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 past few weeks in crypto land have been focused on the latest craze: Ordinals. What are Ordinals, you ask?
NFTs could give Bitcoin a face lift as it increases its blockchain demand by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
As the fervor around generative AI grows, critics have called on the creators of the tech to take steps to mitigate its potentially harmful effects. In particular, text-generating AI in particular has gotten a lot of attention — and with good reason. Students could use it to plagiarize, content farms could use it to spam […]
Most sites claiming to catch AI-written text fail spectacularly by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
It’s official, with today’s release of the iOS 16.4 developer beta, we’re getting our first look at the next set of emojis coming to our iPhones, thanks to Emojipedia. The new set of emojis was originally unveiled during the draft phase last year, and not much has changed since — except that the shaking head […]
iOS 16.4 to bring 31 new emoji, including shaking face, pink heart, two pushing hands and more by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
“Jidoka” is a new one to me. TRI (Toyota Research Institute) CEO Gill Pratt described the concept as “Automation with a Human Touch.” The anglicized version of the notion is “Autonomation” — both are modified forms of “ automation,” in their respective languages. The word was originally applied to Toyota’s Production System, highlighting the need […]
Autonomation by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Incymo, which leverages machine learning to maximize advertising revenues for game publishers, shared the deck it used to raise an $850,000 seed round.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Gaming monetization company Incymo AI’s $850K seed deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch