November 21, 2024

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

Tiny faux organs could crack the mystery of menstruation

August 18, 2023
In the center of the laboratory dish, there was a subtle white film that could only be seen when the light hit the right way. Ayse Nihan Kilinc, a reproductive biologist, popped the dish under the microscope, and an image appeared on the attached screen. As she focused the microscope, the film resolved into clusters…

Threads app’s latest update gives more prominence to reposts

August 18, 2023
Threads haven’t launched a web version yet, but the app has shipped a new update to give more prominence to reposts on the social network. Meta has changed two things regarding reposts on the app. First, there is now a dedicated “Reposts” tab on the profile page, so people can quickly scan through all reposts […]

Twitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams

August 18, 2023
Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes, its monthly product update show, the company announced that it would soon let streamers block banned users from watching […]

Match Group’s background check partner Garbo ends its partnership

August 17, 2023
Tech non-profit Garbo announced today it’s ending its formal partnership with Match Group, the dating app giant behind Tinder, Plenty of Fish, Match and other apps. The two companies first teamed up in 2021, when Match made a 7-figure investment in the background check provider, following a series of reports about harm that came to […]

True Anomaly gets regulatory greenlight for first spacecraft reconnaissance mission

August 17, 2023
Defense-focused space technology startup True Anomaly has received key permits from regulators that will allow it to demonstrate imaging and rendezvous capabilities on-orbit for the first time. The two authorizations – from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) – give the company the greenlight to perform non-Earth imaging […]

Fifteen years in and still early to the industry with Marco Zappacosta from Thumbtack

August 17, 2023
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a startup that runs a marketplace for home services and beyond. Zappacosta talked about his unusual path to entrepreneurship which included almost getting a degree in neuroscience […]