June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already

January 12, 2023

The emergence in the last week of a particularly effective voice synthesis machine learning model called VALL-E has prompted a new wave of concern over the possibility of deepfake voices made quick and easy — quickfakes, if you will. But VALL-E is more iterative than breakthrough, and the capabilities aren’t so new as you might […]

VALL-E’s quickie voice deepfakes should worry you, if you weren’t worried already by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market

January 12, 2023

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Because they’re relatively affordable and can be programmed for a range of use cases, they’ve caught on particularly in the AI and machine learning space, where they’ve been used to accelerate the training of AI systems. The global FPGA […]

FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok fined in France for manipulative cookie consent flow

January 12, 2023

TikTok is the latest tech giant to be schooled by France’s data protection watchdog for breaking rules on cookie consent. The €5 million penalty announced today by the CNIL relates to a cookie consent flow TikTok had used on its website (tiktok.com) until early last year — in which the regulator found it was not […]

TikTok fined in France for manipulative cookie consent flow by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Career Karma’s latest layoff underscores edtech’s new challenge

January 12, 2023

Learning navigation platform Career Karma has laid off another 22 people across its global and domestic workforce, less than five months after it cut 60 staff members, according to sources. CEO and co-founder Ruben Harris confirmed the workforce reduction to TechCrunch. The cut shows that even as many edtech companies attempt to right-size their staff, […]

Career Karma’s latest layoff underscores edtech’s new challenge by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings

January 12, 2023

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company better known as HPE, today announced that it acquired Pachyderm, a startup developing a data science platform for “explainable, repeatable” AI. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, nor was the purchase price. But HP said that it plans to integrate Pachyderm’s capabilities into a platform that’ll deliver a pipeline […]

HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Lucid shares pop after exceeding EV production goal

January 12, 2023

Lucid Group eked out a small win in 2022. The EV automaker said Thursday it produced 7,180 of its luxury Air sedans in 2022, exceeding its previously lowered guidance for the year. Lucid adjusted its guidance in fall, stating it would produce 6,000 to 7,000 vehicles in 2022. Shares pooped more than 6% immediately following […]

Lucid shares pop after exceeding EV production goal by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch