The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open-source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and moved to join the likes of Kubernetes, Prometheus and fellow service mesh Linkerd as a CNCF Graduated […]
Istio graduates by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Google might be laser focused on generative AI these days, like the majority of its Big Tech competitors. But that hasn’t stopped the search giant from patronizing pretty out-there art projects, true to its experimental roots. Enter the latest creation from Google’s Art & Culture Lab, Viola the Bird, which uses AI to understand cello […]
Google’s latest art project recruits an animated bird — and AI — to play the cello by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
The first day of Amazon’s two-day Prime Day event saw U.S. sales rise nearly 6% year-over-year to $6.4 billion, according to Adobe Analytics Data. The number represents the single biggest e-commerce day so far in 2023. Amazon’s Prime Day event takes place on July 11 and 12 this year. The sales event gives Amazon the […]
US consumers spent $6.4 billion on the first day of Amazon’s Prime Day event by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
New U.S. inflation data is augmenting tech stocks, helping shares of cloud companies reach prices they haven’t been close to for nearly a year.
Cooling inflation in the US brings slight relief to tech valuations by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Keeping apace of the latest trends and innovation in climate tech and sustainability — an area that touches every industry and city — is nearly impossible. It’s why we created the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 and invited the best and brightest minds to share their insights. The dedicated Sustainability Stage will cover the […]
Announcing the Sustainability Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
There is a long list of Large Language Models (LLMs) out in the wild already, from OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Google’s PaLM2 to Meta’s LLaMA, to name three of the more high profile examples. Differentiation between LLMs is determined by factors including the core architecture of the model, training data used, model weights applied and any […]
Clibrain joins the generative AI race with Lince, an LLM optimized for Spanish by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch