February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

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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December 2022

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it

December 15, 2022

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but images of audio. Sounds strange, is strange. But if it works, it works. And it does work! Kind of. Diffusion is a machine learning technique […]

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem

December 15, 2022

Even after billions of venture capital raised and invested into the digital health space, it’s still difficult to access quality healthcare. And while that may raise questions on if a scrappy startup has a fighting chance at fixing things, to entrepreneur Akili Hinson, it just means that Juno needs to be even smarter about the […]

Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M

December 15, 2022

Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has secured a $70 million equity investment led by LeapFrog Investments. It’s an extension of the $260 million Series D round the solar company announced this April, which was led by BeyondNetZero, the climate investing venture of General Atlantic and M&G Investments’ […]

Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier

December 15, 2022

Heartex, the well-funded machine learning data labeling startup, is launching a major update to its platform today that will open up new use cases for its tools by making annotating audio files in the commercial and open source versions of its Label Studio a lot easier for its users. These updates include a new user […]

Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The battle over gig worker status is heating up

December 15, 2022

The fight over whether gig workers are independent contractors or employees has been heating up this week on both state and federal levels. The stakes? A once disruptive business model could soon be disrupted itself. On the state level, this week has seen developments in the Proposition 22 saga as companies relying on gig workers […]

The battle over gig worker status is heating up by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch