Grab These 3 Tech Stocks for a Profitable July
After a challenging 2022, the technology sector has experienced a significant rebound in the first two quarters of 2023. Given the solid prospects of the industry, fundamentally strong tech stocks…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most […]
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Strike Gold With These 2 Miner Stocks, Watch This 1
The mining industry is poised for solid growth and expansion, thanks to strong demand for metals and minerals, favorable government policies, and integration of digital technology. Hence, it could be…
Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform how science gets done
It’s yet another summer of extreme weather, with unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, and floods battering countries around the world. In response to the challenge of accurately predicting such extremes, semiconductor giant Nvidia is building an AI-powered “digital twin” for the entire planet. This digital twin, called Earth-2, will use predictions from FourCastNet, an AI model…
Security researchers latest to blast UK’s Online Safety Bill as encryption risk
Nearly 70 IT security and privacy academics have added to the clamour of alarm over the damage the UK’s Online Safety Bill could wreak to, er, online safety unless it’s amended to ensure it does not undermine strong encryption. Writing in an open letter, 68 UK-affiliated security and privacy researchers have warned the draft legislation […]
Security researchers latest to blast UK’s Online Safety Bill as encryption risk by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Kentucky is the latest state to mandate Tesla’s charging plug
Kentucky now requires that electric vehicle charging companies include Tesla’s charging plug if they want to secure federal funds from a state program to electrify highways, Reuters reports. The plan went into effect Friday, making Kentucky the first state to officially mandate Tesla’s charging technology. Texas and Washington have also shared plans that would require […]
Kentucky is the latest state to mandate Tesla’s charging plug by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Deep tech in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to skyrocket
While the prospect of new factories and more jobs is good news for Mexico, the country and its Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) peers can harbor higher hopes when it comes to deep tech, a new report posits.
Deep tech in Latin America and the Caribbean is set to skyrocket by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Konux gears up to scale its AI + IoT play for optimizing the railways
Unless you’ve been on an extended digital detox this year, you can’t have missed how a certain flavor of AI hype has been accelerating down the tracks like a runaway train. But far from the viral buzz swirling around developments in generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E, Konux, a Munch-based deep tech AI scale-up, […]
Konux gears up to scale its AI + IoT play for optimizing the railways by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: metaverse lawyers, and Meta’s twitter clone
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. Job title of the future: metaverse lawyer In a virtual office, lawyer Madaline Zannes conducts private consultations with clients, meets people wandering in with legal questions, hosts conferences, and gives guest lectures. Zannes…
Reddit braces for life after API changes
Reddit has had a tumultuous month after announcing changes to its data API. In the last month, Reddit’s CEO gave interviews defending the company’s decision, the social network had fights with developers and moderators, and the platform saw a large number of subreddits going dark and later protesting in different ways. Given that the API […]
Reddit braces for life after API changes by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
UK’s early-stage media tech VC GMG Ventures rebrands to Mercuri, closes £50M fund
UK-based early-stage media technology venture capital firm GMG Ventures has rebranded to Mercuri. It has also raised £50 million ($81.35 million) for its second fund led by British Business Bank, through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme, to back startups using artificial intelligence to reinvent traditional media models. Other investors in the latest fund include The […]
UK’s early-stage media tech VC GMG Ventures rebrands to Mercuri, closes £50M fund by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch