MuukTest, a Raleigh, North Carolina startup, announced a new AI agent designed to automate software quality assurance testing. The company's vision is to reduce test creation to a click. The AI agent is intended to help testers test every menu, button, and operation in the software user interface under multiple conditions to catch bugs before software release.
AIMuukTest | Rating: 58 | 2024-08-06 03:45:55 PM |
Michael Rigney, a researcher, is developing an AI-powered water heater that can predict when a household will need more hot water, eliminating cold showers. The technology is based on heat pump water heating, which is more efficient than traditional methods. Rigney's goal is to provide a cost-effective solution to the problem of cold showers.
AIAI | Rating: 62 | 2024-08-06 01:16:04 PM |
Hyperspace, a company, is building custom cloud instances to accelerate two specific database tasks - lexical searches and vector searches. Lexical searches are a type of keyword-based search that look for exact matches in a database, whereas vector searches consider the semantic meaning and context of the search. The company's CEO and co-founder, Ohad Levi, says that these custom instances can help companies make trade-offs between database cost, performance, and accuracy.
AIHyperspace | Rating: 42 | 2024-08-06 01:16:04 PM |
John Schulman, a co-founder of OpenAI, has left the company to join rival AI startup Anthropic. OpenAI's president, Greg Brockman, has taken an extended leave of absence, and product manager Peter Deng has also left. The departures come as OpenAI's president and a product manager have taken leaves of absence.
2024-08-06 12:56:06 AM |
Five secretaries of state, including Steve Simon of Minnesota, wrote an open letter to Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, urging him to stop Grok, X's AI-powered chatbot, from spreading false information. The chatbot wrongly suggested Vice President Kamala Harris isn't eligible to appear on some 2024 U.S. presidential ballots. The letter also mentions Groq, an AI startup that raised over $600 million, which is not related to Grok.
2024-08-05 11:46:11 PM |
A YouTube creator, David Millette, is filing a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company trained its AI models on millions of YouTube video transcripts without notifying or compensating the owners. The lawsuit claims that OpenAI profited significantly from the creators' work, violating copyright law and YouTube's terms of service. The company's AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT, and other generative AI tools and products are at the center of the lawsuit.
2024-08-05 04:25:58 PM |
A new report suggests that current safety evaluations for AI models may be inadequate. Organizations such as Scale AI, NIST, and the U.K. AI Safety Institute are proposing new benchmarks to test the safety of generative AI models. These models, which can analyze and output text, images, music, and videos, are coming under increased scrutiny for their tendency to make mistakes and behave unpredictably.
AINIST | Rating: 57 | 2024-08-04 06:16:06 PM |
Yelp's Chief Product Officer Craig Saldanha discussed the company's AI strategy, mentioning the addition of AI-powered summaries and an AI assistant to connect consumers with service providers. He joined Yelp after nearly a decade at Amazon. The company aims to add AI without threatening the authenticity of user reviews on the platform.
2024-08-04 04:06:07 PM |
Noam Shazeer, co-founder and CEO of Character.AI, is returning to Google after leaving in October 2021. He previously led the team that built LaMDA, a language model for conversational AI tools. Character.AI co-founder Daniel De Freitas and other employees are also joining Google. Google is investing an undisclosed amount in Character.AI and receiving a non-exclusive license to its technology.
AIGoogle | Rating: 71 | 2024-08-02 05:56:02 PM |
The cloud infrastructure market has reported revenue of $79 billion for the quarter, a 22% increase from last year. This marks the third consecutive quarter with year-over-year growth of 20% or more. AI was a significant contributor to this growth. Synergy Research expects the market to double again in four years' time.
2024-08-02 04:26:14 PM |