Technology

Isometric taps $25M to build a registry and science platform focused on carbon removal

July 17, 2023
Carbon removal — technology that aims to remove carbon emissions from the environment by breaking it down and turning it into something less harmful — saw a big splash of attention last year after Stripe, Shopify, Meta, Alphabet and more collectively agreed to pump $1 billion into funding removal startups. Today, a London startup called […]

Are software companies good businesses?

July 17, 2023
The market allowed tech companies to be unprofitable for a while and that era is now ending. But the matter is more nuanced if you think more long term.

How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules

July 17, 2023
It’s becoming increasingly clear that courts, not politicians, will be the first to determine the limits on how AI is developed and used in the US. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into whether OpenAI violated consumer protection laws by scraping people’s online data to train its popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. Meanwhile,…

Common Sense Media, a popular resource for parents, to review AI products’ suitability for kids

July 17, 2023

Common Sense, a well-known nonprofit organization devoted to consumer privacy, digital citizenship and providing media ratings for parents who want to evaluate the apps, games, podcasts, TV shows, movies, and books their children are consuming, announced this morning it will introduce another type of product to its ratings and reviews system: AI technology products. The […]

Common Sense Media, a popular resource for parents, to review AI products’ suitability for kids by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models

July 17, 2023

With the pandemic acting as an accelerant, the healthcare industry is embracing AI enthusiastically. According to a 2020 survey by Optum, 80% of healthcare organizations have an AI strategy in place, while another 15% are planning to launch one. Vendors — including Big Tech companies — are rising to meet the demand. Google recently unveiled […]

MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked

July 17, 2023

Microsoft still doesn’t know — or want to share — how China-backed hackers stole a key that allowed them to stealthily break into dozens of email inboxes, including those belonging to several federal government agencies. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said it was a matter of “ongoing investigation” how the hackers obtained a Microsoft […]

Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: heart transplants for babies, and Big Tech’s tax tracking

July 17, 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. This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year A biotech company called eGenesis is experimenting with transplanting the hearts of young gene-edited pigs into baby baboons as part of a…