Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people’s voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation  —  Hume has raised $50 million in funding at a $219 million valuation to build “empathic” conversational AI.  —  Alan Cowen feigns a dejected

Amazon, one of India’s biggest e-commerce sites is currently offering some of the biggest discounts of the year. The Amazon Great Indian Festival started on October 7 for its Prime users, and opened to all users on October 8. During the ongoing sale, Amazon is offering great deals and discounts on multiple products, including electronic

CNBC: Amazon plans to invest $2.75B in Anthropic, the second tranche of Amazon’s planned $4B investment in the AI startup, after a $1.25B tranche in September 2023  —  Amazon is making its largest outside investment in its three-decade history as it looks to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence race. Source link

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, said on Tuesday it will test a new subscription model under which it will charge $1 (roughly Rs. 83) annual fee for basic features. The new subscription termed as “Not A Bot” will charge users for likes, reposts or quoting other accounts’ posts, and bookmarking posts on

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google adds AI-generated trip itineraries to Search, translation to Circle to Search, and curated recommendations in Maps in 40+ cities across the US and Canada  —  Google is introducing a handful of updates that aim to take some of the stress out of planning trips and outings … Source link

Oppenheimer is finally arriving on digital and physical media on November 21. This release window aligns with producer Emma Thomas’ claim from September, and marks exactly four months since the biopic’s theatrical release on July 21. Having shattered global box office records, partly thanks to the ‘Barbenheimer’ craze, the film will soon be available to

Marcia Sekhose / 91mobiles: Alleged renders of the Google Pixel 9 show a camera module with two cameras, compared to three cameras on the 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL, a compact body, and more  —  – New 5K renders give us a close look at the vanilla Google Pixel 9.  — In addition to

Intel launched its AI PC Acceleration Program in October 2023 to connect independent hardware and software vendors with the company’s resources. On Tuesday, the company announced two more initiatives under the umbrella programme. The first initiative is called the AI PC Developer Program which is aimed at software developers, and a separate initiative for independent

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated  —  Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they’re vulnerable … Source

Fireworks.ai is a California-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is offering a unique solution for enterprises. The AI firm does not build large language models (LLMs) or foundation models from scratch but fine-tunes open-source models and converts them into an Application Programming Interface (API) to help businesses deploy the AI capabilities in a seamless fashion.