Interview with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn’t perfect, but neither are you

March 15, 2023

OpenAI shipped GPT-4 today, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work. GPT-4 improves upon its predecessor, GPT-3, in key ways, for example giving more factually true statements and allowing developers to prescribe its style and behavior more easily. It’s also multimodal in the sense that it can understand images, allowing […]

Interview with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn’t perfect, but neither are you by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

3 Entertainment Stocks You’ll Want to Avoid or Sell Short

March 15, 2023
The entertainment business might remain under pressure amid the macroeconomic challenges. With rising fears of a hard landing, fundamentally weak stocks AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC), Cinemark Holdings (CNK), and National…

Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database

March 15, 2023

Open source observability platform Grafana Labs today announced that it has acquired Pyroscope, the company behind the eponymous open source continuous profiling platform. Founded in 2020, the Y Combinator-backed Pyroscope raised a seed round in 2021 and counts the likes of Sensor Tower, Confluent, Line and Plaid among its customers. Grafana plans to integrate Pyroscope […]

Grafana acquires Pyroscope and merges it with its Phlare continuous profiling database by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot

March 15, 2023

Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled its new GPT-4 model and competitor Anthropic unveiled its own ChatGPT competitor Claude. Parallelly, Quora announced that its chatbot app Poe will now have a paid tier that will let you ask questions to bots powered by these models. Poe subscriptions will set you back $19.99 per month or $199.99 per year, […]

Quora’s Poe is launching subscriptions to let you chat with GPT-4 powered bot by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung commits $230B for five new chip plants in South Korea

March 15, 2023

Samsung Electronics said today that it plans to invest approximately $230 billion (300 trillion won) to build five new memory and foundry fabs in South Korea — a big move in line with the government’s ambitious aim to set up a mega semiconductor hub in Yongin, on the outskirts of Seoul. The investments will be […]

Samsung commits $230B for five new chip plants in South Korea by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Bear Market Odds Skyrocket!

March 15, 2023
There were plenty of reasons to be bearish on the stock market (SPY) coming into 2023. This is especially true with inflation still too hot leading the Fed to increase…

Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway

March 15, 2023

Healy Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. Growth at all costs is out — and cutting burn and extending runway is in. And now that many startups are running through the venture funding they raised in the go-go-go times of pre-2021, many founders are facing the […]

Zero-based budgeting: A proven framework for extending runway by Jenna Routenberg originally published on TechCrunch

GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices

March 15, 2023

GitHub has published its own internal guides and tools on how to go about setting up an open source program office (OSPO). The new GitHub-OSPO repository on GitHub (where else?) is aimed at businesses in the first year of setting up their inaugural OSPO, and includes everything from policies covering contributor license agreements (CLA) to […]

GitHub releases blueprint for budding open source program offices by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

This couple just got married in the Taco Bell metaverse

March 15, 2023
Last month, Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole got married. This was no ordinary wedding, though. It was hosted on Decentraland, a virtual platform, and sponsored by Taco Bell.  I tried to attend. As a reporter covering virtual spaces and a fellow Indian-American, I was intrigued. Weddings are very important in Indian culture, and I wanted…