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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Last year, Coinbase launched an asset recovery tool for people who really don’t understand how blockchain works, and think they can send CDAI coins to an Etherium wallet. I know that sounds like a pretty specific example, and I am able to make it because I am the numpty that made that mistake, several years […]
Coinbase’s asset recovery tool just saved my bacon by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Aiming to monetize what’s become a viral phenomenon, OpenAI today launched a new pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, its text-generating AI that can write convincingly human-like essays, poems, emails, lyrics and more. Called ChatGPT Plus and starting at $20 per month, ChatGPT Pro delivers a number of benefits over the base-level ChatGPT, OpenAI says, including […]
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Another decentralized social networking application to challenge Twitter has hit the App Store. Last year, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey donated around $245,000 in bitcoin (then roughly 14 BTC) to fund the development of an open and decentralized social networking protocol known as Nostr, which is based on cryptographic key pairs. Now, the first mobile app […]
Damus, another decentralized social networking app, arrives to take on Twitter by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Common wisdom in digital photography says that megapixels aren’t everything. They matter to an extent, but smartphone makers have a long history of leaning too heavily on those numbers as a kind of shorthand for camera quality. In other words, they play an important role but need to work in concert with a number of […]
Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives with a 200-megapixel camera by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
The new MacBook Pros are a lot of things, but cheap isn’t one. Performance, it seems, comes at a price. It’s certainly a philosophy Samsung has long subscribed to with its highest-end products. Take the group of laptops it announced alongside the Galaxy S23 at today’s Unpacked event. There are, fittingly, three primary SKUs for […]
Samsung has the MacBook Pro in its sights with the $2,400 Galaxy Book 3 Ultra by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Rivian, the buzzy EV automaker that had one of the biggest IPOs in 2021, is cutting 6% of its workforce for the second time in less than a year, according to an internal memo sent to employees today by founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. Reuters was the first to report about the cuts. TechCrunch has […]
Rivian to cut another 6% of its workforce by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Are the problems Vine is facing even technical in nature, or does it have to do with the core business model?
A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
In the current environment, Start-ups are having to do a couple of seemingly contradictory things at the same time. Firstly, they have to keep employees (the ones they want to keep, at least) happy. The other is attract new employees in a market where there remains fierce competition for talent. In their armoury to address […]
Portugal’s Coverflex raises a €15M Series A to make employee benefits more flexible and engaging by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch