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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Prometeo raises $13M from PayPal, Samsung, and more to bring open banking to Latin America
Open banking — where traditional banks can share data, and build new services, by way of APIs that bring their ageing systems into the 21st century — has seen its biggest traction to date in mature economies, where the vast majority of consumers and businesses already have bank accounts; are au fait with digital transactions; […]
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Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details
Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed. A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where the Threads team had reached […]
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Will 2024 (finally) be the year of the autonomous vehicle?
Safety remains the paramount metric for autonomous vehicle deployment, yet there has to be industry consensus on how to adequately measure a robotic or human driver’s safety.
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From Drones to IT, These Franchises are Redefining Tech and Transforming the Future
Sam’s Club Will Stop Checking Receipts at the Door — and Instead Use AI to Snap Photos of Your Shopping Cart
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CES, Circle-ing back to IPOs and why we’re over the moon about Overmoon
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, our news roundtable, our gathering of the nerds! Up top we have Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo digging through the […]
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