July 9, 2025

Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao

In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, AI journalist and author Karen Hao spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. She talked with executive editor Niall Firth about how she first covered the company in 2020 while on staff at MIT Technology Review, and…

Xata gives Jamstack developers access to a serverless data platform with an API call

November 2, 2022

A couple of years ago, Xata founder Monica Sarbu was putting together a passion project called Tupu.io, a platform she was building to help women in tech find mentors. She wanted to include a Postgres database with Elastic search in the Tupu web application, and as a side project, she wanted it to be fairly […]

Xata gives Jamstack developers access to a serverless data platform with an API call by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Trio of Brown University grads think elder care needs a helping hand with data

November 2, 2022

As a young boy growing up in Michigan, Robbie Felton went on home visits with his geriatric social worker mother. Seeing low-income, elderly and disabled patients so vulnerable stuck with Felton. As a student at Brown University, he became interested in how Medicare and Medicaid integrate to take care of these patient populations — so […]

Trio of Brown University grads think elder care needs a helping hand with data by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Accelerating the energy transition with Web3 technologies

November 2, 2022
The convergence of sustainability goals and technologies like blockchain and AI offer opportunities to the energy sector. The Fourth Industrial Revolution signals an oncoming disruption to every industry and market in the world. With the arrival of Web3, energy markets are at the cusp of this revolution. The convergence of AI, blockchain technology, edge computing,…

Using CRISPR to beat the world’s biggest killer, heart disease

November 2, 2022
2.14 With Verve Therapeutics, Musunuru is working to develop something “like a vaccine for heart disease” by changing a single DNA letter to another letter using a CRISPR technology called base editing. A clinical trial currently underway in New Zealand is giving patients a “one-time therapy to tackle what we traditionally thought was a chronic…

Digital bank Chime is cutting costs across the board – including 12% of staff

November 2, 2022

Digital bank Chime confirmed today that it is laying off 12% of its workforce, or about 160 people. According to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch, Chime co-founder Chris Britt described that the move was one of many that would help the company thrive “regardless of market conditions.” In the memo, Britt said that he […]

Digital bank Chime is cutting costs across the board – including 12% of staff by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch