Commercial companies to collaborate for DARPA’s new lunar economy study
Establishing commercial markets on the moon is going to require thinking a little differently. That’s DARPA’s hunch, anyway. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the U.S. Department of Defense’s R&D arm, which has just selected 14 companies to participate in a new study to develop technological frameworks for a
Read moreGenerative AI increasingly used for threats to Canadian democracy: Report
Generative AI systems are increasingly being used by threat actors to influence elections around the world, including in Canada, says the latest report by Canada’s electronic spy agency on threats to this country’s democratic process. “We assess that AI synthetic content generation related to national elections will almost certainly increase
Read moreAs Bitcoin reaches the $44,000 threshold, why the surge and what’s next?
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Read moreNew AI Alliance to advance open source AI convenes IBM, Meta, AMD, excludes Microsoft, Google, AWS, Nvidia
IBM and Meta have partnered to form a new group, the AI Alliance, bringing together more than 50 organizations to promote open source development and innovation in artificial intelligence (AI). But many of the world’s biggest AI players, including Microsoft, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google, and Amazon Web Services (AWS ), all
Read moreYour mobile password manager might be exposing your credentials
A number of popular mobile password managers are inadvertently spilling user credentials due to a vulnerability in the autofill functionality of Android apps. The vulnerability, dubbed “AutoSpill,” can expose users’ saved credentials from mobile password managers by circumventing Android’s secure autofill mechanism, according to university researchers at the IIIT Hyderabad,
Read moreAsk Sophie: Does the H-1B visa require founders to give up equity and control?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on X Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by
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Don’t miss your chance to share your startup expertise and speak at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 25! Our call-for-content application deadline is January 10, 2024. The TechCrunch Early Stage Call for Content AMA “Wait, wut? Did you say ‘application’?” We sure did, but if you
Read moreGovernment and big tech funding newsrooms in Canada raises concerns
We have a news ecosystem in Canada in which most of the journalists could soon have at least half of their pay depend on the government, Google and any other offshore money that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) might come up with, deplored journalist and former CRTC regulator
Read moreVast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads
Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash. The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage (i.e. setups that move data between high- and low-cost storage hardware), today announced that it secured $118 million in a
Read moreIntroducing Chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs)
This introduction to chatbots and Large Language Models is excepted from the book Generative AI Tools for Developers: A Practical Guide. Continue reading Introducing Chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs) on SitePoint.
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