Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Nova, a new family of generative AI models. The family includes four text-based models (Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier) and two multimodal models (Nova Canas for image generation and Nova Reel for video generation). Micro, Lite, and Pro are available now, while Premier launches in Q1 2025.

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Tech companies are developing AI agents to automate online shopping, with Perplexity releasing its AI shopping agent for US customers, and others like OpenAI and Google reportedly working on similar projects.

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ServiceTitan plans to raise $446.2-$514.2 million through its IPO, using $311 million to buy back preferred stock from investors Saturn FD Holdings and Coatue Tactical Solutions.

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SpaceX is reportedly in talks to sell insider shares at a valuation of around $350 billion, a significant increase from last month's $255 billion.

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Chinese hackers known as Salt Typhoon are still active in the networks of major US phone and internet providers. The cybersecurity agency CISA reports that the affected companies are working to remove the hackers, but their motives remain unclear.

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ChatGPT refuses to answer questions containing the name 'David Mayer,' freezing up and displaying an error message. The cause is not a conspiracy but an underlying technical issue with the chatbot.

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Amazon's AI assistant platform for businesses, Q, gets updates for integration with more third-party tools and actions across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Smartsheet. Q can now perform tasks on behalf of users in these applications, and bring in data from over 40 enterprise tools.

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Amazon has partnered with Orbital to test a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an AWS datacenter, which is expected to remove more CO2 than the electricity used by the datacenter.

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In 2023, Stackfix, a startup founded by Paddy Stobbs (previously of Jukedeck) and Camin McCluskey (formerly of Skyscanner), raised $3 million in Seed funding to develop AI technology for testing and reviewing software, aiming to increase transparency and independence in the process. This comes as marketplaces for software and services based on user-generated reviews are being questioned for potential bias and inauthenticity.

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AWS is launching Automated Reasoning checks, a new tool to help identify potentially inaccurate information generated by AI models. The tool compares AI-generated responses with customer-provided data for accuracy.

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