How to Use AI and Automation to Boost Your Business Goals
The business landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and AI coupled with business process automation is the catapult that’s launching businesses to new horizons.
The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning
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. Online harassment is entering its AI era Scott Shambaugh didn’t think twice when he denied an AI agent’s request to contribute to matplotlib, a software library he helps manage. Then things…
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Want to Be More Productive at Work? You Need Better Hobbies.
Here’s how engaging in complex hobbies can offer mental rest and spur productivity.
Akhetonics raises capital for its All-Optical processor prototype
Traditional processors from the likes of Intel, AMD, or Nvidia have well-known limitations around speed, energy efficiency, and electromagnetic interference. For instance, foundational chip makers like TSMC and Samsung are currently racing to move to the 3nm process for customers like Apple and Nvidia. In the meantime, photonics is becoming a bigger sector as chip […]
Zombie game maker Techland joins Tencent’s global empire in latest acquisition
Tencent, the world’s largest gaming company, is set to gobble up Techland, the Polish game developer known for open-world zombie games like Dying Light, adding yet another member to its sprawling investment portfolio. In a letter to players, Techland’s founder and CEO Paweł Marchewka announced that Tencent is in the process of becoming the gaming […]
How Startups Can Weather the VC Funding Winter
Here’s what startups must focus on to triumph in the VC winter.
Want to Be More Productive at Work? You Need Better Hobbies.
Here’s how engaging in complex hobbies can offer mental rest and spur productivity.
‘You’d Do That For Your Mom’: Margot Robbie Reveals That She Paid Off Her Mom’s Mortgage With Paychecks
The “Barbie” star earned an estimated $12.5 million for the film.
Blue Origin, Astrobotic, Varda Space and others win NASA funding to develop advanced space tech
NASA awarded new funding to eleven companies today for advanced space tech projects ranging from advanced power generation on the lunar surface to additive manufacturing for space habitats. The awards, which total $150 million across all eleven companies, were announced as part of the space agency’s Tipping Point program. According to NASA, a technology is […]
How to prevent an ‘operational catastrophe’
We concentrated on scaling and didn’t have time to think if the resources of our team were enough to keep going with such speed.
OpenAI scuttles AI-written text detector over ‘low rate of accuracy’
OpenAI has shut down its AI classifier, a tool that claimed to determine the likelihood a text passage was written by another AI. While many used and perhaps unwisely relied on it to catch low-effort cheats, OpenAI has retired it over its widely criticized “low rate of accuracy.” The theory that AI-generated text has some […]