February 22, 2025

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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DuckDuckGo’s beta Mac app is open to public with new features

October 18, 2022

DuckDuckGo’s web browser for Mac is now available as an open beta test, the Internet privacy company announced today. Six months after the web browsing app rolled out as a closed beta, DuckDuckGo added new features to version 0.30, including a “Duck Player” to defend users from targeted ads and cookies when they watch YouTube […]

DuckDuckGo’s beta Mac app is open to public with new features by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Will Ventures closes second fund with $150M to invest in sports technologies

October 18, 2022

Venture capital funds focusing on niche sectors are “in,” and Will Ventures is here for it. This low-flying, Boston-based venture outfit just tripled the size of its second fund to $150 million thanks to its approach of investing in sports technologies with the help of its community of athlete backers who help promote and grow […]

Will Ventures closes second fund with $150M to invest in sports technologies by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Adobe makes selecting and deleting objects and people in Photoshop and Lightroom a lot easier

October 18, 2022

Photoshop and Lightroom are incredibly powerful tools for manipulating images, but since the beginning of time, the most frustrating part of working with these tools has been selecting specific objects to cut them out of an image, move them elsewhere, etc. Over the years, the object selection tools got a lot better, but for complex […]

Adobe makes selecting and deleting objects and people in Photoshop and Lightroom a lot easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

RED and Fuji are building Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud right into their cameras

October 18, 2022

It’s been eighteen months since Adobe acquired Frame.io, the video collaboration service that helps anyone from freelancers to large production houses streamline their review and editing workflows. One of the core features of Frame.io is its Camera to Cloud (C2C) technology, which greatly speeds up the process of uploading and sharing video in the middle […]

RED and Fuji are building Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud right into their cameras by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B valuation

October 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 billion valuation. The tranche is the company’s first, remarkably, and comes as Jasper acquires AI startup Outwrite, a grammar and style checker with over a million […]

AI content platform Jasper raises $125M at a $1.7B valuation by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: bots for the brokenhearted, and AI for life and death decisions

October 18, 2022
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. Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? My colleague Charlotte embarked on an experiment during the pandemic. She created digital versions of her parents. They’re voice…