The Download: fetal brain surgery, and a White House AI summit

May 5, 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. Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind What’s happened: A seven-week-old baby girl is one of the first people to have undergone an…

Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming business set to become profitable in 2023

May 5, 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery announced Friday that its streaming business will turn a profit in 2023. The company previously said it expected to break even by 2024 and become profitable in 2025. “It is an important time for Warner Bros. Discovery. We’ve come through some major restructurings and have repositioned our businesses with greater precision and […]

Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming business set to become profitable in 2023 by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

With DeepFloyd, generative AI art gets a text upgrade

May 5, 2023

Generative AI is pretty impressive in terms of its fidelity these days, as viral memes like Balenciaga Pope would suggest. The latest systems can conjure up scenescapes from city skylines to cafes, creating images that appear startlingly realistic — at least on first glance. But one of the longstanding weaknesses of text-to-image AI models is, […]

With DeepFloyd, generative AI art gets a text upgrade by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Security researcher finds trove of Capita data exposed online

May 5, 2023

London-based outsourcing giant Capita left a trove of data exposed online for 7 years, TechCrunch has learned, just weeks after the company admitted to a data breach potentially impacting customer data.  Requesting anonymity, a security researcher alerted TechCrunch to an unprotected Amazon-hosted storage bucket, which was secured by Capita last week.  The AWS bucket, which […]

Security researcher finds trove of Capita data exposed online by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

After bootstrapping for five years, Instruqt raises a €15M Series A from Blossom Capital

May 5, 2023

Netherlands-based Instruqt has a product allowing companies to more easily test how a new software would run inside their organization. After bootstrapping its way to growth, it has now raised €15 million in a Series A round led entirely by Blossom Capital. It’s much easier to sell a software product into a company if they […]

After bootstrapping for five years, Instruqt raises a €15M Series A from Blossom Capital by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch