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South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

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Google takes aim at Canva and Adobe as its AI image editor Pics gets an official rollout date

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South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

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Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation