Mastering Emotional Intelligence Is the Key to Effective Leadership and Team Building
Why EI is vital for leaders and team dynamics, and how to boost yours.
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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October 2023
These Are the 4 Things You Need to Know About Your Business to Truly Succeed
The new book, “The Third Paradigm,” identifies the pillars that form a solid foundation for business success.
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Anti-Instagram photo-sharing app Daylyy has no vanity metrics, filters or algorithm
While social media has its perks, it can also be a toxic wasteland crawling with hate comments, unrealistic body standards, scammers and spam bots. As this toxicity continues to infest the digital landscape, new social platforms emerge, determined to remedy our distorted online world. Daylyy is a photo-sharing social app where you can only snap […]
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Harvest Thermal taps $4M seed round to make heat pumps cheaper to run
The team came up with a system that integrated a heat pump and a hot water storage tank with a pod that turns the system into a thermal battery.
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Censys lands new cash to grow its threat-detecting cybersecurity service
Investments in cybersecurity companies are beginning to turn a corner, seemingly. After a brutal summer, VC funding to security startups saw a slight (12%) uptick from Q3, according to Crunchbase — reaching nearly $1.9 billion compared to $1.7 billion in the second quarter. That’s still down 30% annually. But it’s a tepid sign that venture’s […]
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Twelve Labs is building models that can understand videos at a deep level
Text-generating AI is one thing. But AI models that understand images as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. Take, for example, Twelve Labs. The San Francisco-based startup trains AI models to — as co-founder and CEO Jae Lee puts it — “solve complex video-language alignment problems.” “Twelve Labs was founded … to create […]
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The Download: poisoning generative AI, and heat-storing batteries
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. This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI What’s happening: A new tool lets artists make invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online…
Heat-storing batteries are scaling up to solve one of climate’s dirtiest problems
Today Antora Energy, a California-based thermal-battery startup, unveiled its plan to build its first large-scale manufacturing facility in San Jose. The announcement is a big step forward for thermal batteries (also known as heat batteries), an industry seeking to become a major player in the energy storage sector. Antora’s batteries store renewable energy as heat,…
There Was No Twitch or OnlyFans for Chefs. Then the Founders of Kittch Cooked Up a Great Idea.
Kittch CEO Brian Bedol discusses monetizing food content and innovative digital storytelling in the culinary world.