February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]

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‘Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’ has a VTuber gym leader

October 12, 2022

I didn’t know we needed a VTuber Gym Leader in the Pokémon universe. Then, we met Iono. Last week, Pokémon released a 14-minute trailer about the upcoming “Pokémon Scarlet & Violet” games, which will mark the ninth generation of the iconic franchise’s main series installments. So this morning, when Pokémon unveiled another teaser for the […]

‘Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’ has a VTuber gym leader by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Polestar steers towards the mass market with its first electric SUV

October 12, 2022

EV maker Polestar has unveiled the Polestar 3, its first SUV designed to help propel the startup to bona fide mass market automaker. Priced from $83,900, the 489-horsepower Polestar 3 will achieve an estimated 300-mile range, according to Polestar – a competitive set of figures designed to compete with a forthcoming crop of battery-electric luxury […]

Polestar steers towards the mass market with its first electric SUV by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung and Google partner to speed up Matter-enable smart home setups

October 12, 2022

Samsung and Google announced a new partnership today that will allow easier setup for Matter-enabled devices on both Samsung SmartThings and Google Home systems. At the Samsung Developer Conference held in San Fransisco, the Korean tech giant said that it will update its SmartThings app in the coming months so that users can onboard Matter-enabled […]

Samsung and Google partner to speed up Matter-enable smart home setups by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Pixel Watch delivers nice hardware, but fails to answer the ‘why’

October 12, 2022

It took some evasive maneuvering to get us here — the building out of a small-scale hardware ecosystem, coupled with a couple big-ticket acquisitions and a partnership with one of its largest potential competitors. But suddenly, Google emerging as competitive in the smartwatch space doesn’t seem an altogether outlandish proposition. One can make a compelling […]

Google’s Pixel Watch delivers nice hardware, but fails to answer the ‘why’ by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Why Entrepreneurs Use No-Code To Launch MVPs

October 12, 2022
You’ve heard of the minimum viable product, but what about the minimum lovable product? In an increasingly competitive market, can you afford to start something that isn’t perfect?

Oh look, TripActions raised at a $9.2B valuation after reported $12B IPO filing

October 12, 2022

TripActions, a corporate travel and expenses company, has raised a combination of equity and debt at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion, up from its prior valuation of $7.5 billion. The funding is a $154 million equity round from investors including returning investors Andreessen Horowitz and Premji Invest, and a $150 million structured financing deal […]

Oh look, TripActions raised at a $9.2B valuation after reported $12B IPO filing by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft launches new security services aimed at protecting code in the cloud

October 12, 2022

At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced Defender Cloud Security Posture Management and Defender for DevOps, two new offerings within the company’s Defender for Cloud service (previously Cloud App Security) aimed at managing software development and runtime security across multicloud, multiple-pipeline environments. Currently available in public preview, they work with GitHub and Azure DevOps to […]

Microsoft launches new security services aimed at protecting code in the cloud by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft’s Edge browser gets shared Workspaces, new security features and more

October 12, 2022

It’s Microsoft Ignite this week and while a lot of the announcements this week target the kinds of IT professionals and admins who really need more deployment options for Azure Kubernetes Service through Azure Arc, the company is also announcing a few user-facing updates to its Edge browser. The most important of these is likely […]

Microsoft’s Edge browser gets shared Workspaces, new security features and more by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft expands Azure OpenAI Service with DALL-E 2 in preview

October 12, 2022

When Azure OpenAI Service launched in 2021, the service — a part of Azure Cognitive Services — provided enterprise-tailored access to OpenAI’s API through the Azure platform for applications like language translation and text autocompletion. That’s not changing. But after expanding the service in May with fine-tuning features, Microsoft is today introducing invite-only access to […]

Microsoft expands Azure OpenAI Service with DALL-E 2 in preview by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch