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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I took a deep dive with Covariant co-founder and CEO Peter Chen at ProMat the other week. The timing was either perfect or terrible depending on who you ask. I’m sure the startup’s comms people are thrilled that I’m writing a follow-up a week later on the occasion of a new funding round. Regardless, $75 […]
Covariant’s robotic picking AI nabs another $75M by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
A search startup raised $26 million recently to offer an AI-powered rival to Google. Perplexity AI, which bills itself as a “conversational search engine,” closed a Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Databricks Ventures and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Meta chief scientist Yann LeCun. […]
AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. “This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a […]
Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch