Author: Advanced AI Editor
Ex-Google X trio wants their AI to be your second brain — and they just raised $6M to make it happen
Three former Google X scientists aim to give you a second brain virtually — not in the sci-fi or chip-in-your-head sense, but through an AI-powered app that gains context by listening to everything you say in the background. Their startup, TwinMind, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding and released an Android version, along with a new AI speech model. It also has an iPhone version. Co-founded in March 2024 by Daniel George (CEO) and his former Google X colleagues Sunny Tang and Mahi Karim (both CTOs), TwinMind runs in the background, capturing ambient speech (with user permission) to build…
Klarna’s $15 billion IPO was more than a financial milestone. It spotlighted how the Swedish buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firm is grappling with artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of its operations. Back in 2023, Chief Executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski suggested AI could replace large parts of the company’s customer-service workforce. The remarks sparked pushback from employees and skepticism from customers, many of whom doubted whether the technology was advanced enough to provide empathy and reliability at scale. Pivoting and Learning Klarna’s first wave of AI adoption proved too rigid, with customers finding the experience inconsistent. The company now pivoted toward a blended…
From grammar to SEO optimization and ideation, these AI tools enable writers to write clear, compelling, and search-friendly content. With the appropriate tools, time is saved, and every piece stands out in quality and reach.1. Grammarly: Your Smart Writing AssistantGrammarly is a popular AI-based writing tool used by writers, renowned for its live grammar, spelling, and punctuation checks. Its simple user interface extends beyond general proofreading to also offer suggestions for style, tone, and vocabulary to improve content quality for maximum impact and clarity. Interestingly, its plagiarism detection functionality ensures writers remain original through text checks against web sources. By…
Several European countries including Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and France have announced new LNG projects or the expansion to existing ones in response to shutdown of Russian gas pipelines.Michael Sohn | Afp | Getty ImagesSo I’m sure you would have all seen U.S. President Donald Trump this week urged the European Union to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and China to stop them buying cheap Russian oil.A move that the U.S. administration said it would also match in an approach designed to ratchet up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk seriously about peace in…
Recently, ByteDance’s Seed team announced the launch of the Doubao image creation model Seedream 4.0. This model supports text-to-image generation, image editing, and multi-image referencing, achieving industry-leading levels in multimodal image generation effects, speed, and usability in professional evaluations. According to ‘TMT Planet’, Seedream 4.0 is now officially available on products like Doubao App, Jimeng AI, and Kousi, allowing users to experience it for free. The model has also been made available to enterprise clients through the Volcano Engine. The Seed team stated, ‘Seedream 4.0 is not just an image generation model; it is a multimodal creative engine with knowledge…
Ever since Covenant launched, Artificial Lawyer has wanted to learn more about this new model for delivering legal services. So, it was great to do an AL In-depth interview with Jen Berrent, co-founder of one of the first AI-powered hybrid law firms. Covenant is not alone in placing AI front and centre in their legal offering, we have also seen Crosby come to market, and on a smaller scale there is Garfield. We’ve also seen legal AI company Eudia open its own ‘law firm’ in Arizona. In short, the market is changing. In Covenant’s case, Berrent is an experienced lawyer…
As humans delegate more tasks and decisions to artificial intelligence (AI), we risk losing control of our individual and collective futures. Relatively simple algorithmic systems already steer human decision-making, such as social media feed algorithms that lead people to unintentionally and absent-mindedly scroll through engagement-optimized content. In this paper, we develop the idea of human agency by integrating philosophical and scientific theories of agency with AI-assisted evaluation methods: using large language models (LLMs) to simulate and validate user queries and to evaluate AI responses. We develop HumanAgencyBench (HAB), a scalable and adaptive benchmark with six dimensions of human agency based…
Recently, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic’s Claude AIexperienced a brief service interruption that affected its API, console, and core product functionalities. Although the downtime lasted only a few minutes, this incident has once again raised concerns about the dependency on AI toolsand the issue of API stability. Chronology of the Claude AI Outage According to feedback from developers on GitHub and HackerNews, the issue began to manifest around 12:20 PM Eastern Time. Anthropic officially confirmed the situation eight minutes later and quickly initiated repairs. In a subsequent statement, Anthropic noted that the interruption occurred around 9:30 AM Pacific Time, and…
The Beijing-based start-up behind the popular artificial intelligence video generator PixVerse has raised US$60 million in a funding round led by Alibaba Group Holding, the largest single amount raised by a domestic AI video generation firm, according to an announcement on Wednesday.Other participants in the funding round included Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm Antler and the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund. A valuation was not disclosed.The deal comes as China’s Big Tech firms are looking at niche AI start-ups to complement their own offerings and final products.Founded in April 2023 by former Microsoft and ByteDance executive Wang Changhu, AIsphere’s video…
India is emerging as a core pillar of IBM’s global strategy. Sandip Patel, managing director, IBM India, tells Urvi Malvania how deep R&D, expanding software labs, and tier-2 city hubs are powering innovation and strengthening the company’s ‘technology trinity’ of hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum. Excerpts: How do you describe IBM India’s focus today? We operate as a microcosm of IBM globally, with our strategy centred on hybrid cloud and AI. Increasingly, we are also adding quantum computing to this mix. I call this our “technology trinity” of hybrid cloud, AI and quantum — building enterprise solutions that…