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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After years of promises and millions in investments, Porsche today pumped the first gallons of its fully synthetic fuel into a car. That car? A 911, of course. Porsche has been talking about eFuels since 2020, when it made a 20 million euro investment into a project with Siemens Energy to create a pilot plant […]
Porsche pumps first synthetic fuel as Chilean plant finally starts producing by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch
Most companies agree that user experience is important. In a 2019 report from UserZoom, 70% of enterprise CEOs said that they see user and customer experience as a competitive differentiator. But figuring out what exactly users want — and what frustrates them — can prove to be a challenge. Customer satisfaction and market research surveys […]
User Interviews, which helps companies recruit survey participants, raises $27.5M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
In 2022, uncertainty continued: Major acquisitions took place, layoffs swept the tech industry, Elon Musk bought Twitter. All those topics got us talking.
We had thoughts in 2022. Here are the top takes from the TechCrunch+ team by Miranda Halpern originally published on TechCrunch
At best, your investor doesn’t care. At worst, it shows that you are a founder who doesn’t know what’s important, which is a huge red flag.
Banish vanity metrics from your startup’s pitch deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
The European Commission (EC) has announced that it has reached an agreement with Amazon over a duo of antitrust probes, one that will enshrine commitments made by Amazon in European Union (EU) antitrust legislation. The initial probe kicked off back in 2018, when regulators launched enquiries into how Amazon was leveraging non-public data from third-party […]
Amazon and EU settle two antitrust cases, including one focused on merchant data abuse by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
BigScience, a community project backed by startup Hugging Face with the goal of making text-generating AI widely available, is developing a system called Petals that can run AI like ChatGPT by joining resources from people across the internet. With Petals, the code for which was released publicly last month, volunteers can donate their hardware power […]
Petals is creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch