Elon Musk Hints at Subscription Paywall for X, Says It Is ‘Only Way’ to Tackle ‘Army of Bots’
Musk says the paywall would be a “small amount of money.”
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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September 2023
Your Customers Want to Text You — Why Text Messaging is the New Customer Service Channel Customers Love The Most
There is vast promise and power in this simple, often overlooked way of communicating back and forth with your customers.
Burnt Sienna Bouquet Anyone? A Beloved Crayon-Maker Is Getting Into the Flower Business.
Crayola just launched an online flower shop.
The Largest Car Rental Company in the U.S. Asked Some Seemingly Innocuous Interview Questions. Now It’s Being Sued for Discriminating Against Millennials and Gen X.
An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit was filed in Fort Lauderdale federal court.
Refresh Your Work Routine This Fall
The fall season is a time of transition. The leaves turn colors in autumn, the weather gets cooler, and the days become shorter. In the workplace, it is a time…
Introducing the 2023 Startup Battlefield Top 20 onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt
I’m thrilled to announce the Startup Battlefield 20 companies, pitching TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. After last year’s big hit, TechCrunch editorial hand-selected 200 startups, out of thousands of applicants, to comprise the Startup Battlefield 200. This year, TechCrunch saw the highest number of applications across the largest spread of countries and industries. Of the 200, these […]
6 surveys that will get you prepped for Disrupt
Just in case you’re wondering what’s happening in the sectors our team’s going to talk about at Disrupt, we’ve put together a handy primer of surveys.
Google wants to map more of the world’s roads with expansion of ‘Road Mapper’ volunteer community
Google announced today that it is opening access to more contributors to participate in Road Mapper, a tool where you can add missing roads to Google Maps in areas of the world that need it most. The company also noted in today’s blog post that its contributors have mapped over 1.5 million kilometers of roads, […]
News aggregator app SmartNews’ latest feature aims to tackle doomscrolling
News aggregator SmartNews is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help to combat the anxiety associated with regularly consuming negative news — something often referred to as “doomscrolling.” Instead of encouraging impulsive scrolling through its headlines, the app’s new feature called SmartTake claims to offer a selection of uplifting stories, editor’s picks, […]
New SambaNova chip designed to handle 5 trillion parameter model
Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of last year, terms like generative AI and large language models have been on everyone’s lips. But when you dig beneath the hype, large language models generally require a lot of expensive GPU chips to run. SambaNova is introducing a chip today that it purports will reduce […]