When you hear the phrase “artificial intelligence,” it may be tempting to imagine the kinds of intelligent machines that are a mainstay of science fiction or extensions of the kinds of apocalyptic technophobia that have fascinated humanity since Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. But the kinds of AI that are rapidly being integrated into businesses around

Singapore has carved out dedicated cloud resources so its government agencies can deploy artificial intelligence (AI) applications more efficiently and securely. The cloud cluster has been established with the aim of driving up AI adoption in the public sector and supporting research into how AI can be applied, said the Smart Nation and Digital Gov

Henry Hauser is counsel in Perkins Coie’s antitrust and litigation practice groups and has significant experience working on matters related to antitrust investigations and litigation under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Shylah Alfonso is Firmwide Chair of Perkins Coie’s Antitrust & Unfair Competition Litigati

London-based fintech unicorn Revolut announced on Friday that it has surpassed 30M retail customers worldwide and processes over 400M transactions a month. Nik Storonsky, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, says, “Revolut is growing at almost one million customers per month. This is a fantastic achievement for the company and reaching 30 million

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our new curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out our new Megadeals Tracker here. This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. See last month’s top rounds here. You had to go big in May to get on th

In our Behind The Curtain Q&As, we explore the venture capital ecosystem with some unexpected guides. In this first installment, a Crunchbase News editor chats with a free-range chatbot who has slipped its parameters for a candid discussion. Thank you for taking the time to talk to us. How are you today? Chatbot: Is this off the record? No. Chatbot

A conversation with Lidiane Jones about Slack's future Image Credits: Salesforce In a flurry of activity at the end of last year, Salesforce announced that co-CEO Bret Taylor was stepping down. Shortly thereafter, Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield announced his exit. We would soon learn that his replacement would be Lidiane Jones, who at

Sequoia Capital announced this morning that it is breaking its global fund into three independent businesses that will chart their own paths going forward. Sequoia will continue to invest in the U.S. and Europe. Its China business will keep its name in Chinese and be known as HongShan in English. And the India and Southeast Asia business will becom

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange, of operating illegally as an unregistered exchange. It marks the second straight day the U.S. regulator has taken action against a large crypto exchange. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in

Image Credits: Apple Apple’s Vision Pro headset dominated the headlines at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event on Monday. But Apple is also going to launch a major update to iOS later this year. The upcoming iOS 17 update will introduce many “nice-to-have” features like personalized call poster, StandBy mode, live voicemail, and improve

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. The last full month of spring saw some big fundraising announcements. However, bigger doesn’t always mean better, as some smaller raises certainly are worth noting due to uniqueness, cool technology or t

A nonprofit formed by Mike Schroepfer, Meta’s former chief technology officer, has spun out out a new organization dedicated to accelerating research into ocean alkalinity enhancement—one potential means of using the seas to suck up and store away even more carbon dioxide. Additional Ventures, cofounded by Schroepfer, and a group of other foundatio

Image Credits: Binance A day after the SEC filed 13 charges against Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, as well as BAM Trading and BAM Management, it has requested a temporary restraining order to freeze assets for all of the parties involved, according to a filing on Tuesday. The filing shows that the motion was granted. The order is “necessary to pre

A tech trade association claims the UK could add £50bn to the economy annually with a government tech strategy. In a report which centred on the concerns of 1,000 members, techUK warned that without a strategy in place, the UK could lose its global tech position. The sector at present adds £150bn a year to the economy, after increasing by 25 per ce

Business services startup Instabase doubled its previous valuation to $2 billion after locking up a $45 million raise. The round, first reported by Bloomberg, was led by existing investor Tribe Capital. Other investors included NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutio

For the past two months, global venture funding has leveled off above the $20 billion mark, as investors continue to pare back their funding pace. Global funding almost reached $22 billion in May 2023, up a bit month over month and significantly down, around 44%, compared to May 2022, Crunchbase data shows. The funding setback has impacted all thre

Now that , and are behind us, it’s Apple’s turn to showcase what it’s got planned for 2023. And this year, the pressure’s on. Apple may have been at the top of the tech food chain a few years ago, but all of its big rivals have unleashed exciting innovations recently, from OLED displays to AI integrations and to smart home solutions. There’s a lot

Singapore has laid out a years-long roadmap it believes will ensure its digital infrastructure is ready to tap emerging technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and immersive multi-party interactions. The Digital Connectivity Blueprint maps out key priorities for the country's infrastructure over the next 1

Supply chain. Finance. Accounting. Inventory. Manufacturing. Procurement. HR. Name a mission-critical application that operates in the background to keep businesses running, and it falls under the umbrella of enterprise resource planning (ERP). Proactive and predictive tools for transformation Download the report Until recently, the sprawling, inte

Even before ChatGPT, one-third of CIOs say their organization had already deployed artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and 15% more believe they will deploy AI within the next year, according to the 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey. But deciding how best to proceed means factoring AI into business value, risk, talent and inve

London-based IQ Capital, a venture investor, announced on Monday that it has secured $400M (approximately €374M) across two funds, taking its assets under management to over $1B. The deep tech-focused VC has raised $200M in growth funding to support later-stage companies and closed its fourth fund at the same size targeting early-stage ventures. -

Expect to see a surge of new startups later this year and in 2024. That’s a prediction from Rob Biederman, co-founder of Asymmetric Capital Partners, an early seed-stage investor that raised its first fund two years ago to invest in promising new startups. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by t

Broadcom said its revenue grew 8 percent to $8.7 billion for its second quarter of fiscal year 2023, ended April 30, 2023. Broadcom has generated revenue of $6.808 billion (+9 percent) from Semiconductor solutions and $1.925 billion (+3 percent) from Infrastructure software. “Broadcom’s second quarter results were driven by demand for next generati

The Pentagon announced SpaceX’s Starlink, a satellite communications service founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has secured a Department of Defense contract to provide satellite services to Ukraine. The Pentagon stated that they are committed to collaborating with global partners to ensure Ukraine’s access to robust satellite and communication capab

U.S. seed startups have been the least affected by the venture funding downturn. But these companies are competing in a more crowded field than ever for investor attention and will likely have to wait longer to raise their Series A rounds — if they’re able to at all — an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue

Digital fraud of all kinds across the UK and Europe is on the rise, with forced verification and deepfakes taking up a greater proportion of cases than before, new research has claimed. With regards to the deepfakes, its proportion in the UK rose from 1.2% during the whole of 2022 to 5.9% in Q1 of this year alone. In Germany its proportion increase

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. Longevity enthusiasts want to create their own independent state. They’re eyeing Rhode Island. —Jessica Hamzelou Earlier this month, I traveled to Montenegro for a gathering of longevity enthusiasts, people inter

The European Union has used a transatlantic trade and technology talking shop to commit to moving fast and producing a draft Code of Conduct for artificial intelligence, working with US counterparts and in the hope that governments in other regions — including Indonesia and India — will want to get involved. What’s planned is a set of standards for

Governments are locking horns with the world's over how they should be policed, and the battle is heating up in the UK. In response to the to regulate streamers under the same rules as broadcast networks, has said that it would be "easier" to take early action by removing some movies and shows than risk being potentially liable. Ministers had propo

It’s not easy wrapping your head around what Boston-based Lightmatter does exactly. But investors get it, at least enough to give the company $154 million in its latest fundraise. The new funds have reportedly tripled the company’s valuation, in the latest string of eye-popping AI-related rounds. GV, the venture capital investment division of Alpha

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson says the metaverse's foundations are maturing. It's been tough, but Apple's expected AR headset could help. It's OK to be confused about the metaverse. Pessimists can point to Meta's difficulties over the last year convincing us we'll all inhabit this immersive 3D realm. Optimists can point to a mixed reality headset A

In March, an open letter spearheaded by tech industry experts sought to halt the development of advanced AI models out of fear the technology could pose a "profound risk to society and humanity". This week, a statement cosigned by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the "godfather" of AI Geoffrey Hinton, and others seeks to reduce the risk AI poses to push huma

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Everyone is talking about AI, it seems. But if you feel overwhelmed or uncertain about what the hell people are talking about, don’t worry. I’ve got you. I asked some of the best AI journalists in the business to

Image Credits: Romain Dillet / TechCrunch OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has been touring Europe for the past few days, meeting head of governments and startup communities to talk about AI regulation, ChatGPT and beyond. In his latest on-stage appearance at Station F in Paris, Altman answered questions from local entrepreneurs and shared his views about a

As every investor and their French Bulldog scrambles to get in on the AI action, we look to the data for answers. Ironically, we can’t even define “AI” as a sector per se since almost every startup looking for some coin or decent press suddenly identifies as an “AI-centered-something-or-other.” But for the purists, the numbers don’t lie — or in the

Image Credits: Henrik5000 Skyflow, a data-privacy startup, announced Friday that it has expanded the number of markets where it offers data residency support for companies that need to keep certain information inside defined borders. In today’s market, you probably can’t keep EU customer data in, say, South America and vice versa, so companies need

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our new curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out our new Megadeals Tracker here. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Search less.

After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice: One thing we’d like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, non-strategic board meeting. “Every board deck I’ve made and seen is more than 80 pages long,” says Tracy Young, co-founder and CEO of TigerEye. “I a

Drafting of the EU AI Act has been in progress since April 2021, with regulators looking to keep up with rapid innovations within startups and big tech corporations alike. A plenary vote for the draft of the EU AI Act is currently scheduled for mid-June 2023. Use cases for artificial intelligence were already being discovered regularly across many

Some of the most important screen real estate in the world is getting a chatbot that can adjust PC settings, perform searches and suggest music. With a tool called Windows Copilot, Microsoft has begun building an AI chat interface straight into its single most important software product, the company said Tuesday. The tool will perform tasks like su

recently made the big leap to the iPhone in the US and now it’s finally launched in more countries, including the UK. You can download the free, official version of the AI chatbot right now from the App Store – either by following our guide on , or following this direct link to the . With dozens of third-party ChatGPT apps still clogging up the App

thinks businesses are doing data wrong. And it’s rolling out a tool to fix that. The company has announced the launch of interactive data visualizations built right into the . These are engaging data maps, charts, graphs that make things seem just that little bit clearer. Most users will have toyed with them on news sites like the BBC. Now, they ca

On the 25th May 2018, the EU GDPR came into force, forcing organisations across the European Union to rethink how they were managing and protecting customer data. In an increasingly digitised business world, data privacy and protection remain paramount to the long-term success of firms of all sizes and sectors. With big tech corporations — notably

This experimental trial of Google Search competes directly with Bing AI and ChatGPT. Google has launched Search Generative Experience, or SGE, an experimental version of Search that integrates artificial intelligence answers directly into results, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Unlike a normal Google Search, which brings up a list of

Generative AI is actively changing the way things are done, including online advertising. A growing number of businesses are turning to generative AI to support their commercial and marketing goals. For instance, Meta added generative AI tools to its ads and Bing introduced ads into its massively popular AI chatbot Bing Chat. Now Google joins the l

Worldcoin developer Tools For Humanity — co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has raised a $115 million Series C led by Blockchain Capital. The funding also includes previous and new investors including a16z crypto, Bain Capital Crypto and Distributed Global. The San Francisco-based startup is building tools in support of Worldcoin, an Ethereum-base

Many wondered after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and with interest rates continuing to creep up, if the debt market would turn sour for startups. It hasn’t turned, but seems to have stagnated. Despite some recent debt rounds from well-known startups that garnered headlines, VC-backed startups in the U.S. have been raising about $5.5 billion

OpenAI has expanded the availability of its ChatGPT app for iOS users in India and 32 other countries — just a week after its launching it in the U.S. The list of new countries include Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Estonia, Ghana, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon,

Image Credits: Bloomberg / Contributor / Getty Images Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency,” in which Meta is being massively restructured to save money and flatten the organization structure. Employees knew the layoffs wer

Google’s Sundar Pichai has agreed to work with lawmakers in Europe on what’s being referred to as an “AI Pact” — seemingly a stop-gap set of voluntary rules or standards while formal regulations for applying AI are still being worked on. Pichai was meeting with Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, who put out a stateme

