This Week in AI: Addressing racism in AI image generators

February 24, 2024

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Google paused its AI chatbot Gemini’s […]

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Byju’s founder, ousted by shareholders, says rumors of his firing ‘greatly exaggerated’

February 24, 2024

Byju Raveendran, the founder of eponymous edtech group Byju’s, told employees on Saturday that he continues to remain the chief executive of the startup and that rumors of his firing have been “greatly exaggerated,” a day after a shareholder group voted to remove him at an emergency general meeting. In a 758-word letter, content of […]

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Is a Stock Bubble Forming?

February 24, 2024
We all have Nvidia (NVDA) to thank for the S&P 500 (SPY) finally breaking above 5,000. Truly one of the most impressive earnings announcements in years. Yet the valuation for…

Quick thinking and a stroke of luck averted a Moon lander disaster for Intuitive Machines

February 24, 2024

Intuitive Machines‘ spacecraft touched down yesterday on the lunar surface… sideways. CEO Steve Altemus confirmed during a press conference Friday that, while it wasn’t a perfect landing, it’s nothing short of a miracle the spacecraft landed intact at all. Using a small model of the lander, Altemus demonstrated how engineers believe the spacecraft, called Odysseus, […]

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As Techstars retools, some former staffers say it lost focus on what made it successful

February 23, 2024

Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs. 

Criticism from former members of its decisions lit social media channels who argued that the famed startup accelerator has lost focus on the very thing that historically made it so successful.

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Techstars CEO defends changes, says physical presence in a city is not necessary for investment

February 23, 2024

Earlier this week, accelerator group Techstars announced changes to its operations. But what was planned internally to be an exciting new chapter for the organization ended up being somewhat of a PR nightmare.  Techstars found itself facing criticism for some of its decisions and execution after announcing it would shut down its Boulder and Seattle […]

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