OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal
OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft get more cash in a revenue-share agreement.
Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.
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The AI Revolution Is Mostly Marketing — and Here’s the Proof It’s Overhyped
Buckle up for a wake-up call on why we’re all being played in this high-stakes AI illusion.
DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion.
I Was Rejected By Over 100 Investors Before I Finally Got a ‘Yes’ — These Are the 5 Fundraising Truths Every Entrepreneur Needs to Hear
The rejections are not the obstacle — they are the curriculum. And if you pay attention, they can teach you more about your business than any accelerator program or startup playbook ever will.
If You’re Not Asking Your Security Leader These 5 Questions Right Now, You’re Inviting Turnover and Data Breaches
Ask these five questions now and you’ll know exactly where your security threat is before it becomes a headline.
The AI Playbook That Built an $80M 1-Person Business (You’re 1 Prompt Away and Don’t Know It)
If I lost everything tomorrow and had to rebuild to seven figures in 12 months using only AI, I wouldn’t guess — I’d reverse-engineer the people who already did it.
Hacker who allegedly carried out cyberattacks for China is extradited to U.S.
Xu Zewei is accused of participating in a Chinese government hacking group that broke into thousands of U.S. organizations and stole COVID-19-related research.
The AI Revolution Is Mostly Marketing — and Here’s the Proof It’s Overhyped
Buckle up for a wake-up call on why we’re all being played in this high-stakes AI illusion.
Little Caesars Just Made ‘History’ With Drone Delivery — Now You Can Get 2 Pizzas and Drinks in 4.5 Minutes
The pizza chain partnered with Flytrex to fly full family meals through the air, with big plans to eventually reach 100 million people.
The missing step between hype and profit
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In February, I picked up a flyer at an anti-AI march in London. I can’t say for sure whether or not its writers meant to riff on South Park’s underpants gnomes. But…