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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Fisker, the electric carmaker founded by the Danish auto designer Henrik Fisker, is gearing up to enter the Chinese market where competition is increasingly cut-throat, following in the footsteps of another brave American player Lucid. Fisker plans to open a delivery center in China this year and commence deliveries of the Fisker Ocean SUV, its […]
Fisker to enter China’s hotly contested EV market with local production plans by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand – and reverses its controversial API price hikes. In a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a […]
Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Màrius Montmany and Oriol Hernandez i Fajula, former employees at large logistics companies, several years ago found themselves frustrated with the problem of “reverse logistics” — how to get product returns through the mail system in an efficient and cost-effective way. Dissatisfied with the existing solutions out there, the pair founded Rever — now backed […]
Y Combinator-backed Rever aims to modernize refunds and returns by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Seedstars Capital and Swiss philanthropic foundation Fondation Botnar have launched Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures, a $20 million investment mandate targeting early-stage startups in Africa that are focused on improving the wellbeing of people below 30 years in low-and-middle-income countries. The evergreen fund will back pre-seed to Series A startups including those that advance health services, […]
Seedstars, Fondation Botnar launch new fund to back African startups focused on youth wellbeing by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
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Mercedes jumps into the ChatGPT fray and Toyota plays catch-up by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
The old computing adage of “garbage in, garbage out” still stands. If you can’t trust the training data, you can’t trust the output.
We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch