The Art of the Power Nap — How to Sleep Your Way to Maximum Productivity
Whether you’re shooting for the NBA finals or growing your business, a quick snooze can be a secret weapon.
How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models
OpenAI is once again lifting the lid (just a crack) on its safety-testing processes. Last month the company shared the results of an investigation that looked at how often ChatGPT produced a harmful gender or racial stereotype based on a user’s name. Now it has put out two papers describing how it stress-tests its powerful…
August 2023
People Underestimated Her ‘Sweet’ Idea, and She Took Advantage of It — All the Way to $125 Million in Annual Sales and a $360 Million Exit
Tara Bosch faced certain challenges as the young woman founder of SmartSweets. Her next venture, Bold Beginnings, is all about making it easier for the women who come next.
Ivanti warns customers another zero-day is under active attack
U.S. software giant Ivanti has scrambled to patch another zero-day vulnerability under active attack. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38035 with a vulnerability severity rating of 9.8 out of 10, affects the software company’s Sentry product. Ivanti Sentry (formerly MobileIron Sentry) is a mobile gateway designed to manage, encrypt, and secure network traffic between employee devices […]
Netflix says its DVD-by-mail customers get to keep their final shipment of discs
Netflix has one final surprise for customers of its 25-year-old DVD-by-mail business (yes, it still exists!) ahead of its September 29th shutdown. They get to keep their last shipment of DVDs without any additional charges for unreturned discs. Earlier this month, the company had offered its remaining customers the chance to receive up to 10 […]
Not a traditional founder? Learn how to use it to your advantage at TC Disrupt 2023
The list of reasons why venture investors don’t fund diverse startups is long, legion and ludicrous, to put it politely. Nontraditional founders still face a ridiculous uphill slog. Here’s some good news: If you don’t fit the “pale, male from Yale” stereotype, you can use your experience to your benefit. We’re excited to share a […]
AI company Hypergiant Industries snapped up by PE firm Trive Capital
Private equity firm Trive Capital has acquired Hypergiant Industries, in a deal that will furnish the Texas-based AI company with capital to “build even faster,” Hypergiant CEO Mike Betzer told TechCrunch in a recent interview. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Hypergiant’s core product is called CommandCenter, a geospatial data visualization platform designed […]
Swedish EV battery maker raises $1.2B to expand to North America
Northvolt, a Swedish producer of lithium-ion batteries, has raised around $1.2 billion from BlackRock and various Canadian pension plans to build new factories in North America and Europe, according to report from Reuters. Tuesday’s announcement signals the first time Northvolt has shared concrete plans to build in North America. If Northvolt builds in the U.S., […]
Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T, that can translate and transcribe close to 100 languages across text and speech. Available in open source along with SeamlessAlign, a new translation data set, Meta claims that SeamlessM4T represents a “significant breakthrough” in […]
The Tactics Great Leaders Use to Focus Their Mindset on Growth
Discover ways to expand your vision and profits with these strategies from the new book “Grow Your Business.”
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