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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The company’s first order of business is to turn the waste from port-a-potties into fertilizers for farmers.
We flush valuable nutrients down the toilet. Wasted wants to save them by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
Google will allow smartphone vendors in India to license individual apps for pre-installation on their Android-powered devices and give consumers the ability to change search engine and use third-party billing options for apps and games purchases on Play Store starting next month, the Android-maker said as it makes broad changes to its business practices in […]
Google to ease agreement with phonemakers, allow third-party billing in India in major business revamp by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
The biotech industry is experiencing a rush of AI-powered tools for many aspects of the complex drug discovery process. But one that has flown under the radar, increasingly thought to be key to certain diseases but woefully understudied, is RNA. With $35 million in new funding, Atomic AI aims to do for RNA what AlphaFold […]
With new funding, Atomic AI envisions RNA as the next frontier in drug discovery by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up to invest in more startups. Kearny Jackson, founded by former Spotify executive Sriram Krishnan, said it has closed $14 million second fund. It has also […]
Sequoia, Marc Andreessen back early-stage fund Kearny Jackson by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Companies are now facing an age-old corporate — but entirely new to ML — question: Would it be better to buy or build this technology?
When it comes to large language models, should you build or buy? by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users. Today the company took the wraps off that […]
After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
