AI Update - Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Seth Waters
Chief Growth Officer at Fortuna (3x Inc. 5000, 2x Vet100) | VP of Comms at Space Force Association NorCal | ?? Most Impactful CMO's 2024 | Editor-in-Chief at AI Insights Newsletter
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Pour one out for?CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of.
CodeWhisperer is now?Q Developer, a part of Amazon’s Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced?Q Business. Available through AWS,?Q Developer helps?with some of the tasks developers do in the course of their daily work, like debugging and upgrading apps, troubleshooting and performing security scans — much like CodeWhisperer did.
The European Commission has again been urged to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a?controversial piece of tech policy?that could see a law mandate the scanning of European Union citizens’ private messages in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
OpenAI has?landed a new content deal with the FT. But instead of being a merely simple deal in which OpenAI gets words, and FT gets money, the two are teaming up a bit more deeply. Look to see FT.com links in?ChaptGPT?in the future.
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Harvesting fish is an inherently messy business, what with being at sea, the slippery creatures wriggling around and everything else.?Shinkei?is working to improve it with an automated system that more humanely and reliably dispatches the fish, resulting in what could be a totally different seafood economy.
Amazon may be scaling back its?AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech?in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts, but Walmart-owned Sam’s Club says it’s turning to AI to speed up its own exit technology. Instead of requiring store staff to check members’ purchases against their receipts when leaving the store, Sam’s Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked.
Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity.
“We’ve witnessed an evolving business climate that brought along with it an unprecedented need for improved security processes,” Arnon told TechCrunch. “Security’s importance has increased exponentially … [it’s] non-negotiable for technology buyers.”
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking?saccades?can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues. That’s why French-Belgian medtech startup?neuroClues?is building accessible, high-speed eye-tracking technology that incorporates AI-driven analysis. It wants to make it easier for healthcare service providers to use eye tracking to support the diagnosis of neurodegenerative conditions.