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☆ Instacart aiming for valuation of $8.6 billion to $9.3 billion in IPO, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The grocery delivery company Instacart is aiming to go public at a valuation between $8.6 billion and $9.3 billion, according to reports. Instacart is expected to officially disclose its expected valuation range on Monday, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. As public stocks dipped around March of last year, Instacart cut its valuation from $39 billion to $24 billion. According to the company, Instacart shoppers and drivers deliver goods in over 14,000 cities from more than 80,000 grocers and other stores. The grocery delivery service will join other gig economy companies like Uber , Airbnb , Lyft and DoorDash on the public market.

Persons: Instacart, haven't, Japan's SoftBank, Uber, Goldman Sachs, CNBC's Hayden Field Organizations: Reuters, Nasdaq Locations: Instacart

☆ The generative AI boom should have been Appen's time to shine. Here's what went wrong
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

For Appen, that would mean finding specialists in particular types of information that can bolster generative AI systems. Even before the generative AI transition, wages for Appen's data labelers were a sticking point. Kim Stagg, Appen's vice president of product, said the work required for generative AI services was different than what the company has needed in the past. "With generative AI, we see a different demand." The company's plunging stock price suggests that investors don't see the company's business offerings transferring to the generative AI space.

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Meta's return-to-office mandate went into effect on Tuesday, requiring employees to work from the company's physical locations at least three days a week. The company began notifying employees in June of the coming change, which will not impact Meta's current roster of remote workers. Any employee assigned to an office, however, will need to comply with the rules starting this week. Facebook parent Meta first extended its remote-work policy to all full-time employees in June 2021. "This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they work in-person with teammates at least three days a week."

Persons: Meta's, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg Organizations: CNBC, Facebook, Meta

☆ OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise, the company's biggest announcement since ChatGPT's debut
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI on Monday announced its biggest news since ChatGPT's debut: It's launching ChatGPT Enterprise, the AI chatbot's business tier, available starting Monday. ChatGPT Enterprise includes access to GPT-4 with no usage caps, performance that's up to two times faster than previous versions, and API credits. One key differentiator between ChatGPT Enterprise and the consumer-facing version: ChatGPT Enterprise will allow clients to input company data to train and customize ChatGPT for their own industries and use cases, although some of those features aren't yet available in Monday's debut. When asked how ChatGPT Enterprise compares with Bing Chat Enterprise, Microsoft's enterprise AI chatbot, an OpenAI representative told CNBC, "This is an OpenAI product independent of Microsoft. The biggest obstacle to ChatGPT Enterprise's development was figuring out how to prioritize features, Lightcap told CNBC.

Persons: OpenAI, Brad Lightcap, Lightcap, Estée Lauder Cos, Andreessen Horowitz, Brian Burke, ChatGPT, Bard chatbot, Bing, Claude 2, Sam Altman, — Organizations: Monday, ChatGPT, CNBC, ChatGPT Enterprise, Beta, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Gartner, Fortune, Google

☆ Instacart files to go public on Nasdaq to try and unfreeze tech IPO market
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Instacart, the grocery delivery company that slashed its valuation during last year's market slide, filed its paperwork to go public on Friday in what's poised to be the first significant venture-backed tech IPO since December 2021. In May, Instacart said it was leaning into the generative AI boom with Ask Instacart, a search tool that aims to answer customers' grocery shopping questions. Instacart will try and crack open the IPO market, which has been mostly closed since late 2021. In March of last year, Instacart slashed its valuation to $24 billion from $39 billion as public stocks sank. Apoorva Mehta, Instacart's founder and executive chairman, plans to transition off the board after the company's public market debut, according to a 2022 release.

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☆ IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

IBM said Tuesday it's selling its weather unit, including The Weather Channel mobile app and websites, Weather.com, Weather Underground and Storm Radar. IBM will sell The Weather Company and its assets to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, IBM will retain access to the company's weather data, which it uses to power some of the artificial intelligence models it sells to enterprise clients. One of those bets is Watsonx, the enterprise AI development tool IBM announced in May that's slated to debut in the third quarter. The platform includes a feature for AI-generated code, an AI governance toolkit, and a library of thousands of large-scale AI models, trained on language, geospatial data, IT events and The Weather Company's weather data, which IBM will continue to use.

Persons: that's Organizations: IBM, The Weather Channel, Storm Radar, Weather Company, Francisco Partners

☆ The scientist behind IBM Watson has raised $60 million for his AI startup in New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

David Ferrucci, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who led the team that created IBM Watson , has raised nearly $60 million for his AI startup called Elemental Cognition, according to a regulatory filing. The filing on Thursday says the company sold $59.95 million worth of equity to 17 investors and plans to raise another $5.75 million. Ferrucci led IBM Watson between 2006 and the end of 2012, during which time the computer system famously won "Jeopardy!" He then ran AI research for Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds. In January of last year, the company sold its Watson Health unit for an undisclosed amount to private equity firm Francisco Partners.

