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The Coramino Fund, an investment arm from the tequila brand co-founded by comedian Kevin Hart, is now accepting applications for its latest round of $10,000 grants. Grantees will also receive AI training to help address the divide that exists between larger businesses and smaller operations run by people from marginalized communities. The three-year-old Coramino Fund, an investment arm from Kevin Hart and Juan Domingo Beckmann’s Gran Coramino Tequila, announced Thursday that applications are now open for its latest round of grants aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses from under-resourced communities. As part of the deal, grantees will receive $10,000 to…

SoundHound AI, Domo, Plug Power, Corcept, and 8×8 Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a cautious stance on future monetary policy decisions during a speech in Chicago, emphasizing that trade tariffs could add upward pressure to inflation in the short term and complicate the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy. He warned that such trade measures are “likely to move us further away from our goals,” referring to the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment. The comments did little…

This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. Creating passable video content via AI is becoming more viable, which, given the popularity of video across all social apps, could be a massive help for digital marketers. Though it does come with some risks. Today, Google has announced expanded access to its Veo 2 AI video generation model, which can generate 8 second clips from text prompts. As you can see in these examples, Veo 2 outputs short video clips from simple descriptions, which you…

OpenAI says that it deployed a new system to monitor its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. The system aims to prevent the models from offering advice that could instruct someone on carrying out potentially harmful attacks, according to OpenAI’s safety report. O3 and o4-mini represent a meaningful capability increase over OpenAI’s previous models, the company says, and thus pose new risks in the hands of bad actors. According to OpenAI’s internal benchmarks, o3 is more skilled at answering questions around creating certain types of biological threats in particular. For this…

Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and using signals such as business impersonation and illegitimate payment details, the search giant said it could suspend a “vast majority” of ad accounts before they ever served an ad. Last year, Google launched over 50 LLM enhancements to improve its safety enforcement mechanisms across all its platforms. “While these AI models are very, very important to us and have delivered…

Good morning! In a pre-AI world, consulting firms would grapple with creatively building teams for projects. During what Kimberly Jones, PwC’s managing director of talent strategy and people experience, jokingly calls “the olden days,” employees would typically pick people they knew to join them for certain work. But now, with the firm relying on AI to help upskill and track the skills of its hundreds of thousands of employees, workers at PwC are taking a different approach and selecting teammates based on the expertise needed for the project–whether they’ve worked with them before or not. This kind of collaboration is…

A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok. The goal is to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects, the developer told TechCrunch, including political criticism and questions about civil rights and protest. AI companies have been focusing on fine-tuning how their models handle certain topics as some White House allies accuse popular chatbots of being overly “woke.” Many of President Donald Trump’s close confidants, such as Elon Musk and crypto and AI “czar” David Sacks, have alleged that chatbots censor…

In an effort to tiptoe the reputational path in a highly uncertain business environment, such as the current geopolitical landscape, companies must watch out not to be associated with or criticised by Elon Musk, as these are among the top reputational risks. This is according to a new Reputation Risk Index, commissioned by public relations firm Global Situation Room, using data from crisis experts and analysis from the Global Risk Advisory Council. The council counts more than 100 members, including the likes of former CIA Director Leon Panetta and MI6 Chief Sir Richard Dearlove as well as former heads of…

No company has cashed in on the generative AI boom quite like Nvidia, whose chips and software help power AI used by Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Tesla. So it’s no surprise that as President Trump moves to impose tariffs on semiconductors—after initially carving out an exemption—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is looking to strike a deal to reduce the impact of potential tariffs on his company. But his efforts so far have highlighted the mixed AI policy messages coming from the Trump administration. For example, after Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House supposedly…

Nvidia’s Blackwell chip displayed at an event in Tokyo in November. Nvidia plans to produce AI supercomputer chips entirely in the United States for the first time. The semiconductor maker said in a blog post Monday that it had commissioned more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its Blackwell chips in Phoenix and is building supercomputer plants in Houston and Dallas. Nvidia said it would take at least a year to reach mass production scale at both plants. At the same time, Nvidia said its Blackwell chips have already started production at Phoenix chip…