machine learning (ML) model. Using evaluations and critiques of its outputs, a generative model can continue to refine and improve its performance. The…
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The 4 ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs will reshape enterprise computing

The 4 ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs will reshape enterprise computing

Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. The era of the AI PC, or rather, the Copilot+ PC, has arrived. This week, Microsoft introduced its vision of what personal computing will look like in this artificial intelligence-filled world. “We’re entering this new era where computers not only understand us but can anticipate what we want and our intents,” chief executive Satya Nadella remarked while explaining the platform shift starts…
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Cats purrfectly demonstrate what it takes to trust robots

Cats purrfectly demonstrate what it takes to trust robots

Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well as human interaction. Cat Royale is a unique collaboration between Computer Scientists from the University of Nottingham and artists at Blast Theory who worked together to create a multispecies world centred around a be-spoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. The installation was launched…
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American Airlines fires attorneys who said 9-year-old girl ‘should have known’ she was being recorded in the bathroom

American Airlines fires attorneys who said 9-year-old girl ‘should have known’ she was being recorded in the bathroom

American Airlines has new attorneys after previous lawyers said a 9-year-old should have realized she was being recorded in the bathroom by a flight attendant.The airline is facing several lawsuits stemming from criminal charges against Estes Carter Thompson, a former flight attendant accused of filming underage girls by taping his phone to the bathroom toilet seat.Police arrested Thompson after a 14-year-old girl noticed a phone with its camera flashlight turned on in the bathroom on a flight from North Carolina to New York in September 2023, police say. He is facing federal charges of attempted sexual exploitation of children and…
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