December 20, 2024

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…

May 2023

RaidForums user data leaked online a year after DOJ takedown

May 30, 2023

A database containing the details of almost half-a-million RaidForums users has leaked online, a year after the U.S. Department of Justice seized the notorious cybercrime forum. The leaked database was posted on Exposed, described by security researchers as an up-and-coming forum “wanting to fill the void” left by the recent BreachForums shutdown. An Exposed admin, […]

RaidForums user data leaked online a year after DOJ takedown by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow

May 30, 2023

Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow’s your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Your last chance for a shot to stand on the Disrupt Stage and pitch to a huge audience packed with global tier-1 investors, hundreds of media outlets and plenty of other influential movers and shakers. Cut […]

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow by Neesha A. Tambe originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk

May 30, 2023

Make way for yet another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs and public figures — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to veteran AI computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, MIT’s Max Tegmark and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn to Grimes the musician and populist podcaster Sam Harris, to […]

OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: how to talk about AI, and Montana’s TikTok ban

May 30, 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. How to talk about AI (even if you don’t know much about it) Everyone is talking about AI, it seems. But if you feel overwhelmed or uncertain about what the hell people are…

Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats

May 30, 2023

Serve Robotics, the Uber spinout that builds autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, is expanding its partnership with Uber Eats. The Nvidia-backed startup will now deploy up to 2,000 of its cute little bots via Uber’s platform in multiple markets across the U.S. The partnership is slated to last through the beginning of 2026. This expansion not […]

Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch