February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

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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March 2023

Adobe Express launches an enterprise tier with generative AI tools

March 21, 2023

Adobe launched the enterprise tier of its creative application Adobe Express today at the company’s Adobe Summit event. The enterprise subscription will also let organizations access Adobe Firefly — the company’s newly launched generative AI tools. The creative tools company said that this new offering would help businesses build anything ranging from brand content to […]

Adobe Express launches an enterprise tier with generative AI tools by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Adobe brings product analytics to its Experience Cloud

March 21, 2023

Adobe today announced the launch of a new analytics solution for product teams at its Adobe Summit conference in Las Vegas. Dubbed Adobe Product Analytics (because Adobe doesn’t mess around with its products’ names), this new service aims to give product teams access to key metrics into product lifecycles that have typically been siloed within […]

Adobe brings product analytics to its Experience Cloud by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

With Firefly, Adobe gets into the generative AI game

March 21, 2023

Adobe is jumping into the generative AI game with the launch of a new family of AI models called Firefly. Focused on bringing AI into Adobe’s suite of apps and services, specifically AI for generating media content, Firefly will be made up of multiple AI models “working across a variety of different use cases,” Adobe […]

With Firefly, Adobe gets into the generative AI game by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft brings OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator to the new Bing

March 21, 2023

Microsoft today announced that its new AI-enabled Bing will now allow users to generate images with Bing Chat. This new feature is powered by DALL-E, OpenAI’s generative image generator. The company didn’t say which version of DALL-E it is using here, except for saying that it is using the “very latest DALL-E models.” Dubbed the […]

Microsoft brings OpenAI’s DALL-E image creator to the new Bing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M

March 21, 2023

Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and Ubimo, and Roman was a principal on Amazon’s ElastiCache service. “Developers are fed up with hand holding their infrastructure,” Poncz told TechCrunch in an email […]

Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: how we can limit global warming, and GPT-4’s early adopters

March 21, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The UN just handed out an urgent climate to-do list. Here’s what it says. Time is running short to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7 °F) above preindustrial levels, but there are feasible…

TikTok ‘French Scar’ challenge triggers safety probe in Italy

March 21, 2023

TikTok has another problem to add to its growing pile: Italy’s consumer watchdog has opened an investigation over user safety concerns — stepping in after a so-called “French scar” challenge went viral on the video sharing platform in which users have been seen apparently pinching their faces in order to create and show off red […]

TikTok ‘French Scar’ challenge triggers safety probe in Italy by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Two is bringing a consumer-like experience to B2B payments

March 21, 2023

When individuals make purchases online, they place items in the digital shopping cart and use a credit or debit card to complete the transaction instantly. Businesses operate differently, typically looking to pay later at some agreed upon time frame between one week and 90 days. Most of these types of net transactions continue to be […]

Two is bringing a consumer-like experience to B2B payments by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Ford unveils the all-new €45,000 Explorer EV for the European market

March 21, 2023

Ford today took the wraps off the Explorer EV. The €45,000 model, which is headed to the European market, shares little with the internal combustion vehicle that carries the same name. The Explorer EV is smaller, features an entirely new design in and out, and has a starting price nearly €10,000 higher. The car company […]

Ford unveils the all-new €45,000 Explorer EV for the European market by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

Notorious hacking forum shuts down after administrator gets arrested

March 21, 2023

Last week, the FBI arrested a man alleged to be “Pompompurin,” the administrator of the infamous and popular Breach Forums. Days after the arrest, the cybercrime website’s new administrator announced that they are shutting down the forum for good. “Please consider this the final update for Breached,” the new admin, known as “Baphomet,” wrote in […]

Notorious hacking forum shuts down after administrator gets arrested by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch