Author: Advanced AI Editor

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. Read previous interviews with GV (formerly Google Ventures), Felicis, Battery Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Costanoa, Citi Ventures, Sierra Ventures and Andrew Ng of AI Fund, as well as highlights from more interviews done in 2023. Foundation Capital is betting big on markets that don’t yet exist. In March, the 30-year-old venture firm closed a new $600 million fund to back technical founders at the earliest stages — often before there’s even a product — with…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Amazon is expanding its Multi-Channel Fulfillment service to support merchants’ sales on Walmart, Shopify and Shein as part of several new features in its supply chain portfolio, according to Dharmesh Mehta, vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Services. “Now, already we’ve just launched for orders from Walmart,” Mehta told sister publication Supply Chain Dive. “We’re expanding our partnership with Shopify, and then coming later this year, we’ll support Shein.” Multi-Channel Fulfillment manages picking, packing and delivering operations across sales channels such as Etsy,…

Michael Kuzminov is the CEO of HypeFactory, a global AI-powered influencer marketing agency.Marketing is undergoing a profound transformation, with artificial intelligence at the forefront of this process. Traditional search and advertising methods still matter, but brands can no longer depend solely on organic rankings or conventional campaigns to maintain their presence. AI-powered search engines and digital assistants have completely changed the way consumers interact with brands. To ensure they remain visible, marketing specialists must fully understand and embrace the rise of AI search.The Shift In Brand DiscoveryAI-driven search tools now aggregate information and provide concise, direct answers, often reducing the…

Source: Spicy Car News What kind of car is a car that “understands you”? SAIC Roewe M7 DMH has launched an “AI Smart Cabin that Thinks Deeply,” which is the first in the world to feature the Doubao Deep Thinking Large Model. It will redefine human-vehicle interaction, achieving a revolutionary leap from command-based to natural human-like interaction. Can you believe that such an understanding car is priced starting at only 85,800 yuan? Currently, smart cabins have become the core area of competition in the industry. While incorporating the Deep Thinking Large Model, the Roewe M7 also opens the most vehicle…

It is now possible to create short videos and even original music using AI tools by responding to a text prompt, image, or simple idea. The guide shows how this process works, what to bear in mind in order to achieve quality results, and a real-life workflow that you can use. Clipfly is a single-title AI-based media platform that allows users to create a video and song with zero special skills. Its AI video creator (free on the web) can turn text or images into animated videos, but the AI music creator can compose original music according to your texts.…

Sam Altman says he’s “confident” that AI will first take over customer service roles as it transforms the job market. Speaking on ‘The Tucker Carlson Show’ last Wednesday, Altman stated: I’m confident that a lot of current customer support that happens over a phone or computer, those people will lose their jobs, and that’ll be better done by an AI.The CEO didn’t only pick on customer service jobs; he suggested programmers could be next, as AI makes its presence felt.  “Someone told me recently that the historical average is about 50 percent of jobs significantly change… every 75 years, on average,” he…

Systemic gaps in oversight Analysts point out that this is not just a DeepSeek issue but a systemic risk across the AI foundational model ecosystem, citing the lack of cross-border standardization and governance. “As the number of foundation models proliferates and enterprises increasingly build applications or code on top of them, it becomes imperative for CIOs and IT leaders to establish and follow a robust multi-level due diligence framework,” Shah said. “That framework should ensure training data transparency, strong data privacy, security governance policies, and at the very least, rigorous checks for geopolitical biases, censorship influence, and potential IP violations.”…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Rent the Runway’s focus on customer experience shows signs of paying off as the rental platform increased both active subscribers and satisfaction, executives said on a Q2 earnings call last week.  The company’s average net promoter score for subscriptions increased 77% year over year, the highest it has been in three years, according to co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman. The company increased prices for subscriptions on Aug. 1 for the first time in three years to account for inflation and…

New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): IBM and BharatGen have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India, powered by BharatGen’s sovereign multimodal and Large Language Models (LLMs) tailored to the country’s linguistic and cultural needs, as per a press release.The partnership brings together IBM’s expertise in AI, data governance and model training with BharatGen’s mandate to build inclusive, India-centric AI systems. The goal is to create sovereign AI models rooted in local languages, values and contexts, while expanding their applications across education, agriculture, healthcare, banking and citizen services.”With IBM’s strength in enterprise-grade platforms…

Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US.   China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday, as first reported by the Financial Times.   The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and ordering Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D server, a device designed specifically for the market in China.   Beijing had previously discouraged companies from buying these chips in late August, instead promoting alternatives from local manufacturers. This ban will deliver quite a blow to China’s tech ecosystem. While companies like Huawei…