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…

SiMa.ai secures $70M funding to introduce a multimodal GenAI chip

April 4, 2024

SiMa.ai, a Silicon Valley-based startup producing embedded ML system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, today announced that it has raised a $70 million extension funding round as it plans to bring its second-generation chipset, specifically built for multimodal generative AI processing, to market. According to Gartner, the market for AI-supporting chips globally is forecast to more than double […]

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Decode GTM strategies with Index Ventures’ Paris Heymann at TC Early Stage 2024

April 4, 2024

TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 is welcoming an outstanding addition to its roster of speakers as Paris Heymann, partner at Index Ventures, takes the stage. In his session titled “Scaling Through Chaos: The Art & Science of GTM,” Heymann promises to delve deep into the intricacies of go-to-market strategies at the April 25 event in Boston. […]

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India, grappling with election misinfo, weighs up labels and its own AI safety coalition

April 4, 2024

India, long in the tooth when it comes to co-opting tech to persuade the public, has become a global hotspot when it comes to how AI is being used, and abused, in political discourse, and specifically the democratic process. Tech companies, who built the tools in the first place, are making trips to the country […]

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ChromeOS brings customization for keyboard shortcuts

April 4, 2024

Google is rolling out the April update to ChromeOS users with features like the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts and mouse button actions. The update also brings improved offline text-to-speech voice support. The ChromeOS M123 update is rolling out to users over the next few days. Let’s go through these new features. The main new […]

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Why the lifetime of nuclear plants is getting longer

April 4, 2024
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Aging can be scary. As you get older, you might not be able to do everything you used to, and it can be hard to keep up with the changing times. Just…

The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment

April 4, 2024
In late March of 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David Keith and Frank Keutsch, laid out plans to conduct what would have been the first solar geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere. Instead, it became the focal point of a fierce public debate over whether it’s okay to research such…

Business planning startup Pigment raises $145 million round in rare French tech megaround

April 4, 2024

Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a $145 million funding round just five years after its inception. The enterprise software company offers a business planning platform so that large companies can visualize their past financial performance and forecast upcoming quarters. This funding round comes as a bit of a surprise as large rounds have been few […]

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