The Million Dollar Matrix Multiply
The following post is by Wayne Joubert, the newest member of our consulting team. Wayne recently retired from his position as a Senior Computational Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Training large language models like GPT-4 costs many millions of dollars in server expenses. These costs are expected to trend
Read moreYL Ventures details the challenges facing Israeli cybersecurity startups
The Israeli cybersecurity industry, much like the global one, has been undergoing an evolution that seemed to peak in 2021 with soaring funding rounds, overwhelming valuations, and multiple newly minted unicorns, only to cool down dramatically amidst the market slowdown of 2022 with steep declines and frozen growth rounds. The
Read moreHow can AI shape a positive future for work?
Each industrial revolution has caused disruption, but it doesn’t necessarily mean a net loss of jobs. While automation and artificial intelligence (AI) can eliminate jobs and industries, they also create new ones. AI has already improved our lives, especially in the service industry, by increasing efficiency and giving us more
Read moreGalaxy AI Launch Set to Propel Mobile Technology into a New Era
One of the world’s most prominent smartphone makers, that rivals Apple’s iPhone – Samsung taps into artificial intelligence. The appliance and mobile technology company plans to leverage the technology to increase sales and keep up rapid transformations taking place in the digital world in the new year. Samsung Electronics Co.
Read moreIndia widens regulatory grip over tech firms
In 2023, India introduced a series of regulations and tweaked policies that borrowed from Europe’s antitrust approach and Chinese-style government surveillance, alarming executives and investors in the world’s most populous market. Additional regulations are on the horizon in 2024 as New Delhi continues a regulatory shift to more tightly govern
Read moreWhat’s Ahead for African Telcos in 2024?
Africa’s dynamic telecom sector is gearing up for a prosperous 2024, expanding operations and diversifying services to cater to an increasingly digital-savvy customer base. Industry projections anticipate a $2.24-billion growth in the African telecom sector between 2020 and 2024, with the rollout of high-speed 5G connectivity and an expanding range
Read moreIs there an elliptic curve with 2024 points?
On New Years Day I posted about groups of order 2024. Are there elliptic curves of order 2024? The Hasse-Weil theorem relates the number of points on an elliptic curve over a finite field to the number of elements of the field. Namely, an elliptic curve E over a field
Read moreWhy Fortnite is getting into cozy gaming
When it comes to figuring out a formula for a hit game that keeps players coming back year after year, Saxs Persson would know. Now at Epic Games overseeing the Fortnite ecosystem, Persson previously spent 12 years at Mojang building Minecraft into the stratospheric success it is today. Persson hopped
Read moreShort-term rental provider Frontdesk lays off entire staff, on the verge of shutting down
Another proptech startup has run into trouble. Frontdesk, a startup that managed more than 1,000 furnished apartments across the United States, laid off its entire 200-person workforce Tuesday after attempts to raise more capital failed, TechCrunch exclusively learned from sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. The mass layoff
Read moreFormer Anthemis partner soft-launches new fintech-focused venture firm
Ruth Foxe Blader has left her role as partner at Anthemis Group after nearly seven years to start her own venture firm, Foxe Capital, TechCrunch learned exclusively today. Blader is joined by former Anthemis investment associate Kyle Perez. Sophie Winwood is serving as an operating partner. Winwood previously co-founded WVC:E,
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