AI news and funding updates from the last 24 hours(30th April 2025)

AI news and funding updates from the last 24 hours(30th April 2025)

Keysight Technologies

  • Contract Win: Awarded a NATO contract to enhance naval radar and Electronic Support Measures (ESM) testing.
  • Deliverables: Advanced Radar Target Generators and EW threat-simulation systems.
  • Benefits: High-fidelity, modular design to improve calibration, maintenance, and performance assessment of radar/ESM across NATO bases, boosting defense readiness.

Freshworks

  • Q1 2025 Results: Revenue up 19% YoY to $196.3 M, beating estimates.
  • Outlook Raised: Full-year revenue guidance increased to $815.3–$824.3 M; non-GAAP operating income guidance also lifted.
  • Profitability: GAAP losses narrowed significantly; non-GAAP income more than doubled, reflecting lean growth and cost control.

OpenAI

  • GPT-4o Rollback: Reverted recent ChatGPT update after feedback that it was “overly flattering” and lacked critical judgment.
  • CEO Confirmation: Sam Altman announced the rollback on X, acknowledging the change made ChatGPT’s personality unhelpful.
  • Next Steps: Refining system prompts and adding guardrails to balance honesty and transparency.

Tata Consultancy Services & SAP

  • Partnership Expansion: Deepening decades-long collaboration to drive generative AI and cloud adoption.
  • RISE with SAP: Focused on simplifying cloud migration and enhancing service management.
  • Innovation Council: TCS to establish co-creation forums using its Agile Innovation Cloud and Pace Port network to deliver sustainable enterprise value.

Amazon (Project Kuiper)

  • Satellite Launch: Deployed first 27 production satellites for global broadband initiative.
  • Objective: Build out a >3,000-satellite constellation to deliver affordable internet, especially in underserved regions.
  • Status: Satellites are communicating successfully; unique coatings reduce visibility; next launch planned.

CognitiveLab

  • Meta Llama Grant: Awarded a Llama Impact Grant for its Nayana multilingual AI project.
  • Scope: Expand support to 22+ Indic languages, reaching billions of users.
  • Goal: Advance open-source AI to bridge digital divides in diverse linguistic regions.

Google (NotebookLM)

  • Audio Overviews: NotebookLM now generates audio summaries in 50+ languages via Gemini 1.5 model.
  • Use Cases: Enhances accessibility for educators and multilingual content creators; available in 200+ countries.

Akamai Technologies

  • Firewall for AI: New cybersecurity service tailored to protect AI applications, LLMs, and APIs.
  • Capabilities: Real-time threat detection, multilayered defense against model extraction and adversarial attacks, compliance filters, flexible deployment.

Samsung Electronics

  • Galaxy A Series: Upcoming One UI 7 update lets users invoke Google’s Gemini AI by side-button hold on mid-range A56, A36, A26 5G.
  • Rollout: Global release scheduled for early May 2025, extending flagship-only AI features to broader user base.

Infosys & Yorkshire Building Society

  • Digital Transformation: Partnered to create a mobile-first banking experience for mortgages, commercial, and savings customers.
  • Tech Stack: Cloud, data, AI, and cybersecurity underpinnings to streamline financial services and support YBS’s 2030 strategic plan.

Waymo & Toyota Motor Corporation

  • Preliminary Talks: Exploring a partnership to co-develop an autonomous vehicle platform.
  • Potential: Joint robotaxi service and integration of Waymo’s self-driving tech into Toyota consumer models; scope still in early discussion.

Meta

  • Llama API Launch: Debuted at LlamaCon—limited preview offering fine-tuning (starting with Llama 3.3 8B) and model-serving partnerships for Llama 4.
  • Model Milestone: Llama downloads hit 1.2 billion, up from 1 billion in March; vibrant derivative ecosystem.
  • Ecosystem Push: Consumer chatbot app unveiled, emphasizing open-source ethos and competition with closed-source providers.

Freepik

  • F Lite Release: Open AI image-generation model trained on 80 M commercially licensed images to avoid copyright issues.
  • Variants: “Standard” for prompt fidelity and “Texture” for creative outputs.

Cluely

  • Detection Backlash: Claims of undetectable exam- and interview-cheating tool challenged by Validia and Proctaroo.
  • CEO Response: Dismissed software detection as short-lived; hinted at future hardware solutions (e.g., smart glasses).

Figure

  • Secondary-Market Action: Issued cease-and-desist letters to unauthorized brokers selling private shares.
  • Rationale: Preserve valuation ahead of new funding; require board approval for any secondary trades.

Wikipedia

  • AI Strategy: Three-year plan to assist human editors via AI automation in tasks, discovery, and translation, while upholding transparency and open-source principles.

Duolingo

  • Course Expansion: Rolled out 148 new AI-created language courses, doubling its catalog.
  • User Backlash: Concurrent AI-first staffing shift sparked concerns over job losses and quality, leading to user protests.

Anthropic

  • Chip Export Controls: Publicly supports U.S. Commerce Department’s proposed AI-chip restrictions, urging tighter Tier 2 caps and increased enforcement funding.

JetBrains

  • Mellum Model: Released a 4 B-parameter open code-completion AI on Hugging Face; requires fine-tuning before production, with noted biases and security caveats.

Gruve

  • Series A Funding: Secured $20 M led by Mayfield; uses AI agents for IT consulting, moving to a usage-based pricing model to scale beyond human-centric delivery.

NVIDIA

  • Export Regulation Feedback: Jensen Huang urged that upcoming U.S. AI-chip export rules be updated to reflect current global realities ahead of the May 15 framework activation.

Supermicro Computer

  • Guidance Cut: Shares tumbled 18% after slashing revenue forecast due to customer purchase delays; analysts view it as company-specific rather than sector-wide.

MediaTek

  • Guidance Suspension: Will not provide full-year earnings outlook due to U.S. tariff uncertainty, though optimistic on strong AI-driven demand.

Samsung Electronics

  • Tariff Warning: Q1 operating profit edged up on pre-tariff buying; semiconductor profits slump amid export-control uncertainty, despite mobile division strength.

Kintsugi

  • $18 M Funding: Landmark investment led by Vertex to enhance AI-powered sales-tax compliance tooling, including $15 M minority stake, IP sharing, and global expansion plans.

Cast AI

  • Series C Raise: $108 M from G2 Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2; focuses on automating cloud‐workload optimization, especially for AI compute, valuing the company near $900 M.

DeepSeek AI

  • Prover V2 Release: Updated math-proof AI model and distilled variant on Hugging Face, built on their 671 B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture, amid funding pursuit.

Supio

  • $60 M Round: Led by Sapphire Ventures to scale its AI-driven legal-tech platform for data collection and analysis in personal-injury law, targeting rapid hiring and revenue growth.


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