February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

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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June 2023

Oso sees huge opportunity in simplifying authorization for developers

June 20, 2023

We all know what authentication is. You enter a user name and password, or your face or your fingerprint, and you can access a device or an application, but what you can do with that application or device falls under the realm of authorization, authentication’s close cousin. For years, developers have been forced to build […]

Oso sees huge opportunity in simplifying authorization for developers by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Cloudflare launches Observability, a tool to beef up web monitoring

June 20, 2023

Organizations increasingly see observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic, more than three-quarters (78%) of IT decision-makers and practitioners said that they saw observability as an enabler for achieving business goals. Website observability and analytics in […]

Cloudflare launches Observability, a tool to beef up web monitoring by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M

June 20, 2023

In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi — all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry — came to the realization that, in order to get to a stage of real-time collaboration, the entire trucking industry needed to come online. Shippers, carriers and brokers — the intermediaries between carriers and shippers — had […]

Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Parrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A

June 20, 2023

Artificial intelligence touches many aspects of professional industries, including medicine, legal, business, information technology and more, as of late; AI-powered transcription service is one example that has become an integral part of those fields.   Parrot AI, a transcription platform offering speech-to-text depositions for the legal and insurance industry, said Tuesday it has raised $11 million […]

Parrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: explaining the recent AI panic, and digital inequality in the US

June 20, 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 existential risk became the biggest meme in AI Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and policymakers have recently made public…

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription

June 20, 2023

A couple of years after its original announcement, Spotify will finally launch its HiFi tier with lossless music streaming through a “Supremium” plan later this year, which might cost more than the current premium plan of $9.99 per month. A report by Bloomberg noted that the company is launching this new plan to bolster its […]

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch