These Are the 10 Hottest Franchise Categories For 2024
Based on the trends, we’re predicting which categories will be all the rage in 2024. Check out the list.
The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat
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. How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of…
Meet the Pizza-Making Robots Churning Out 600 Pies Hourly at PizzaHQ
PizzaHQ co-founder Jay Udrija discusses changes in the pizza Industry, new restaurant tech, and food service robotics that have amped up his business.
Monta Vista Capital closes its largest fund to date
Setting Monta Vista apart is that the firm doesn’t raise capital from institutional investors, but rather leverages a large network of 65 individual investors.
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How Facebook went all in on AI
The following is excerpted from BROKEN CODE: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets by Jeff Horwitz. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2023 by Jeff Horwitz. In 2006, the U.S. patent office received a filing…
AI is at an inflection point, Fei-Fei Li says
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “This moment in AI is an inflection moment,” Fei-Fei Li told me recently. Li is co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute and one of the most prominent computer science researchers of…
How to Calm Your Busy Mind, According to World-Renowned Brain Coach Jim Kwik
In this exclusive excerpt from Kwik’s new book, he explains how to reclaim your brain and lower your stress.
Copart (CPRT) Earnings Preview: An Auto Stock to Consider?
Copart (CPRT) posted better-than-expected revenue and earnings for the fourth quarter of 2023. Further, this auto auction company’s outlook appears promising, propelled by solid demand for its services and strategic…
The Biggest Questions: How did life begin?
How life begins is one of the biggest and hardest questions in science. All we know is that something happened on Earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, and it may well have occurred on many other worlds in the universe as well. But we don’t know what does the trick. Somehow a soup of…
Giskard’s open-source framework evaluates AI models before they’re pushed into production
Giskard is a French startup working on an open-source testing framework for large language models. It can alert developers of risks of biases, security holes and a model’s ability to generate harmful or toxic content. While there’s a lot of hype around AI models, ML testing systems will also quickly become a hot topic as […]
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Nepal joins a growing list of countries banning TikTok
Another country is banning TikTok, the ByteDance-owned short video behemoth with over one billion active users around the world. The decision, first reported by the New York Times, came shortly after the Himalayan country introduced a rule requiring social platforms to register with the local government. TikTok’s refusal to curb hate content was affecting “social harmony,” […]
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