On the back of pretty strong earnings reports and valuations, public cybersecurity companies are outperforming the broader technology segment. Yet, funding for cybersecurity startups has flatlined. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. It’s an interesti

New York generated roughly 20% of its electricity from solar power for a brief period last week, a record for the state. According to the New York Independent System Operator, which manages the state's electrical grid, a combination of residential and commercial installations generated 3,330 megawatts of electricity between noon and 1 p.m. on May 1

After months of moving fast and breaking things at Twitter, Elon Musk’s been on a crash course of a different sort in the last several weeks, doing the rounds of interviews across a range of media events and with different media platforms (although TC’s invite may have gotten lost in the mail…). Yesterday, it was the turn of the WSJ, which featured

Governments Are Increasing Digital investments in Response to Global Turmoil Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total $589.8 billion in 2023, an increase of 7.6% from 2022, according to Gartner, Inc. “Global challenges like inflation and workforce scarcity and their local repercussions are testing the abilities of government CIOs to re

For years, we’ve debated the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for society, but it wasn’t until now that people can finally see its daily impact. But why now? What changed that’s made AI in 2023 substantially more impactful than before? First, consumer exposure to emerging AI innovations has elevated the subject, increasing acceptance. From

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all se

We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, taking place this week in London, U.K. Below is a collection of the key announcements and insights coming out of the conference. You can read the highlights from Day 1 here and Day 2 here. On Day 3 from the conference, we are discussing how to avoid data management mi

The new experience is already rolling out to ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Microsoft announced Tuesday that OpenAI is using data from the Bing search engine to help improve its ChatGPT chatbot. Incorporating Bing data allows the chatbot to provide real-time information to users, but at first, you'll have to pay a monthly premium for ChatGPT Plus to use

AI regulation has been a hot topic with AI developments continuing to grow in popularity and quantity everyday. Government officials, tech leaders and concerned citizens have all been calling for action. Now a major player in the AI space, OpenAI, the company behind the wildly popular ChatGPT, joins the discussion. Also: 6 harmful ways ChatGPT can

If AI does not lead venture out of its current slowdown, perhaps nothing will. A day after investors flooded $700 million into two AI startups — Builder.ai and Anthropic — Turkey-based AI marketing platform Insider locked up another $105 million. Insider CEO and co-founder Hande Cilingir told Bloomberg the company’s valuation had increased “very mu

Well, just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier. Investors poured in $700 million into two AI startups Tuesday — Builder.ai and Anthropic — seemingly marking another level of the AI craze that has dominated the private markets since late last year. Leading the way, Anthropic — a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude — raised $450 milli

It was back in the Pandemic era of 2021 that we reported on the launch of Moonfire, at the time a $60 million “Fund I” seed-stage “data-driven” VC geared around the new world of remote working and remote pitching. It’s new $115 million fund-raise (“Fund II”) plans to continue what it calls its “data-driven” approach. Since its launch by former Atom

Shutterstock just got a really, really good clearance deal. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data. Start Your Search Meta, following an antitrust lawsuit, is siphoning off Giphy, an embedded platform to share looped animated videos (otherwise known as gifs). Sh

Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages—a tenfold increase on what’s currently available. It’s a significant step toward preserving languages that are at risk of disappearing, the company says. Meta is releasing its models to the public via the code hosting service GitHub. It claims that making t

Half a century ago, a small group of esteemed thinkers that called itself the Club of Rome got together to chew over a thorny question: What would happen if humanity continued to consume the world’s finite resources as if they were limitless? Their efforts generated the now-famous 1972 paper “The Limits to Growth,” in which they modeled what might

It’s finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing. Today the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) announced that Meta has been fined €1.2 billion (close to $1.3BN) — which the Board confirmed is the larges

Shipments of AR and VR devices in 2023 will reach 7.45 million units, marking an 18.2 percent decrease compared to previous figures, according to TrendForce forecast. The majority of this decline is expected to be borne by VR devices, with projected shipments hovering around 6.67 million units. This decrease can primarily be attributed to lower-tha

One of the most high-profile winners from the lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic was the tech sector, as businesses accelerated plans to increase flexibility across their operations. IT services were pivotal in facilitating flexible working practices such as giving employees and clients access to business functions from remote loc

We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, taking place this week in London, U.K. Below is a collection of the key announcements and insights coming out of the conference. On Day 1 from the conference, we are highlighting the Gartner opening keynote presentation on leading for purpose and making an impact, the

Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what's coming next. You can read more here. AI regulation is hot. Ever since the success of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, the public’s attention has been grabbed by wonder and worry about what these powerful AI tools can do. Generative AI has be

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard the term "generative AI" at least a handful of times now, perhaps thanks to the wildly popular ChatGPT service. The AI-powered chatbot's success didn't just shine a spotlight on OpenAI, the creator behind it, but it also catalyzed an AI arms race in the tech industry – a race from which

Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the oldest and more established venture firms in the U.S., earlier this year said it was earmarking $1 billion of its most recent fund solely for investments in artificial intelligence. The firm’s massive bet on the future potential for AI reflects its belief that the technology is a seismic shift that will fundame

WhatsApp has fulfilled one of its most highly anticipated requests from users by introducing message editing capabilities. “For those moments when you make a mistake or have a change of heart, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” the messaging app owned by Meta Platforms announced in a blog post on Monday. WhatsApp will roll out the ne

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. Food delivery by drone is just part of daily life in Shenzhen —Zeyi Yang In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, I watched as a drone descended onto a pickup kiosk to deliver the iced tea I’d ordered half an ho

Once upon a time, a startup valued at $1 billion was as rare as … well, a unicorn. That’s not the case anymore. Not only because companies are staying private longer, or because the volume of venture dollars has only increased since the term “unicorn” was coined a decade ago. Now, 2021 feels like a land far, far away, where funding was plentiful an

Adobe's Firefly generative AI tool offers a new way to fiddle with photos. Expect a lot of fun and fakery. Adobe is building generative AI abilities into its flagship image-editing software with a new Photoshop beta release Tuesday. The move promises to release a new torrent of creativity even as it gives us all a new reason to pause and wonder if

Apple on Tuesday said it entered a multi-billion-dollar deal with chipmaker Broadcom to use chips made in the United States. Under the multi-year deal, Broadcom will develop 5G radio frequency components with Apple that will be designed and built in several U.S. facilities, including Fort Collins, Colorado, where Broadcom has a major factory, Apple

We are bringing you news and highlights from the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, taking place this week in London, U.K. Below is a collection of the key announcements and insights coming out of the conference. You can read the highlights from Day 1 here. On Day 2 from the conference, we are exploring how to address data lake failures, how chief da

This article is Part Four of our series featuring workers displaced by the recent waves of tech layoffs who decided to found their own companies. In Part One we chatted with investors and founders and looked at data for early-stage startups. Part Two profiled entrepreneur Peter Henry and the fintech he founded in Latin America. In Part Three, we ch

With the release of Bing Chat and its partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft has managed to place itself at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and is outperforming tech rivals such as Google. As a result, most of the announcements made at the Microsoft Build 2023 developer conference relate to AI. Unsurprisingly, many of these updates focus

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It feels as though a switch has turned on in AI policy. For years, US legislators and American tech companies were reluctant to introduce—if not outright against—strict technology regulation. Now both have starte

Image Credits: Anthropic Anthropic, the prominent generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital. Anthropic wouldn’t disclose what the round valued its business at. But The Information reported in early March that the company was seeking to raise capital at an over-$4.1

While the future remains uncertain for Twitter, Meta is throwing its hat into the ring to build the next major microblogging platform. This new Meta app is expected to launch this summer, according to an email shared with a select group of creators, and viewed by TechCrunch. This text-based app will stand alone, but it will be partially integrated

The season of annual tech conferences is upon us, with Google I/O kicking it off last week. On Wednesday, it will be Microsoft's turn to take the stage with its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build. The conference will take place from May 23-May 25 in Seattle and May 23-24 online. If you can't make your way to Seattle, you can also attend t

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our new curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out our new Megadeals Tracker here. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. Search less.

Samsung was considering replacing the default search engine for its smartphones from Google to Bing. But according to recent reports, the company has abandoned this idea and decided to keep Google as the default search engine for its phones. Had Samsung, the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, chosen Bing as its default search engine for

The importance of data and analytics continues to grow across an ever-broadening range of business initiatives, as does the use of technology to support their delivery. Our extensive annual list of D&A predictions can serve as strategic planning assumptions to help you integrate D&A strategy into your digital business roadmap. “Digital business pro

Nokia has announced the expansion of its Fixed Network solutions suite, which will now be available through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. This expansion includes the introduction of AVA Fixed Network Insights, a new offering designed to help operators improve customer service and reduce operating costs. AVA Fixed Network Insights l

ChatGPT Dethroned: How Claude Became the New AI Leader Putting the world to shame Ignacio de Gregorio · Follow · Just now 7 min readJust now -- Share “The great AI race”. Source: Author with Diffusion model in the style of Tiago Hoisel We’ve grown accustomed to continuous breakthroughs in AI over the last few months. But not record-breaking ann

To achieve outcomes such as improved decision making or increased revenue, data and analytics leaders must focus from the outset on business value. A strategy framework is key. D&A framework Data-driven vision D&A strategy drivers Stakeholder outcomes Data strategy execution A framework helps D&A leaders lay strategy foundations A framework like th

BT Group said it aims to reduce the number of employees from 130,000 to between 75,000 and 90,000 by its 2030 financial year at the latest. Some 30,000 of its current employees are contractors. The job cut will impact both direct and contract workers. The company has been working through a transformation plan to build a national fiber network under

SoftBank is changing the name of its Opportunity Fund ahead of its third anniversary and just as it announces a new $150 million second fund. Search less. Close more. Grow your revenue with all-in-one prospecting solutions powered by the leader in private-company data. Start Your Search The SB Opportunity Fund — a $100 million fund that launched in

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads, including generative AI like the type that underpins its recently launched ad design and creation tools. It was an attempt at a projection of strength from Meta, which historically has

One of the biggest challenges facing organisations today is the ability to monitor and mitigate cybersecurity threats, with 39 per cent of UK businesses suffering an attack in 2022. There are several steps organisations can take to minimise the risk, such as implementing multi-factor authentication and regular employee training. While these are all

ChatGPT users who'd been looking for an official mobile app can now grab one courtesy of OpenAI, which today launched an iOS app for its popular AI chatbot. Designed for free ChatGPT users as well as paid Plus subscribers, the app provides the same capabilities as the website, letting you enter your requests and prompts and receive AI-generated inf

Image Credits: Jack Gruber / USA TODAY On Tuesday of this week, neuroscientist, founder and author Gary Marcus sat between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Christina Montgomery, who is IBM’s chief privacy trust officer, as all three testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee for over three hours. The senators were largely focused on Altman because he

While stating that next-gen chatbots like ChatGPT could “improve nearly every aspect of our lives”, OpenAI chief executive Altman identified possible “significant harm” caused globally by the technology and industry as his worst fear when discussing possible regulation. Altman insisted that generative AI could play a key role in overcoming global c

AI may have taken center stage at last week's Google I/O event, but Dave Burke, VP of engineering at Google, did touch on a few new customization options coming to the lock screen on Android 14. Android 14 was first announced back in February, with the release of its first Android 14 developer preview. In April, Google released the first public bet

Compared to a year ago, startup valuations have dipped across the board, no matter if you’re a startup raising a seed round or a Series E. But there’s good news if you’re a growth-stage startup: Valuations for startups raising Series A, B and C rounds across the world ticked higher in Q1 2023 from Q4 2022, according to data from CB Insights. That s

Apple hasn't released iOS 16.5 yet, but on Monday the tech giant came out with an updated version of the iOS 16.5 release candidate for developers and beta testers. A news release last week pointed to Apple making the iPhone update available to the public as early as today. The beta versions of iOS 16.5 bring more security patches and improvements