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Industry

Cognition Acquires Poke to Give Devin Coding Agent a Personality

Cognition, the startup behind AI coding assistant Devin, has acquired Poke, an AI assistant known for its friendly, conversational style. The deal, valued in the low nine figures, aims to bring Poke's personality-driven interaction model to Devin, making the coding agent feel more like a colleague than a tool. Poke will also benefit from Cognition's models and infrastructure to become faster and more reliable.

Jul 243 minNeura News

AI Models

Cohere Transcribe Arabic open-source model targets dialect challenges

Cohere has launched Cohere Transcribe Arabic, an open-source 2-billion-parameter ASR model designed for Arabic speech recognition. The company claims it is the most accurate open-source Arabic speech-to-text system, outperforming Whisper Large V3 and the standard Cohere Transcribe model in benchmarks. The model handles dialect variety, code-switching, bilingual conversations, and specialized vocabulary.

Jul 72 minNeura News

Industry

Google DeepMind Staff Unionize Over AI Military Contracts

Workers at Google DeepMind's London headquarters have voted to unionize to stop the company's AI technology from supporting Israel and the US military. A letter to management seeks recognition for the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union, backed by 98 percent of CWU members. The effort includes demands to avoid harmful contracts and allow staff to opt out of unethical projects.

May 54 minNeura News

Funding

NeoCognition Raises $40M Seed for Human-Like AI Agents

NeoCognition, a new AI research lab from Ohio State professor Yu Su, emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding. The company aims to create AI agents that self-learn and specialize in any domain, much like humans do. Backed by Cambium Capital, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Vista Equity Partners, and notable angels, NeoCognition targets enterprises needing reliable agent workers.

Apr 213 minNeura News

Industry

Clarifai Deletes 3M OkCupid Photos Used in Facial AI Training

Clarifai has removed 3 million photos supplied by OkCupid that were used to train its facial recognition technology, according to reports. The action follows an FTC settlement with OkCupid and its parent Match Group over data sharing from 2014. Clarifai also deleted AI models built with the data, confirming access to the images despite no admission of wrongdoing by OkCupid.

Apr 213 minNeura News