Fantuan acquires Chowbus’ food delivery business

January 24, 2024

With the acquisition comes a partnership between Fantuan and Chowbus that will meld each of their strengths with local Asian restaurants.

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TextQL aims to add AI-powered intelligence on top of business data

January 24, 2024

Mark Hay and Ethan Ding want to make every corporate decision a data-driven one. Ambitious? For certain. But the two engineers, who met a few years ago during the pandemic, are nothing if not optimistic. Hay and Ding are the co-founders of TextQL, a platform that connects a company’s existing data stack to large language […]

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Arcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI

January 24, 2024

While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to use closed-source AI APIs due to the perceived lack of transparency — but also resisted open source models over security concerns. “We came to realize that the primary challenge was overcoming […]

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Google announces new AI-powered features for education

January 24, 2024

Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom assignment. The company said that soon, AI […]

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The Download: how China’s regulating robotaxis

January 24, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How China is regulating robotaxis Not many technologies have had such a roller-coaster ride in the past year as robotaxis. In just a few months they went from San Francisco’s new darling to…

EU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups

January 24, 2024

European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of support measures aimed at charging up homegrown AI startups and scale ups. Artificial intelligence technologies — and especially generative AI models which are trained on very large data-sets and have capabilities such as being […]

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