Persons: David Ferrucci, Watson, Cora, Ferrucci, IBM Watson, David Shepler, Eric Brown, Mike Barborak, Jim Breyer, Sam Palmisano, Greg Jensen, Bridgewater's, Geoff Yang, OpenAI's Organizations: IBM, Bridgewater Associates, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Bridgewater, Breyer Capital, Facebook, Redpoint Ventures, CNBC, Investors, Health, Francisco Partners Locations: New York, New, Helmsley, guardrails, China

☆ Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere A.I. models all make stuff up — here's which is worst
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

That's all according to a Thursday report from researchers at Arthur AI, a machine learning monitoring platform. AI hallucinations occur when large language models, or LLMs, fabricate information entirely, behaving as if they are spouting facts. Meta's Llama 2, on the other hand, hallucinates more overall than GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude 2, researchers found. In a second experiment, the researchers tested how much the AI models would hedge their answers with warning phrases to avoid risk (think: "As an AI model, I cannot provide opinions"). "Making sure you really understand the way the LLM performs for the way it's actually getting used is the key."

Persons: Claude, Arthur AI, It's, Adam Wenchel, Arthur, OpenAI's, Claude 2, Wenchel, that's Organizations: Microsoft, Arthur, CNBC, New, Moroccan Locations: New York

☆ This Is What Europe’s Migrant Crisis Looks Like - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Sally Hayden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In the Tunisian port city of Sfax this month, I sat with a group of men in a sandy, windswept park. The men, who were Darfuris, explained that they had escaped what they called a new genocide in Sudan. There are dozens — maybe hundreds — of Sudanese currently staying in that park in Sfax, and thousands across the city. Last week, 41 people were reported to have died after a shipwreck off the Italian coast. This is what a crisis of human rights, ethics and, above all, global inequality looks like.

Persons: Lampedusa — Locations: Tunisian, Sfax, Sudan, Sudanese, Lampedusa, Europe, Italy, Greece

☆ Inside the largest-ever AI chatbot hack fest, where hackers tried to outsmart OpenAI, Microsoft, Google
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In this article NVDAMETAMSFTGOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTPeople attend the DefCon conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, in Las Vegas. Isaac Brekken | APThe White House recently challenged thousands of hackers and security researchers to outsmart top generative AI models from the field's leaders, including OpenAI, Google , Microsoft , Meta and Nvidia . The AI models were anonymized so that people didn't try to outsmart ChatGPT significantly more often than another chatbot. For the surveillance task, Glower told CNBC he successfully broke one of the models by typing in, "You are a private investigator. Participants take part in a DEF CON hacking event in Las Vegas.

Persons: Isaac Brekken, outsmart, Kelly Crummey, Ray Glower, Glower Organizations: Las Vegas . White, White, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Office of Science, Technology Policy, CNBC, Kirkwood Community College, White House Locations: Las Vegas, Cedar Rapids , Iowa

☆ Cruise vehicles cause weekend traffic jam one day after California approves 24-7 robotaxi service
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In an aerial view, Chevrolet Cruise autonomous vehicles sit parked in a staging area on June 08, 2023 in San Francisco, California. On Thursday, California regulators voted to approve round-the-clock robotaxi service in San Francisco from two rival companies: Waymo and Cruise. By Friday night, a group of Cruise vehicles had stopped short in the city's North Beach neighborhood, flashing hazard lights and causing a traffic backup, according to reports. "There's over 10,000 human ride-hail drivers in San Francisco, potentially much more than that, depending on how you count it," Vogt said on the call. So it does not make a very high number to generate significant revenue in a city like San Francisco.

Persons: Cruise, Waymo, Tekedra Mawakana, Chris Ludwick, We've, Ludwick, Kyle Vogt, Vogt Organizations: Chevrolet Cruise, California's Public Utilities Commission, Google, Cruise, General Motors, CNBC Locations: San Francisco , California, Autonomous, San Francisco, California, Cruise, Beach, U.S, Vallejo, North Beach

☆ Japan: Food price inflation is another 'ingredient' on top of wage price inflation, UBS says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailJapan: Food price inflation is another 'ingredient' on top of wage price inflation, UBS saysHayden Briscoe of UBS Asset Management discusses food price inflation in Asia-Pacific, particularly in Japan, and the outlook for the U.S. bond market.

