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Anthropic is launching a new subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude for enterprise customers looking for greater administrative control and enhanced security. Claude Enterprise competes with OpenAI's business-only solution ChatGPT Enterprise, which was released about a year ago. Claude Enterprise allows businesses to upload their own corporate knowledge to Anthropic's AI chatbot, which can then analyze the information and answer questions about it, create graphics and simple web pages, and act as a business-specific AI assistant. Anthropic seems to be trying to catch up with OpenAI and bring Claude to all the places ChatGPT already exists. The startup has…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1B in funding from investors including NFDG (an investment partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel. SSI told Reuters it plans to use the funding to acquire computing power and hire researchers and engineers in both Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, though it has not yet said what exactly it will research. Reuters reported, citing sources, that the new funding values SSI at $5 billion. Prior to SSI, Sutskever led OpenAI's now-disbanded Superalignment…
According to the American Gaming Association, the U.S. sports betting market generated $10.9 billion in revenue across casinos, sportsbooks and iGaming in 2023. One of the reasons the industry is so lucrative is because the majority of people who bet on sports lose. DubClub, a three-year-old San Francisco-based startup, is looking to change that. “When it comes to betting on sports, they're at a structural disadvantage against sportsbooks,” DubClub co-founder and CEO Ryan Gartner told TechCrunch. “They have more data than the average person. These companies make money when people lose.” DubClub wants to help amateur bettors win more by…
New climate tech venture capital firms have emerged in recent years, while established firms have also raised larger rounds. Founded in 2007, Dutch firm SET Venture Capital is one of the latter. The firm's fourth fund just closed on €200 million, double the size of its previous fund, and will be invested in 20-25 European startups working to make renewable energy more mainstream. SET's name is pronounced “set” and is short for sustainable energy technologies. The firm has a long track record of investing in European climate-focused startups, and with its Article 9 status that mandates sustainability efforts as a…
Sanjay Agrawal and Shashank Gupta, co-founders of business intelligence company ThoughtSpot, say that a few years ago they noticed organizations struggling to cope with the growing amounts of data they were managing. Even companies with powerful data analytics and orchestration tools seem to be struggling, Agrawal and Gupta say. Perhaps so: A Deloitte survey found that 67% of managers are uneasy about accessing insights from data analytics platforms, in part due to technology-related challenges. “Everyone wants to be strategic, but current approaches keep companies stuck in firefighting mode while tackling routine, preventable operational and tactical tasks,” Agrawal told TechCrunch. “Companies…
If you build an AI search product, you’re competing with Google. But it’s much easier for Google to answer a query with a single, simple answer like “How many is 12” than it is to answer a complex question like “How did Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ influence the ideals of the Enlightenment?” That's why You.com is committed to answering the second type of question. Buoyed by a new $50 million funding round, the AI company is looking to gain an edge in a perennially innovative yet often overlooked field where other multi-billion dollar AI companies have faltered. As founder and…
reMarkable's new Paper Pro tablet brings the company's vision of combining PC and paper closer to reality, adding color and functionality while keeping the same philosophy of focus. The Norwegian company is something of an unlikely success story. In an age where devices are packed with more and more features, reMarkable's approach of doing a few things well seems almost black-and-white, almost self-defeating. But despite the current, the company has grown, self-financed and thrived without relying on venture capital, something most startups can't do. With the first reMarkable tablet, the company established the philosophy of focusing on one document at…
Good news for Microsoft: UK antitrust regulators have announced that they won't launch a full investigation into the tech giant's acquisition of the team behind AI startup Inflexion because it doesn't raise competition concerns. However, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the deal fell within its regulatory jurisdiction as a “relevant merger situation”, meaning similar transactions in the future could be investigated on competition grounds even if an outright acquisition does not take place. “Quasi-merger” Microsoft launched a new consumer AI division in March, spearheaded by Inflection founders including Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman. CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that…
After years of criticism over Apple's lack of innovation when it comes to Siri, the company has promised to release a smarter version of its digital assistant this fall. Powered by Apple Intelligence, the company's generative AI service, and a partnership with OpenAI, Siri will get a host of new features and updates. From ChatGPT integration to the ability to type instead of talk to Siri, there are lots of changes coming to Siri in the coming months. Here's a look at what the introduction of Apple Intelligence will enable in the revamped digital assistant. We'll learn more about Apple's…
After months of speculation, Apple Intelligence took center stage in June at WWDC 2024. The platform was announced following a flurry of news about generative AI from companies like Google and Open AI, raising concerns that the notoriously tight-lipped tech giant had missed out on the latest tech boom. But contrary to such speculation, Apple has assembled a team to work on a typically Apple approach to artificial intelligence, and while the demo was flashy (Apple always loves a splash), Apple Intelligence is ultimately a very pragmatic approach to the field. Apple Intelligence (yes, AI for short) is not a…