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The operatives working for Elon Musk are the authorities in the U.S. government department, including an agency responsible for managing data on millions of federal employees and a system responsible for paying $6 trillion to Americans. It has gained unprecedented access to the range. During the first three weeks of Trump's second administration, the group of representatives of masks – the presidential advisory committee known as the government efficiency, or DOGE, despite questions about security clearance, cybersecurity practices. We managed the best federal departments and datasets. and the legality of mask activities. Whether it's a feat or a coup (which…

Many startups are racing to make inspections of vehicles faster, easier and cheaper. San Diego-based startup Self Inspection believes it's beating it all with its AI-powered services. Self-Inspection, founded in 2021, is set to announce on Thursday it raised $3 million in a seed round co-led by Costano Aventure and DVX Ventures, a company run by former Tesla President John McNeill. . The round was Westlake Financial, which handles more than 1 million vehicle transactions per year. Karim Bousta, partner at DVX Ventures, believes that traditional vehicle inspection processes are ripe for innovation. Self-Inspection Technology “not only streamlines the operations…

The French public investment bank has announced it is planning to invest 10 billion euros (approximately $10.3 billion at its current exchange rate) in the French artificial intelligence ecosystem. The announcement comes days before heads of state and global technical leaders gather for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. BPIFRANCE has been a major investor in the high-tech ecosystem for the past decade, handing out small grants to early-stage startups, taking part in large funding rounds in exchange for some equity, and “fund funds.” Strategies to invest directly in VC companies. “[France] Already 750 world-renowned AI startups boast. There…

Silicon Valley is building AI agents crazy to augment human labor. If such agents function as intended, the entire work could become extinct or close to it. AI agents are poised to drive away customer service representatives, sales associates, executive assistants, IT administrators, junior developers and journalists. AI startup boards replace “helpful VCs” by automating referrals to people. When a founder or investor is asked about the potential work that technology causes, the answer is always the same. Yes, AI eliminates some work. But it also creates others. Make sure it's become VC Mike Ghaffary's obsession. Ghaffary is previously best…

Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products powering various capabilities in Microsoft software and services, like summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams. That’s in addition to Microsoft-owned GitHub’s Copilot tool for generating code, and the Copilot that lives on Windows and the web, which serves as a general-purpose assistant. In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and the differences between the premium and free editions. What is Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft…

According to Reuters, Safe Superinterigence, an AI startup founded by former Openai chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $20 billion. It's not clear how much safety a secure Superintelligence, which has not yet generated revenue, is still in place, but it can be substantial. The new figures are four times the $5 billion valuation held by the company last September. Little is known about the work of Safe Superintelligence. The company, which counts former Openy researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects, has sourced Daniel Gross' lead Daniel Gross…

The humanoid robotics company figure raised an eyebrow this week when it announced it was leaving its partnership with Openai in support of building its own in-house AI model. Figure CEO Brett Adcock hints at a “major breakthrough” in their own process, and plans to unveil “something no one has ever seen on humanoids” next month. It's not just companies experimenting with non-Openai solutions. Last week, researchers from Stanford and Washington University demonstrated that they can train highly competent “inference” models for under $50 in cloud calculation credits, in stark contrast to the costs associated with OpenAI models. . TechCrunch's…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has started notifying individuals whose personal information was stolen during a 2023 cyberattack. HPE has so far notified more than 12 individuals whose data was stolen in a cyberattack, according to a review of TechCrunch's violation notices filed with at least two U.S. Attorney General. The data that was infringed included Social Security numbers, driver's license information and credit card numbers, according to a submission to the state of Massachusetts. HPE spokesman Adam R. Bauer did not reply to requests for comment on the violation. This violation has been linked to intrusion into HPE's email systems and…

Over the past few years, Genai Boom has unleashed a wave of startups that promise to support the fast engineering process. That is, I came up with instructions that accurately steer the AI ​​chatbot and provide useful output. So tools like Openai's ChatGpt and Google's Gemini will present users with blank fields for their queries. New York-based Promptlayer entered the space early and launched its tool about two years ago to allow app developers to manage the prompt process. Its founder was messing around with the AI ​​chatbot itself and wanted something to track his prompts. On a bit of…

As the Covid-19 pandemic hits 2020 and schools move to online learning, Joe Titus and Paul Sue worry about how to maintain children's activity levels in the absence of forced PE classes and sports I was doing it. The solution for two friends was HiveClass, a New York-based Edtech platform that hosts online courses for K-12 students to learn about fitness, sports, dance, yoga, nutrition, mindfulness and more. There is also a self-defense course. Even in a post-pandemic world, the platform is gaining more attention than the convergence of trends. Children are increasingly free from school PE classes and often…