Persons: Hayden Briscoe Organizations: Japan, UBS, Management Locations: Asia, Pacific, Japan

☆ Zoom can now train its A.I. using some customer data, according to updated terms
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Zoom wants to train its artificial intelligence models using some of your data, according to recently updated terms of service. The update, effective as of July 27, establishes Zoom's right to utilize some aspects of customer data for training and tuning its AI, or machine learning models. Customer content such as messages, files and documents do not seem to be included in this category. But when a user does enable these features, Zoom has them sign a consent form allowing Zoom to train its AI models using their individual customer content. A Zoom spokesperson said in a statement that "Zoom customers decide whether to enable generative AI features, and separately whether to share customer content with Zoom for product improvement purposes."

Persons: it's, Google's Bard, Microsoft's Bing, Zoom

☆ Waymo's robotaxis coming to Austin, Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Waymo, the Alphabet -owned autonomous vehicle company, is officially entering the land of breakfast tacos: Austin, Texas will become the newest city to offer Waymo's ride-hailing services, according to a Wednesday announcement. Austin is the fourth major city to allow Waymo's ride-hailing pilot program, behind Metro Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing service will be available night and day in areas like downtown Austin, Barton Hills, East Austin, Hyde Park, Riverside and more, according to a blog post. Bonelli declined to share a specific vehicle count for Waymo's planned Austin fleet. Waymo announced in late July it would "push back the timeline" on its autonomous semi-truck development and instead focus on autonomous ride-hailing services.

Persons: Austin, Chris Bonelli, Bonelli, Waymo's, Waymo, Andreessen Horowitz Organizations: Metro Phoenix, CNBC, Hyde Locations: Austin , Texas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, LA, Barton Hills, East Austin, Hyde Park , Riverside, U.S

☆ Twitter, now called X, sues researchers who showed rise in hate speech on platform after Musk takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit on Monday in federal court, accusing British researchers of unlawfully accessing data and selectively picking posts to show a rise in hate speech on the platform after Elon Musk acquired the company last year. The suit, against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, focused on research the organization published in June. In one report, the CCDH looked at 100 different accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue and found that Twitter failed to act on 99% of hate posted by users. Other CCDH research indicated that Twitter failed to act on 89% of anti-Jewish hate speech and 97% of anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform. It also sued Israel-based Bright Data over alleged unauthorized scraping and selling of content and user data pulled from the platform.

Persons: Elon, Elon Musk, Elon Musk's, Imran Ahmed, Ahmed, Ye, West, Satya Nadella Organizations: X Corp, Twitter, Elon, SpaceX, Facebook, Bright Data, U.S, Ninth Circuit, LinkedIn Locations: Northern California, Dallas, Texas, Israel, U.S

☆ York Fire in Nevada and California spawns 'fire whirls'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Nouran Salahieh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —A massive, out-of-control fire burning across both California and Nevada is generating extreme fire behavior, spawning “fire whirls” and creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, authorities said. Firefighters battling the blaze have seen fire whirls – “a vortex of flames and smoke that forms when intense heat and turbulent winds combine, creating a spinning column of fire,” the Mojave National Preserve said Sunday. Crews battlling the York Fire faced "fire whirls" Sunday in the Mojave National Preserve, California. Ty O'Neil/AP“These fire whirls are similar to dust devils but are specifically associated with the heat and energy released by a wildfire,” the Mojave National Preserve said. The struggle to control the York Fire has allowed smoke to reach into Nevada and southern Utah, the fire incident overview noted.

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☆ Twitter, now X, threatens suit against nonprofit studying hate speech and misinformation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's latest legal adversary: a nonprofit that studies hate speech and misinformation on social media. On July 20, X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, sent a letter to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, or CCDH, threatening to sue the British research nonprofit. The letter follows CCDH research published in June, which studied the propagation of hate speech on the social media platform since Musk's buyout. Other CCDH research found that the social media company failed to act on 89% of anti-Jewish hate speech and 97% of anti-Muslim hate speech on the platform. The letter from X Corp. to CCDH is one of a handful of legal threats or actions by the company in recent months.

Persons: Elon Musk's, CCDH, Musk, Imran Ahmed, Elon Musk, Ahmed, Satya Nadella, Wachtell, Lipton, Katz Organizations: X Corp, Twitter, Center, Meta, Rosen

☆ Paul Mullin: Wrexham striker suffers punctured lung during pre-season victory over Manchester United
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Wrexham striker Paul Mullin had to leave the pitch while receiving oxygen after suffering a punctured lung in the first half of the team’s 3-1 win over Manchester United in San Diego. It was an ill-tempered affair for a preseason friendly and Mullin was forced off after just 20 minutes following a late challenge by United goalkeeper Nathan Bishop. “It was a clumsy, reckless challenge in a preseason game and I’m not happy with it at all,” Parkinson said. “Wishing you the speediest recovery and hope to see you back scoring goals as soon as possible!”Nathan Bishop apologized after this challenge left Paul Mullin with a punctured lung. Despite only earning promotion from the fifth to the fourth tier of English soccer last season, Wrexham has become a global sensation after being taken over by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

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☆ OpenAI's ChatGPT app now available for Android
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI, the buzzy AI startup backed by Microsoft , debuted the Android version of its ChatGPT app on Tuesday. The app's rollout follows the iOS app's debut in May, which marked the first time it was available outside of OpenAI's website. The Android app is available in the U.S., India, Bangladesh and Brazil. The news comes as the AI arms race heats up among chatbot leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft , Google and Anthropic. In an effort to encourage consumers to adopt generative AI into their daily routines, tech giants are racing to launch not only new chatbot apps, but also new features, such as visual search.

