To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more […]
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. […]
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. There’s not that much news from me this week, but I’ve been doing a ton of prep for TechCrunch Early Stage taking place in Boston on […]
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Uber’s platform. The news raises questions about […]
Ryan Daws is a senior editor at TechForge Media, with a seasoned background spanning over a decade in tech journalism. His expertise lies in identifying the latest technological trends, dissecting complex topics, and weaving compelling narratives around the most cutting-edge developments. His articles and interviews with leading industry figures have gained him recognition as a […]
Ryan Daws is a senior editor at TechForge Media, with a seasoned experience spanning over a decade in tech journalism. He specializes in identifying the latest technological trends, dissecting complex issues, and crafting compelling narratives around the most groundbreaking developments. His articles and interviews with leading industry figures have earned him recognition as a key […]
Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps they’ve realized that there are no other horses available to back. The September deal put $1.25 billion into […]
Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s decision to open source its Grok large language model previously in March, the entrepreneur declared on Tuesday that the company, which was formerly known as Twitter, will extend the availability of its Grok chatbot to a greater number of subscribed users. Musk announced on x that Grok would now be accessible […]
Last year, Salesforce, recognized primarily for its cloud sales assistance software (and Slack), initiated a project dubbed ProGen with the objective of designing proteins utilizing generative AI. As a research venture, ProGen could potentially help discover medicinal therapies at a lower cost than the conventional techniques, according to the researchers who mentioned this in a […]
Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, the profitable cloud division of Amazon, share quite a bit in common. Interestingly, their primary businesses surfaced from lucky circumstances. In AWS’s case, it discovered that it could sell the in-house services like storage, compute and memory it had developed for itself. For Nvidia, it occurred when they realized that […]