May 2023

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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 of modern AI, is leaving the company after 10 years, the New York Times reported today. Hinton, who will be speaking live to MIT Technology Review in his first…

First Republic Bank (FRB), on the brink of collapse in the weeks after the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, has finally fallen over, but with a relatively quick resolution into its next chapter: today the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that it was being closed by the the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, […]

Regulators close First Republic Bank, JPMorgan named as the buyer of $330B assets and deposits, FDIC on the hook for $13B by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

In this increasingly AI-driven era, creative and media teams will probably need to employ the technology to up their game on analyzing their creative assets and A/B testing — or someone else will simply beat them to the punch. Alison is a startup out of Israel that analyzes creative work, such as typeface characters, colors, […]

AI platform to analyze creative advertising raises $5.1M from investors, including a16z by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch