AI is going 4-dimensional
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday morning. State-sponsored bad actors have long been able to make “deepfake” videos that are good enough to trick unsophisticated viewers — and probably some more clued-in folks, too. That sort of work takes significant processing
Read moreAI chip startup Tenstorrent lands $100M investment from Hyundai and Samsung
The appetite for hardware to train AI models is voracious. AI chips are forecast to account for up to 20% of the $450 billion total semiconductor market by 2025, according to McKinsey. And Insight Partners, the VC firm, projects that sales of AI chips will climb to $83.3 billion in
Read moreHinton vs. Murdoch: A tale of two AIs
At Collision 2023, held in Toronto in late June, there was much discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) and more specifically the ChatGPT chatbot, but nothing illustrated the current situation better than separate keynote speeches delivered by Colin Murdoch and Dr. Geoffrey Hinton. Murdoch, chief business officer of Google DeepMind, an
Read moreAmazon Music teams up with Bandsintown to let fans shop merch from popular artists
Amazon Music announced a new merch integration with concert discovery platform Bandsintown to allow more than 590,000 artists to promote their merchandise on the Bandsintown website and app. Previously, artists could only link their Shopify store. The new merchandise featured on Bandsintown is from the Amazon Music Artist Merch Shop
Read moreTop trends impacting the future of data science and machine learning: Gartner
In a new report, Gartner has identified five trends that are impacting the future of data science and machine learning (DSML). These trends take into account the growing significance of data in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, as the technology continues to explode across nearly every industry. Peter Krensky,
Read moreTechCrunch+ Roundup: How pitch decks fail, inside the AI hype cycle, budgeting for a downturn
When I’m dining out in unfamiliar territory, I’ll usually find a restaurant on the beaten path — if a place has no customers, it makes me leery. Tech investors have similar appetites when it comes to follow-on investment, writes Champ Suthipongchai, co-founder and general partner at deep tech VC firm
Read moreSoftware and the Allee effect
The Allee effect is named after Warder Clyde Allee who added a term to the famous logistic equation. His added term is highlighted in blue. Here N is the population of a species over time, r is the intrinsic rate of increase, K is the carrying capacity, and A is
Read moreNikola CEO steps down, replaced by chairman
EV truck maker Nikola Corp. said Friday that president/CEO Michael Lohscheller is leaving the top executive positions due to a family health issue. He will be replaced by board chairman Steve Girsky, a former GM board member and the CEO of the special purpose acquisition company that merged with Nikola
Read moreMy First VisionOS Application
Learn some basics of VisionOSSource: apple.comI’ve been working on SwiftUI projects for a while, and I’m really interested in the brand-new upcoming operating system, visionOS. It utilizes frameworks like SwiftUI, RealityKit, and ARKit. I want to play around with it and build a simple app for visionOS.Discover VisionOSApple Vision Pro offers
Read moreImproving My Code by Returning Early, Returning Often!
Photo by Joel Henry on UnsplashI’ve been a developer for over five years, and one of the best things I’ve learned is functional programming. Which gets a lot of hype and can be a bit daunting, but I’ve broken it down into a few simple ideas:Returning early and oftenSingle purpose functionsThese are pretty
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