February 2023

Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups

February 27, 2023

Anthropic, a buzzy AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has begun offering partners access to its AI text-generating models. The first commercial venture to announce that it’s integrating Anthropic models is Robin AI, a legal tech startup that’s raised over $13 million from investors including Plural, Episode 1 and the Google Black Founders Fund. Quora’s […]

Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

EU uses key telco stage to press the case for rethinking network funding

February 27, 2023

The European Commission has given its clearest signal yet that it intends to make a significant intervention in how Internet connectivity is funded in the bloc in the coming years. In a keynote speech on stage this morning at mobile industry association the GSMA’s annual trade show, Mobile World Congress (MWC), Thierry Breton, the European […]

EU uses key telco stage to press the case for rethinking network funding by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Four ways the Supreme Court could reshape the web

February 27, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. All eyes were on the US Supreme Court this week as it weighed up arguments for two cases relating to recommendation algorithms and content moderation, both…

CollX raises $5.5M to scan and evaluate value of trading cards

February 27, 2023

Card collectors often dispute how much their cards are worth. New Jersey-based CollX provides a free iOS and Android app to card enthusiasts that allows them to scan their trading cards and get value in return. Launched in January last year, the app has now more than 600,000 users who have scanned more than 100 […]

CollX raises $5.5M to scan and evaluate value of trading cards by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome to Chula Vista, where police drones respond to 911 calls

February 27, 2023
In the skies above Chula Vista, California, where the police department runs a drone program 10 hours a day, seven days a week from four launch sites, it’s not uncommon to see an unmanned aerial vehicle darting across the sky. For officers on the force, tapping into this aerial reconnaissance resource has gone from a…

Planet Computers hits the desktop with a line of touchscreen Linux computers

February 27, 2023

Planet Computers turned heads when it arrived on the scene almost exactly five years ago. The London-based hardware startup was banking on a bit of nostalgia for the days of tactile mobile keyboards, as it attempted to drag the PDA kicking and screaming into the 21st century with the Gemini. 2020’s Astro Slide 5G followed […]

Planet Computers hits the desktop with a line of touchscreen Linux computers by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch