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Databricks has made its Genie app for Slack generally available. Staff can ask it data questions in a channel or direct message, get charts and approve changes in tools such as Jira. Answers use each asker’s permissions, but are visible to the whole channel by default.
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AWS released AWS Emulator, a free, CC0-licensed local emulator of AWS APIs built from 438 API models. Autonomous agents wrote all of its code. It passes 56.6% of 42,857 published fidelity tests at launch.
Germany’s former health minister Karl Lauterbach has said that curing cancer, Alzheimer’s and mental illness within ten years is impossible. He was answering Dario Amodei, whose company’s IPO roadshow video says those diseases will be “relics of the past” within a decade.
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
Anthropic has formally decided that it meets its own threshold for AI dramatically speeding up its research. It based the call on “what we expect from future models and our overall rate of progress,” not on its current models, it wrote in its amended IPO filing on 10 November.
SoftBank lost over $3 billion pre-ordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here’s what the loss means to power markets.
Anthropic’s share sale has drawn orders for several times the shares on offer, Bloomberg reported on 11 November, citing people familiar with the matter. Large, anchor-size orders drove the demand, the people said.
Google and Samsung have opened preorders for their first Gemini smart glasses, made with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The nine styles cost $395 to $489, have a 12-megapixel camera and ship on 10 December. Google is stressing privacy features as it takes on Meta.
Gama, the French company building ultra-light deployable solar arrays for satellites, has raised a €15M seed round from Transition, Planet A, Draper Associates, and Manta Ray.
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia’s president, CEO, and board member, effective immediately, the company’s board announced today, ending a 33-year run in which he built the chipmaker he co-founded into the roughly $4T centrepiece of the AI boom.
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