The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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Right on time for its annual post-Thanksgiving re:Invent festivities in Las Vegas, AWS last night announced its “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge” — and before you click away, let me just point out that this is definitely more important than the prosaic name implies. As nations across the globe introduce legislation that governs how and where […]
AWS announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Cyber Monday savings are here — for today only book a pass to TC Sessions: Space 2022 and save 50% on all available passes. This one-day exploration event is focused on early-stage space startups, trends, science and technology across the private, public and defense universe takes place on December 6 in Los Angeles. Don’t miss […]
Cyber Monday sale – save 50% on passes for TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch
Founded in 2017, Bionaut Labs arrived out of stealth in March 2021, with plans to commercialize longstanding research around drug delivery robots. The Los Angeles-based startup today followed up its initial $20 million funding announcement with a $43.2 million Series B, bringing its total raise up to – you guessed it — $63.2 million. This […]
Bionaut Labs gets $43.2M for its tiny drug delivery robots by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Taboola expects to get bigger, more profitable, and more self-sustaining than before thanks to Yahoo.
A scale story: TechCrunch’s parent company links up with Taboola by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
India’s VerSe Innovation — the $5 billion Indian startup behind news aggregator Dailyhunt, short-video platform Josh, and hyperlocal video app PublicVibe — has cut 150 employees, or 5% of its workforce of 3,000, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-based startup informed impacted employees on Friday and separately held a town hall meeting on Monday […]
Google, Microsoft-backed VerSe Innovation cuts 5% of workforce, reduces salaries by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch
This past year has been hectic for the crypto lending platform BlockFi and today is no different as the company shared an announcement that it filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. On November 10 the crypto platform shared in a tweet that it paused […]
BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans have been unable to tackle, yet ironically, building that AI faces a major scaling problem. It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing […]
V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
While there’s no one right way to go about fundraising, there are a few wrong ways — and failure is a wonderful teacher.
3 mistakes to avoid as an emerging manager by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch