This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the wealth AI creates was in the news again last week. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that Altman is in…
OpenAI will host a developer conference — its first ever — on November 6, the company announced today. At the one-day OpenAI DevDay event, which will feature a keynote address and breakout sessions led by members of OpenAI’s technical staff, OpenAI said in a blog post that it’ll preview “new tools and exchange ideas” — […]
You’re just a couple weeks away from meeting the Startup Battlefield 200 companies in person at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023! We’re incredibly proud of — and impressed by — this year’s hand-picked cohort. To avoid utter overwhelm, we’re announcing them in groups, broken out by industry tracks. Note that the track fit may be a bit […]
The UK government appears to have steered out of a direct collision with the tech industry over a controversial, encryption-risking provision in the Online Safety Bill. Mainstream tech giants and smaller encrypted messaging services have been united in warning for many months that the bill poses a direct threaten to the security and privacy of […]