December 26, 2024

This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases

When Dave Hodson walked through wheat fields in Ethiopia in 2010, it seemed as if everything had been painted yellow. A rust fungus was in the process of infecting about one-third of the country’s wheat, and winds had carried its spores far and wide, coating everything in their path. “The fields were completely yellow. You’d…

May 2023

Mixpanel moves into marketing data with its latest product

May 2, 2023

Traditionally, Mixpanel has provided information about product usage to product teams. Increasingly, especially with the end of cookies and third party data, product data has taken on greater value for other parts of the company, and Mixpanel is making it easier for marketing people to get at it too with a new product called Mixpanel […]

Mixpanel moves into marketing data with its latest product by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Box is partnering with OpenAI to bring generative AI tools across the platform

May 2, 2023

We’ve seen a number of enterprise software companies making announcements related to generative AI in the last six weeks from established companies like Salesforce and Adobe to startups like Ada and Forethought. Box is the latest to be announcing its own flavor of the technology under the moniker Box AI, and it will be teaming […]

Box is partnering with OpenAI to bring generative AI tools across the platform by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Simpplr raises $70M for its AI-powered intranet platform

May 2, 2023

Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop an app to improve the employee onboarding experience. Instead of creating a one-off, ad hoc solution, Sharma spearheaded a platform, Simpplr, which later spun off into its own company. Today, Simpplr sells what’s essentially an […]

Simpplr raises $70M for its AI-powered intranet platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Nextdoor launches new ‘Assistant’ feature powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT

May 2, 2023

Neighborhood social network Nextdoor is introducing new features powered by generative AI, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Nextdoor is launching a new “Assistant” feature that helps users on the app write better posts. The new Assistant feature, which is being tested with select users, is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Assistant feature is designed […]

Nextdoor launches new ‘Assistant’ feature powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

How chemists could give new life to old wind turbine blades

May 2, 2023
Wind turbines are crucial for addressing climate change, but when they’ve reached the end of their lives, turbine blades could add up to a lot of waste. Now new research, published in Nature, could represent a first step toward building renewable-energy infrastructure that doesn’t end up in a landfill. Wind turbine blades need to be…

We need to bring consent to AI 

May 2, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This week’s big news is that Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and Engineering Fellow at Google, and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart…

Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build

May 2, 2023
I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just four days before the bombshell announcement that he is quitting Google. Hinton is a pioneer of deep learning who helped develop some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern artificial intelligence, but after a decade at Google,…

African payment service provider Nomba raises $30M, backed by Base10 Partners and Shopify

May 2, 2023

Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions for African businesses. The round, which values the company at $150 million+ according to YCombinator data on its most valuable companies, was led by San Francisco-based Base 10 Partners.  Partech and Khosla Ventures, […]

African payment service provider Nomba raises $30M, backed by Base10 Partners and Shopify by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch