When a historic UK-based retailer set out to modernize its IT environment, it was wrestling with systems that had grown organically for more than 175 years. Prior digital transformation efforts had resulted in a patchwork of hundreds of integration flows spanning cloud, on-premises systems, and third-party vendors, all communicating across multiple protocols. The company needed…
AI startups are reaching growth stage much faster. That’s exciting, but also risky, because investors might pour millions into a company only to watch it be unseated in a few months.
Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit, and which has the power to elect some of the company’s board of directors.
Early-stage AI startups are imbuing new life into San Francisco’s Northern Waterfront, after years of “for lease” signs dotting the post-pandemic landscape. According to the San Francisco Business Times, five AI-focused companies — four backed by Y Combinator — recently leased 23,900 square feet at the Waterfront Plaza complex. This is part of a citywide […]
The head of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company according to Bloomberg News. The departure comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed the company will have “thousands” of Optimus robots operating in its factories by the end of this year. “And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than […]
A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.