March 2023

Elon Musk has apologized after publicly mocking a Twitter employee with a disability who was uncertain if he had been laid off by the social media company. Musk questioned the work performance of the former employee, Haraldur Thorleifsson, and said that he had “done almost no work for the past four months.” Thorleifsson, who goes […]

Elon Musk apologizes after publicly mocking Twitter employee with disability by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok is doubling down on its European charm offensive today as it looks to counter a rising tide of political discontent with the popular short-form video-hosting platform. A new program called Project Clover will serve to create “a secure enclave for European TikTok user data,” wrote Theo Bertram, TikTok’s European VP of government relations and […]

With Project Clover, TikTok touts new EU data privacy and security efforts by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Forethought has been building chatbots since 2017 with increasing levels of sophistication, intelligence and automation. Today, the startup announced the next phase in their development. It’s bringing generative AI to the platform with a beta release of a new tool called SupportGPT. The product is designed to deliver auto-generated customer service responses without the need […]

Forethought aims to build more accurate chatbots with constrained generative AI models by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch