Costco Is Now Offering an Additional Exclusive Perk to Members in All 50 States
Members can now access discounted outpatient medical care through a partnership with healthcare startup Sesame.
ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…
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Kolena, a startup building tools to test AI models, raises $15M
Kolena, a startup building tools to test, benchmark and validate the performance of AI models, today announced that it raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation from SignalFire and Bloomberg Beta. The new cash brings Kolena’s total raised to $21 million, and will be put toward growing the company’s […]
Byju’s to cut as many as 5,000 more jobs amid business restructuring
Byju’s plans to cut as many as 5,000 jobs in the coming weeks, a person familiar with the matter said, as the Indian edtech giant looks to pare down costs amid a broad restructuring of its business. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which recently appointed a new head for its India business, is planning to eliminate several […]
Photo-sharing app Lapse hits top of the App Store by forcing you to invite your friends
Forget invite-only social apps, Lapse is testing a new technique to acquire its users: it forces you to invite your friends in order to get in. The reinvention of a social camera app first introduced in 2021, Lapse is now king of the U.S. App Store after having jumped from No. 118 Overall earlier this […]
Alchemist Accelerator’s latest startups range from sneakernet for energy to solar panel cleaning bots
This morning is Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day, and there are 22 companies making their debut across a wide range of industries. Whether you’re building a construction business, cleaning solar panels, or exploring quantum computing, there’s something for you here. Alchemist also announced a partnership with Microsoft under which the latter will provide startups with $350K […]
Tech layoffs are all but a thing of the past
Provided that tech stocks don’t drop by a surprise 10%, I suspect that we’re entering a period in which tech companies once again grow their headcounts
OpenAI’s GPT-4 with vision still has flaws, paper reveals
When OpenAI first unveiled GPT-4, its flagship text-generating AI model, the company touted the model’s multimodality — in other words, its ability to understand the context of images as well as text. GPT-4 could caption — and even interpret — relatively complex images, OpenAI said, for example identifying a Lightning Cable adapter from a picture […]
Meta Connect 2023: How to watch the Quest 3 reveal
Meta’s annual Connect conference kicks off with a keynote tomorrow September 27 at 10AM PT/1PM ET. Facebook’s parent is expected to make the Meta Quest 3 the centerpiece of the event. The latest version of the headset arrives three years after its predecessor and a little under a year since the company unveiled the Quest Pro […]
Apple Podcasts adds original programming from Apple Music, Apple News+ and other apps
As Google is shifting its podcast listeners over to YouTube Music, Apple today announced an upgraded experience for its own Apple Podcasts app, following the release of iOS 17. With the software update, the service will now support a refreshed design with full-screen artwork, a more streamlined queue, episode art, interactive widgets, search filters and […]