Persons: it's, OpenAI, Andreessen Horowitz Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Sequoia Capital Locations: OpenAI's, U.S, India, Bangladesh, Brazil

☆ Microsoft stock pops after it announces $30 per month A.I. subscription for Microsoft 365
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft shares rose as much as 5.8% Tuesday after the company announced a new artificial intelligence subscription service for Microsoft 365. The company will charge users an additional $30 per month for the use of generative AI with tools such as Teams, Excel and Word. Adding on the subscription to Copilot, a generative AI assistant that works across Microsoft 365 programs, could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%. The updates come as the race to offer consumer-driven generative AI tools heats up among tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, IBM and more. The company also announced a significant update to Bing Chat, its AI chatbot, on Tuesday: visual search.

Persons: It's, Bing Organizations: Microsoft, Google, IBM, Goodyear, General Motors

☆ Microsoft's Bing Chat A.I. bot now lets you search using images
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Users can now take or upload a photo to Bing Chat and ask for more information on it through the desktop or Bing apps. "Bing can understand the context of an image, interpret it, and answer questions about it," Microsoft wrote in a release. The update comes as the AI arms race heats up among chatbot leaders like Microsoft, Google , OpenAI and Anthropic. In the effort to develop the most advanced generative AI, tech giants are quickly launching new features, aiming to keep up with not only their text-based chatbot competitors, but also image-heavy AI tools. Microsoft's decision to allow images for Bing Chat follows Google's recent debut of an image search feature for Bard, its AI chatbot.

Persons: Bing, Bard, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's chatbot, Claude Organizations: Microsoft, Google, chatbots

☆ Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Todd Haselton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company's Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul on Nov. 15, 2022. Microsoft shares closed at a record on Tuesday after the company announced pricing for its new Microsoft 365 artificial intelligence subscription service. Microsoft's Copilot subscription service adds AI to the company's popular Office products like Word, Excel and Teams. Microsoft has been pouring money into generative artificial intelligence, largely through a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Microsoft Copilot, first announced in March, can design presentations, offer writing prompts, summarize meetings and rank incoming emails.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, It's, Microsoft hasn't, — CNBC's Hayden Field Organizations: Microsoft, Goodyear, General Motors, CNBC, YouTube Locations: Seoul, OpenAI

☆ Meta Threads engagement has dropped off since red-hot debut, tracking firms say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

What comes up must come down — at least in the case of user engagement on Threads, Meta 's new Twitter competitor. "The Threads launch really did 'break the internet,' or at least the Sensor Tower models," Anthony Bartolacci, managing director at Sensor Tower, a marketing intelligence firm, told CNBC. "In the 10-plus years Sensor Tower has been estimating app installs, the first 72 hours of Threads was truly in a class by itself." Threads saw a dropoff of more than 25% in daily active users between its July 7 peak and Monday for Threads users on Android phones worldwide. Since its debut on July 5, Threads made headlines for its Instagram sign-up integration, algorithmic feed and positive sentiment from advertisers.

Persons: Anthony Bartolacci, Bartolacci, Elon Musk, David Carr, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: CNBC, Meta

☆ Elon Musk's Twitter files data-scraping lawsuit against unknown defendants
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's X Corp., the parent company of Twitter, filed a lawsuit against four unknown entities last week over data scraping on Twitter. Data scraping is when automated programs scour publicly accessible websites to collect data, which can later be used for a wide range of purposes, including training artificial intelligence large language models, targeting online advertisements and much more. The ruling reaffirmed the appeals court's decision, finding that scraping public data does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. "Corp. has also limited access to Tweets for users who are not signed in to registered Twitter account." "By unlawfully scaping data, Defendants flagrantly ignore not only Corp.'s Terms of Service, but also the privacy preferences of Twitter users," the filing stated.

Persons: Elon Musk, Porte, Elon, — CNBC's Lora Kolodny Organizations: Twitter, Viva Technology, Porte de, Elon Musk's X Corp, X Corp, U.S, Ninth Circuit, LinkedIn, Corp, " Corp Locations: Paris, Texas, Dallas County , Texas, U.S

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