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Google is opening an AI hub in oil-rich Saudi Arabia

Tim De Chant — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:55:03 +0000

The new AI hub will support research into Arab language AI models and “Saudi-specific AI applications.”

Symbiotic Security helps developers find bugs as they code

Frederic Lardinois — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:05:56 +0000

Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideally, this means developers will fix security bugs […]

Datadog challenger Dash0 aims to dash observability bill shock

Anna Heim — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:46 +0000

The end of zero-interest rates has driven companies to look for savings wherever they can, but one area continues to be a major budget drain. Observability — collecting and understanding data and systems — typically remains an organization’s second-highest cloud expenditure, right after cloud provisioning itself. People have even gone so far as to talk […]

Regulators deliver successive blows to Amazon and Meta’s nuclear power ambitions

Tim De Chant — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:00:21 +0000

A series of recent rulings from regulators dashed the Big Tech companies' hopes of finding a quick fix for their electricity needs.

Quantum Machines and Nvidia use machine learning to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer

Frederic Lardinois — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000

About a year and a half ago, quantum control startup Quantum Machines and Nvidia announced a deep partnership that would bring together Nvidia’s DGX Quantum computing platform and Quantum Machine’s advanced quantum control hardware. We didn’t hear much about the results of this partnership for a while, but it’s now starting to bear fruit and […]

Google’s Gemini API and AI Studio get grounding with Google Search

Frederic Lardinois — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:00:00 +0000

Starting today, developers using Google’s Gemini API and its Google AI Studio to build AI-based services and bots will be able to ground their prompts’ results with data from Google Search. This should enable more accurate responses based on fresher data. As has been the case before, developers will be able to try out grounding […]

Claude gets desktop apps and dictation support

Kyle Wiggers — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps. Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which — as Anthropic writes in a blog post — “brings Claude’s capabilities directly to your preferred work environment.” These capabilities, to be clear, don’t include Anthropic’s recently announced Computer Use feature, which allows […]

Noma is building tools to spot security issues with AI apps

Kyle Wiggers — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:30:47 +0000

Companies are concerned that their eagerness to adopt AI has made them more vulnerable to cyberthreats. Per a recent poll of over 350 IT leaders, more than half of the executives surveyed said the complexity of AI applications weakened their organization’s cybersecurity posture. More than two-fifths of executives believe their security teams lack the skills […]

500 Amazon employees reportedly ask AWS CEO to reverse return-to-office policy

Maxwell Zeff — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:16:36 +0000

More than 500 Amazon employees sent a letter on Wednesday to AWS CEO Matt Garman, urging the executive to reverse the company’s full return-to-office policy, Reuters reports. In September, Amazon asked employees to come back to the office five days a week starting in 2025. The AWS CEO previously told employees that nine out of […]

When startups should look to sell and when to keep fighting

Yashad Kulkarni — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:45:00 +0000

Startup founders are often presented with the chance to sell their companies before they reach full maturity.In today’s world with IPOs often delayed past historical norms, it may be tempting for founders to look for a parent company for their startups. But when does it make sense to sell, when should a founder keep blazing […]

2024 Startup Battlefield Top 5 Finalists: Stitch3D

Yashad Kulkarni — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:30:00 +0000

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How to recognize a startup unicorn with FPV Ventures Co-Founder Wesley Chan

Yashad Kulkarni — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:40:00 +0000

Wesley Chan is known in the industry as a unicorn-spotter, with early investments in winners like AngelList, Canva, Flexport, Plaid, Ring, and Robinhood. Formerly of Google Ventures and Felicis Ventures, he’s now a co-founder and managing partner at FPV Ventures, where he oversees a $450 million fund.In this panel, Chan shares what he looks for […]

Matt Mullenweg: The Future of WordPress and the Web

Yashad Kulkarni — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:30:00 +0000

Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of WordPress, the ubiquitous open source platform powering much of the web. He’s also CEO of Automattic, which was valued at $7.5 billion in its most recent funding round. Mullenweg will join us to discuss his founder journey and where WordPress and the web go next. Subscribe for more on YouTube: […]

Bifrost helps industrials speed up model training with its 3D data-generation platform

Kate Park — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000

For many companies working on AI models with applications in the physical world, data presents the biggest opportunity. It’s also the biggest hurdle they face, as nicely labeled and clean real-world data is as readily available as hen’s teeth, and the costs and effort required to gather and clean up data can be immense. Bifrost, […]

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff

Kyle Wiggers — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:21:16 +0000

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.” In a letter to staff, Houston said that the reduction in headcount would impact 528 people. The goal, he added, was to make cuts in areas where Dropbox has “over-invested” while designing a “flatter, […]

Regal claims its customer service chatbots are better than most

Kyle Wiggers — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:59:00 +0000

People are generally skeptical of customer service chatbots, and many outright despise them. In a recent Gartner survey, 64% of consumers said that they’d prefer companies didn’t use AI of any kind — including chatbots — in their customer service. Fifty-three percent went so far as to say they’d weigh switching to a rival if […]

Cloud Doesn’t Have to Mean Compromise

Yashad Kulkarni — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:50:00 +0000

Join us as we discuss the multi-cloud landscape and learn how Kentik leverages AI and network visibility to help you run cloud – and your entire hybrid estate – in the most cost-efficient way possible. Hear about Kentik’s partnership with Golub Growth, which is driving innovation and enhancing their platform, and learn more about the […]

ForceField helps detect deepfakes and digital deception by verifying source data

Paul Sawers — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:33:03 +0000

A new startup setting out to combat the scourge of deepfakes and spoofed evidence in the age of AI is showing off its wares on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 this week. ForceField is building a set of “patent-pending” APIs dubbed MARQ, the first of which is designed to authenticate content. For […]

Scaling trust to unicorn status with Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo

Yashad Kulkarni — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000

SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR — few people want to deal with them, but to even be considered for a deal, many B2B startups now need to comply with one or more compliance frameworks.Vanta, which became a unicorn in 2022, has become somewhat of a standard of its own for helping businesses automate large […]

Industry leaders break down what’s next in open source as a business model

Yashad Kulkarni — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:20:00 +0000

Open source has become the default business model for many tech startups. But the success of the movement hasn’t been without challenges as businesses now try to balance the ideals of open source with the realities of running a business in an ever-changing competitive environment.Watch as Accel Partner Casey Aylward, Docker CEO Scott Johnston, and […]