Sure, Microsoft grabbed the headlines, but Amazon still top dog in the cloud

October 27, 2023

We’ve talked about the first to market advantage before, and it certainly applies when it comes to the cloud infrastructure market. While Microsoft made headlines this week for its AI implementation, and Alphabet took a big stock hit for its slight cloud miss, Amazon growth has quietly settled into low double digits growth. And it […]

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A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI

October 27, 2023

In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enabled it to detect when a customer was likely frustrated — and respond with proportionately more sympathy. If a customer asked Alexa to play a song and it queued up the wrong one, for example, and then the customer said “No, Alexa” in an […]

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OpenAI, Google and an “digital anthropologist”: the UN forms a high level board to explore AI governance

October 27, 2023

The halls of power are waking up to the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. The big question will be how much of an impact they will have on the march of progress if (and when) there are mis-steps. Yesterday, the United Nations announced a new AI advisory board — 38 people from across government, […]

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Aether’s $49M Series A deck

October 27, 2023

This pitch deck makes for some really interesting reading and storytelling, so let’s dive in and see if we can spot what happened and how.

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The Download: OpenAI’s top scientist on AGI, and gene therapy to restore hearing

October 27, 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. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his…