Biostate AI, a molecular diagnostics startup combining next-generation RNA sequencing (RNAseq) with generative AI, announced today it has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. The round also saw participation from Gaingels, Mana Ventures, InfoEdge Ventures, and returning investors Matter Venture Partners, Vision Plus Capital, and Catapult Ventures. High-profile angels…
President Trump has now signed the Take It Down Act, criminalizing sexual deepfakes at a federal level in the US. At the same time, the CivitAI community’s bid to ‘clean up its act’ regarding NSFW AI and celeb output has ultimately failed to appease payment processors, leading the site to seek alternatives or face shutdown….
Why it matters: Google AI Creates Fictional Folksy Sayings, sparking concerns over misinformation in AI-generated language.
Why it matters: India Unveils PARAM 1 GenAI Model, a multilingual AI built for Indian users to rival GPT-4 and boost innovation.
It’s no secret that software is a part of our daily lives. We use it to keep our schedules, connect with friends and family, manage our finances, and execute everyday tasks for work. The convenience and speed it offers us, it also offers to cybercriminals. Especially in the last several years, it’s been impossible to…
Cloud computing has come a long way, and it’s going to be used very differently for the next generation than it was when it first took root 20 years ago. As the race to automate software development heats up between OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI frontrunners, a quieter pressure point is brewing: cloud infrastructure. Recently…
As companies grapple with moving Generative AI projects from experimentation to productionising – many businesses remain stuck in pilot mode. As our recent research highlights, 92% of organisations are concerned that GenAI pilots are accelerating without first tackling fundamental data issues. Even more telling: 67% have been unable to scale even half of their pilots…
Kuljesh Puri is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Media & Technology at Persistent Systems. He brings over 26 years of experience across the software, telecom, and semiconductor industries, along with extensive international exposure and a passion for transformation. Before joining Persistent, Kuljesh headed the Telecom Product Engineering portfolio at Tech Mahindra….
About a decade ago, artificial intelligence was split between image recognition and language understanding. Vision models could spot objects but couldn’t describe them, and language models generate text but couldn’t “see.” Today, that divide is rapidly disappearing. Vision Language Models (VLMs) now combine visual and language skills, allowing them to interpret images and explaining them…
Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan has never forgotten the pleasure he felt the first time he tasted a delicious crisp, yet gooey Levain cookie. He compares the experience to when he encounters new ideas. “That hedonic pleasure is pretty much the same pleasure I get hearing a new idea, discovering a new way of looking at…