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Typeface, a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures.
Founded by former Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis, Typeface attempts to combine generative AI with a brand’s tone, audiences and workflows to — as Parasnis rather aspirationally puts it — “reimagine&rd

When you name your company Boston Dynamics, certain geographical constraints are inserted into the operation. While the Spot-maker is, by many accounts, a global brand, it’s one that remains deeply tied to Massachusetts, even as it’s changed hands between owners in California, Japan and, most recently, South Korea.
Headquarter a dozen miles outside of downtown Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, the robotics firm’s roots are firmly planted in Beantown.“I grew up in New Jers

Microsoft is wasting no time bringing its new AI-powered Bing to all of its products. After introducing it in its Edge browser and then bringing it to the Edge, Bing and Skype apps on mobile, today it’s Windows 11’s turn to welcome the new Bing to its taskbar.
This is part of a major Windows 11 upgrade that also includes the first preview of Phone Link for iOS, which will let you take calls and respond to messages from your iPhone on your Windows PC, tabs in the default Notepad app,

Eric Landau Contributor Before Eric Landau co-founded Encord, he spent nearly a decade at DRW, where he was lead quantitative researcher on a global equity delta one desk and put thousands of models into production. He holds an S.M. in Applied Physics from Harvard University, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University.During the past six months, we have witnessed some incredible developments in AI. The release of Stable Diffusion forever changed the artworld

We spell out the key terms behind the AI revolution – and why they matter. Plus, this week’s top tech storiesDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereI took six weeks off to raise a baby and everyone decided it was the time to declare the AI revolution imminent. It’s hard not to take it personally.The tick-tock of new developments, each more impressive than the last – and each arriving on the scene faster than the last – hi

We spell out the key terms behind the AI revolution – and why they matter. Plus, this week’s top tech storiesDon’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article hereI took six weeks off to raise a baby and everyone decided it was the time to declare the AI revolution imminent. It’s hard not to take it personally.The tick-tock of new developments, each more impressive than the last – and each arriving on the scene faster than the last – hi

No company is immune from the generative AI wave, and everybody wants in. Meta is the latest entrant in testing AI-powered tools for its products. Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company is building “a new top-level product group” to integrate generative AI into its services used by billions of users.
Zuckerberg said the team will focus on building creative tools at first, but its long-term goal is to create “AI personas that can help people in a variety of ways.”

The FTC, fresh off announcing a whole new division taking on “snake oil” in tech, has sent another shot across the bows of the over-eager industry with a sassy warning to “keep your AI claims in check.”
I wrote a little while ago (okay, five years) that “AI Powered” is the meaningless tech equivalent of “all natural,” but it has progressed beyond cheeky. It seems like just about every product out there claims to implement AI in some way or another,