December 20, 2024

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…

Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences

October 11, 2022

Life science businesses like big pharmaceutical companies have a singular set of needs when it comes to building applications. Their models and algorithms tend to be more sophisticated and data-intensive than most industries. Quantori, a Cambridge, MA startup, is building a Platform-as-a-Service tuned specifically to the needs of this vertical. The startup is attempting to […]

Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Viam rolls out a free beta of its cloud-based robotics tools

October 11, 2022

“What a lot of people tell me is ‘hardware is hard,’” Eliot Horowitz explains. “I have a really big problem with that statement.” The Viam Robotics CEO and MongoDB co-founder describes purchasing a Universal Robotics’ UR5 robot arm and programming it to play chess. “I don’t think hardware is hard. I think hardware is not […]

Viam rolls out a free beta of its cloud-based robotics tools by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Charli D’Amelio-endorsed fintech Step borrows $300M to bring crypto to teens

October 11, 2022

The last bull market created a new wave of investors as more and more people decided to make their first foray into the markets. Step, a digital banking service geared toward teens and young adults, is one of the many companies that set out to make money by serving those new investors. And although fates […]

Charli D’Amelio-endorsed fintech Step borrows $300M to bring crypto to teens by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: harmful AI, and a deadlier monkeypox variant

October 11, 2022
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. Who’s going to save us from bad AI? About damn time. That was the response from AI policy and ethics wonks to news last week that the White House’s science and technology advisory…

How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 Keynote (hint: Facebook)

October 11, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg will make his impassioned pleas that the metaverse is a real thing and a valid Next Big Business for Meta (neé The Facebook) on Tuesday. The annual Meta Connect developer conference kicks off with a keynote starting at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, which is followed immediately by a more technical […]

How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 Keynote (hint: Facebook) by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch