How to Balance Ethical Growth and Competitive Advantages
Rules and expectations may limit our freedom, but they protect the equality of everyone’s freedom and, within those limits, still present us with limitless opportunities to improve and grow.
The world’s first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises a cleaner future
As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of it were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a layer more than 13 feet thick. Making this metal produces a huge amount of carbon dioxide. Overall, steelmaking accounts for around 8% of the world’s carbon emissions—one of the largest industrial emitters and far more…
April 2023
Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
Amazon is building a more “generalized and capable” large language model (LLM) to power Alexa, said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy during the company’s first-quarter earnings call yesterday. An LLM, like ChatGPT, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize and generate text and other content based on knowledge from enormous amounts of text data. […]
Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Beyoncé Files Petition With the IRS Disputing $2.7 Million in Taxes and Penalties
The singer is worth an estimated $500 million.
Why Mastering this Strategy Will Build a Cohesive Brand Message
Entrepreneurs can use this powerful strategy to build a strong brand identity, connect with their target audience and ultimately drive sales and revenue.
Kenyan court paves way for lawsuit alleging Facebook played role in fuelling Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict
Petitioners seek to compel Meta to stop viral hate on Facebook, ramp up content review, and to create a $1.6 billion compensation fund.
Kenyan court paves way for lawsuit alleging Facebook played role in fuelling Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
ChatGPT resumes service in Italy after adding privacy disclosures and controls
A few days after OpenAI announced a set of privacy controls for its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, the service has been made available again to users in Italy — resolving (for now) an early regulatory suspension in one of the European Union’s 27 Member States, even as a local probe of its compliance with the […]
ChatGPT resumes service in Italy after adding privacy disclosures and controls by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
#NotMyAI and other TC news
Snapchat Rolled out their generative AI chatbot, My AI to their 750 million monthly users so it feels like the right time to pause and ask whether we’re ready for the real thing – and ready or not, whether anybody wants one. This week on the TechCrunch Podcast, we’re talking to TechCrunch reporter Amanda Silberling about […]
#NotMyAI and other TC news by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
A True Leader Doesn’t Just Talk the Talk — They Walk the Walk. Here’s How to Lead from the Front.
If you’re trying to create a more engaged and motivated team, it all starts with you as the leader.
Khloé Kardasian and Emma Grede Founded Inclusive Denim Brand Good American With an Ultimatum: ‘You Either Take Our Full Size Range Or You Don’t. We’re Not Gonna Sell Our Souls.’
From the beginning, Good American wanted to reach a customer that other designers overlooked. That hasn’t come without its challenges. But last year alone, the brand did $200 million in sales.
Upward and onward
The future is very much yet to be written about vertical farming. In many ways, the technology presents hope in the midst of rising food safety concerns, aging populations and potential environmental collapse. It’s also an intensely hard row to hoe, as it were. Early companies in the space are going to be the ones […]
Upward and onward by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch