A startup focused on deploying AI-powered customer service agents is now valued at $2 billion, having raised another $150 million in a Series B funding round. The investment continues the …
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On Monday, Anthropic filed its lawsuit against the Defense Department over being designated as a supply chain risk. A few hours later, OpenAI and about 40 Google employees – including …
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The chief executive of Rolls-Royce has pressed ministers for taxpayer support for new jet engines, the day after the company announced record profits and pledged to return £9bn to shareholders. …
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AI Tools
Nous Research releases ‘Hermes Agent’ to fix AI amnesia with multi-level memory and dedicated remote terminal access support
In the current AI landscape, we have become accustomed to the ‘transient agent’ – a brilliant but forgetful assistant that restarts its cognitive clock with every new chat session. While …
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Generative AI
Meet ‘Kani-TTS-2’: a 400M ultimate open source text-to-speech model that runs in 3GB of VRAM with voice cloning support
The landscape of generative audio is moving toward efficiency. A new open-source contender, kani-tts-2Released by the team nineninesix.ai. This model marks a departure from bulky, …
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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins/Futurism. Source: Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Alex Wong/Getty Images; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images It’s not exactly big news that big tech is deeply intertwined with the US government. Days …
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AI News
This popular Bose speaker is losing software support in a few weeks — but I can’t even be upset
Bose SoundTouch 20 Smart Speaker. boss Follow ZDNET: Add us as a favorite source On Google. ZDNET Highlights Bose SoundTouch devices will soon reach the end of their life. Once …
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With over 300% year-over-year usage growth for 2 consecutive years, Delta Sharding is the most widely adopted open protocol for data and AI sharing. Major data providers including SAP, Walmart, …
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Future Tech
Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett support campaign accusing AI companies of theft AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, REM and Jodi Picoult are among hundreds of Hollywood stars, musicians and writers who are supporting a new campaign accusing AI companies of “stealing” their work. …
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NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter Posted on the agency’s website on January 16. Affected groups have historically offered feedback …