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Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Total federal support is now C$5.6M, and the programme has helped 30 firms since 2024.
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Cohere has completed the first close of its Series E round, which it aims to grow to as much as C$7bn. The Toronto AI company says that would value it at C$35.7bn. The Government of Canada is among the new investors.
Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini.
Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
Chipmaker Marvell Technology is in advanced talks to buy Lumentum, which makes the lasers that move data between AI chips. Marvell would likely pay in shares, and the companies could announce a deal as soon as next week, according to Bloomberg.
The company will also notify parents about conversations with Meta AI.
OpenAI has reorganised its Model Spec, the public rulebook for its AI, around five values led by faithfulness to human intent. It adds guidance on context and human agency, drops most style rules and renames the model GPT. OpenAI admits its models do not yet fully follow it.
Baseten released joey-1, a 2B open-weights “decision model” that returns an answer and a probability rather than text. It costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms, Baseten says. It joins the larger mammoth-1 and elephant-1 launched last week.
FuriosaAI, a Seoul-based maker of AI inference chips, has raised $620m in a Series D round. The round values it at about $2.9bn. South Korea’s National Growth Fund put in $280m, making it the largest investor. The company announced the round in a press release and a blog post.
Olivier Pailhès, who co-founded Aircall in Paris in 2014, has returned as its chief executive. He replaces Scott Chancellor and takes over a business phone company that now sells AI voice agents. Aircall announced the change on Thursday in a press release.
Voice AI company Deepgram is buying Daily, the maker of Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice agents. Pipecat will stay open source and free under its existing BSD V2 licence. The companies are also setting up an independent Pipecat Foundation.
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