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Sam Altman’s big European tour

May 25, 2023

Fresh from telling US lawmakers he’s a fan of regulation and laws are needed to mitigate the risks around artificial intelligence — and, indeed, calling for an international regulatory body for AI — OpenAI CEO’s Sam Altman is on a tour of Europe this week to meet European regulators and warn against, er, too much […]

Sam Altman’s big European tour by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

DeepMind’s CEO will discuss research, Google and more on Disrupt’s AI Stage

May 25, 2023

Artificial intelligence captures headlines on an almost a daily basis — and for good reason. The technology will have a profound effect on just about every aspect of life for billions of people around the world. Over the past year, we’ve watched as two giants — Google-owned DeepMind and Microsoft-backed OpenAI — fight for dominance […]

DeepMind’s CEO will discuss research, Google and more on Disrupt’s AI Stage by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: IBM’s quantum ambitions, and tasting lab-grown burgers

May 25, 2023
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. IBM wants to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computer What’s happening: Last year, IBM took the record for the largest quantum computing system with a processor containing 433 quantum bits, or qubits, the fundamental…

Nymbus lands $70M to help banks digitally transform

May 25, 2023

Nymbus, a startup that partners with banks to migrate their legacy stack and launch neobanks to attract new customers, today announced that it raised $70 million in a Series D round led by Insight Partners. The Banc Funds Company and Mendon Venture Partners participated also, as did Nymbus clients ConnectOne Bank and PeoplesBank. According to […]

Nymbus lands $70M to help banks digitally transform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Here’s what a lab-grown burger tastes like

May 25, 2023
Sitting in a booth in a hotel lobby in Brooklyn, I stared down the lineup of sliders, each on a separate bamboo plate. On the far left was a plant-based burger from Impossible Foods. On the right, an old-fashioned beef burger. And in the middle, the star of the show: a burger made with lab-grown…

IBM wants to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computer

May 25, 2023
Late last year, IBM took the record for the largest quantum computing system with a processor that contained 433 quantum bits, or qubits, the fundamental building blocks of quantum information processing. Now, the company has set its sights on a much bigger target: a 100,000-qubit machine that it aims to build within 10 years. IBM…