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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We cannot provide enough handicapping to eliminate the fact that so very many 2021 tech IPOs were, from a returns perspective, hot garbage once they floated.
Maybe we didn’t deserve any IPOs this year by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Sila finds itself in a perfect storm of product-market fit and is steadily advancing on its path to produce battery cells for automakers on U.S. soil.
Sila’s Gene Berdichevsky on the ‘5-year roller coaster’ facing battery companies by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
More tech antitrust activity: Spain’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive behavior by the Dutch online travel agency giant, Booking.com, following a couple of complaints lodged by the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers and the Regional Hotel Association of Madrid. The national competition regulator said today that it will look into whether […]
Online travel giant Booking.com faces antitrust probe in Spain by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
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Driverless in Phoenix and GM takes its EV offensive beyond vehicles by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Cruise never planned to make its own silicon. But in the quest to commercialize robotaxis — and make money doing it — those never planned pursuits can suddenly seem a lot more appealing. Cruise realized that the price of chips from suppliers was too high, the parts were too big and the reliability of the […]
Why Cruise is making its own chips, and a lot more besides by Roberto Baldwin originally published on TechCrunch
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Even decacorns have their challenges by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch