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Generative AI risks concentrating Big Tech’s power. Here’s how to stop it

April 18, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. If regulators don’t act now, the generative AI boom will concentrate Big Tech’s power even further. That’s the central argument of a new report from research institute AI Now. And it makes sense. To…

Cosmonic launches its WebAssembly PaaS into open beta

April 18, 2023

Cosmonic, the company behind the open-source wasmCloud project, today announced that its WebAssembly (Wasm) Platform-as-a-Service offering is now in public beta. In this open beta, Cosmonic is also introducing a number of new features that aim to make integrating Wasm into existing applications easier, including Cosmonic Connect Kubernetes, which makes integrating existing Kubernetes clusters and […]

Cosmonic launches its WebAssembly PaaS into open beta by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants

April 18, 2023

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology. Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services but the cost a lot and have rigid terms. And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality freelance consulting services, these are generally unsupervised that would never […]

Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Superchat’s new AI chatbot lets you message historical and fictional characters via ChatGPT

April 17, 2023

The company behind the popular iPhone customization app Brass, sticker maker StickerHub and others is out today with a new AI chat app called SuperChat, which allows iOS users to chat with virtual characters powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, what makes the app different from the default ChatGPT experience or the dozens of generic AI […]

Superchat’s new AI chatbot lets you message historical and fictional characters via ChatGPT by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube TV nabs its first-ever Technical Emmy win for ‘Views’ feature

April 17, 2023

YouTube TV just won its first-ever Technical Emmy award for its “Views” suite of features, which let users access sports highlights, key plays, player stats and game scores. At the 74th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards last night, YouTube TV was declared the winner for the category “AI-ML Curation of Sports Highlights.” “Thank you […]

YouTube TV nabs its first-ever Technical Emmy win for ‘Views’ feature by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch