Why now is the best time to invest in climate tech
Global expectations around climate change has shifted dramatically in the last decade, suggesting that similarly significant changes are on the horizon.
For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data
AI tools are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing it to work.
Can an ‘ethical’ spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE?
Analysis: In calling itself an ethical spyware vendor, Paragon has opened itself up to scrutiny of its government customers.
Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s actual energy cost
Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is “way more than we’d care to say.”
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The RIAA’s lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly being regurgitated by the music models.
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Startups aren’t (just) a young person’s game
There’s a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley: Startups are only founded by a bunch of 20-year-olds who recently dropped out of college.
Startups aren’t (just) a young person’s game
There’s a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley: Startups are only founded by a bunch of 20-year-olds who recently dropped out of college.
Corporate investment in AI is on the rise, driven by the tech’s promise
by Kyle Wiggers
Corporate investment in AI is on the rise, driven both by hype and the tech’s promise to bolster productivity — and revenues.
Corporate investment in AI is on the rise, driven by the tech’s promise by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly
by Kyle Wiggers
As the fervor around generative AI grows, critics have called on the creators of the tech to take steps to mitigate its potentially harmful effects. In particular, text-generating AI in particular has gotten a lot of attention — and with good reason. Students could use it to plagiarize, content farms could use it to spam […]
Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Is the RPA market in trouble?
by Kyle Wiggers
Automation Anywhere, one of the largest RPA vendors, raised debt instead of equity. Is that cause for alarm in the market?
Is the RPA market in trouble? by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
8 Best Data Science Tools and Software of 2023
by Brenna Miles
Apache Spark and Hadoop, Microsoft Power BI, Jupyter Notebook and Alteryx are among the top data science tools for finding business insights. Compare their features, pros and cons.
Getting to the bottom of UiPath’s plunging valuation
by Ron Miller
Just over a year ago, UiPath was among the most favored startups in the world. Last February the company raised a massive $750 million round at a staggering $35 billion valuation. The robotic process automation, or RPA company, was firing on all cylinders. By the time that UiPath went public in April of last year, […]