Monthly Archives: June 2023

UK’s AI safety summit gets thumbs up from tech giants

Make way for another forum on AI safety. The UK government has announced it will convene a “global” AI summit this fall with the aim of agreeing “safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI”, as … Continue reading

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Adobe brings Firefly to the enterprise

Adobe today announced that it is bringing its Firefly generative image generator to its enterprise customers and allowing them to customize the model with their own branded assets. In conjunction with this, the company is also bringing its Adobe Express … Continue reading

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Get a big data education for just $30

Learn one of today’s most in-demand skill sets. The post Get a big data education for just $30 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Nigeria’s Haul247 wants to be Africa’s “Airbnb for trucks and warehouses”

Haul247, a Nigerian end-to-end logistics platform connecting businesses to haulage and warehousing assets, has raised a $3 million seed round. Gender-lens investing fund Alitheia Capital provided the equity capital, with Investment One contributing $1 million in debt financing. The logistics … Continue reading

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Uber is taking its car-sharing service to North America

Uber plans to bring peer-to-peer car sharing to North America, starting with Toronto and Boston, the company said Thursday at its Go-Get product event in London. The ride-hailing and delivery app company launched a car-sharing service in Australia last year … Continue reading

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Meta to debut new Channels broadcasting tool for WhatsApp

Meta announced a new broadcasting feature dubbed Channels for its WhatsApp messaging service intended for people and organizations to send one-way messages.

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WhatsApp launches Channels feature for broadcast messages

Meta is rolling out a broadcast-based messaging feature, called Channels, on WhatsApp, similar to a recent update it sent out to Instagram, as the social juggernaut experiments with giving more conversational avenues to its 2 billion users. The company is … Continue reading

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Segway partners with Drover AI, Luna to bring computer vision to e-scooters

Segway-Ninebot is partnering with Drover AI and Luna Systems — two startups that build computer vision technology to detect and correct improper electric scooter riding — to integrate their technologies into its AI-enabled e-scooters. The partnerships, announced at the Micromobility … Continue reading

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Insify raises another $10.7 million for its business insurance startup

Amsterdam-based insurtech startup Insify has completed its Series A funding round with another €10 million ($10.7 million at today’s exchange rate). Overall, the startup has raised €25 million as part of its Series A round ($26.7 million). Munich Re Ventures, … Continue reading

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Australia’s Canva expands A.I.-powered design business to Europe

Australian graphic design company Canva has said it is in a “uniquely strong position” to withstand industry headwinds as it embarks on its European expansion.

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