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Campfire brings enterprise holographic collaboration to Meta Quest 3 with planned AI assistant
Campfire 3D Inc., the maker of a holographic enterprise collaboration system for enterprise users, is bringing its capabilities to the newly launched Meta Quest 3 with a virtual tutor named Spark that paves the way for a future artificial intelligence-driven assistant to train users and help build products. Meta Platforms Inc. today announced the launch ...
MoneyGram plans to launch digital wallet for crypto assets
Global payments and wire transfer services company MoneyGram International Inc. is doubling down on its cryptocurrency leanings with an announcement Tuesday that the company will soon offer a noncustodial wallet for customers to hold crypto assets such as bitcoin, Ethereum and USD Coin stablecoins. A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency that is “pegged” to match a ...
Cloudflare announces full-stack platform for deploying AI at scale
Connectivity cloud company Cloudflare Inc. today expanded its artificial intelligence platform offerings for developers with the addition of infrastructure that allows the deployment of AI inference at large scale, vector databases and observability. As a global company, Cloudflare has built a large network of locations around the globe to house storage and compute, and it’s putting that ...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now allows users to use voice and pictures to get answers
People have been able to hold text conversations with OpenAI LP’s chatbot powered by artificial intelligence for a long time now, but the company said today it’s upgrading it so that they can chat with it out loud with their own voices. Users will also be able to snap photographs and hold back-and-forth conversations with ...
Mesh raises $22M for platform that helps businesses manage digital assets
Mesh Connect Inc., a startup that provides a system for enterprise businesses to manage digital assets, said Thursday that it completed a $22 million funding round to build out its platform, which helps customers maintain control over virtual assets such as cryptocurrencies. The Series A funding round was led by Money Forward Inc. with participation from ...
Microsoft announces Copilot in Windows 11 and new Surface laptops
Microsoft Corp. is expanding the presence of its artificial intelligence Copilot in a unified experience throughout Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 and in its web browser Edge and Bing. The early form of the update, announced today, will be coming to Windows 11 users through a free update starting on Sept. 26, and across Bing, ...
Amazon touts generative AI for Alexa, new Echo Show 8, Fire TV Stick and more
Amazon.com Inc. took to the stage during its Fall Devices Event today to reveal a number of new Echo devices and announced it will soon power its virtual assistant Alexa with a generative artificial intelligence model, giving it a whole new personality and the ability to hold conversations. New advancements in AI have given them ...
Corti raises $60M in funding to expand its AI co-pilot for healthcare professionals
Corti, the maker of an artificial intelligence assistant for healthcare professionals, today announced that it has raised $60 million in additional funding to support the growth of its technology that can understand patient needs and interact with doctors and other emergency workers. The Series B funding round was co-led by Prosus Ventures and Atomico, with ...
Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now link to Gmail, Docs, Maps, YouTube and more
Google LLC expanded the capabilities of its Bard chatbot today, enabling it to integrate with a larger number of services including Gmail, Google Docs, Maps and YouTube. Bard is Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot that powers a number of standalone chat experiences and also lives in its search interface where users can ask it questions and ...
Pryon raises $100M to help enterprises build AI assistants with their data
Pryon Inc. today announced the company raised $100 million in a Series B round led by billionaire Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund to accelerate the growth of its platform, which helps enterprises build artificial intelligence assistants that can ingest and understand their vast stores of unstructured data and other knowledge. The company was founded ...