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 […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
In this column, Sophie provides some context on export control, the J-1 educational and cultural exchange visa, and employment authorization.
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The same hacker who leaked a trove of user data stolen from the genetic testing company 23andMe two weeks ago has now leaked millions of new user records. On Tuesday, a hacker who goes by Golem published a new dataset of 23andMe user information containing records of four million users on the known cybercrime forum […]
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A CFO, recent notes on limited burn, and enough historical information to indicate that the company is IPO-sized already? Things are looking good for a Plaid IPO.
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open-source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure Incubation team, the same group that previously launched open-source projects like Dapr for building microservices, the KEDA event-driven autoscaling solution, and Copacetic, a security tool for […]
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
As a part of TC’s ongoing AI survey series, we spoke to a group of five investors about the pros and cons of open source AI business models.
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Fintech startup Plaid has hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer. When asked if the move meant that the company was planning to go public, a spokesperson told TechCrunch: “We do not have any plans to IPO at this time…It will be a milestone we consider at some […]
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.