Over 2 million Kenyans will benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS) free AI training. Participants will have access to a wide range of resources and online courses.
The Amazon Fire TV 2-Series starts at $119.99 after a 40% discount. It has Fire TV pre-installed, is Alexa compatible, and can stream live TV with no cable.
London-based AI unicorn Stability has laid off about a tenth of its workforce as part of a “strategic plan to reduce” costs just weeks after the departure of its founder and CEO. The layoffs, affecting around 20 staff, were announced by Stability in a company-wide memo on Wednesday evening, first published by Business Insider. The […]
While buzzy AI startups like OpenAI and Stable Diffusion have caught marketers’ attention, many lesser-known gen AI startups have secured investments and contracts with major brands such as L'Oréal, ESPN, Pepsi, and Garnier. AI funding in the U.S. grew by 14% year-over-year in 2023, (OpenAI released ChatGPT in Nov. 2022), raising $42.5 billion across 2,500 equity rounds, per CB Insights. There is a ballooning number of gen AI startups—Dealroom counts some 1,200—which are solving problems...
Microsoft has launched a UK AI startup accelerator in partnership with London-based private investing platform Seedrs. The Series AI programme aims to help participating startups build and integrate AI technology. The four-week accelerator, open to startups from Seed to Series A stage, will include mentorship, resource sharing and commercialisation support. “Over the last few years, […]
Microsoft's AI lead could be the driving factor in helping it topple Amazon's dominance in cloud services.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Microsoft and Amazon’s dealings with AI start-ups, inviting comment from market players to determine if recent partnerships have the potential to hurt competition in the country.
Former Stanford president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, is the CEO of new biopharma startup, Xaira. The startup already has $1 billion in investments and seeks to use AI to generate molecules to treat diseases.
"Fallout" will return for a second season after the series based on the popular video game was renewed by Amazon Prime Video just days after debuting
Amazon has announced Maestro, an AI powered playlist that can help users put together songs based on their requests.
AI chatbots transformed writing, image generation, and -- most recently -- audio. Whether it is a text-to-music generator, voice cloner, or playlist generator, every day there's a new audio AI tool introduced. Now Amazon Music has jumped on the trend.Also: GPT-4 Turbo reclaims 'best AI model' crown from Anthropic's Claude 3On Tuesday, Amazon Music launched Maestro, an AI playlist generator that responds to a user's text, emoji, or voice prompt to create a new playlist with a unique selection of...
Amazon Music is joining Spotify in starting to offer a generative AI-powered playlist feature. For now, Maestro is available in beta to a small number of Amazon Music users in the US on iOS and Android. Folks who are included in the beta will see Maestro on the home screen after they update to the latest version of the app. They can also access the tool by tapping the plus button to create a new playlist. The idea is to use natural language prompts to create any kind of playlist imaginable. Your...