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Read moreFeds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today
A year to the day after it was proposed, the National AI Research Resource is coming online — at least in pilot form — as a coalition of U.S. agencies and private partners start to apply billions in federal funding towards public-access tools for aspiring AI scientists and engineers. NAIRR
Read moreCourt rules in favor of a web scraper, Bright Data, which Meta had used and then sued
Meta has lost a claim in its legal battle with an Israeli tech firm, Bright Data, which it sued last year for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram via the web. The tech giant, which has a long history of suing data scraping businesses, claimed that Bright Data’s data harvesting
Read moreInsights: How can South African SMEs Thrive in Retail
Small businesses in the retail sector, employing 50-60% of South Africa’s workforce and contributing approximately 34% to GDP growth, face significant pressure to navigate challenges and recover swiftly from disruptions. Despite political and economic instability, inflation, and issues like load shedding, crime, and civil unrest, SMEs in the retail sector
Read moreArcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI
While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to use closed-source AI APIs due to the perceived lack of transparency — but also resisted open source models over security concerns. “We came to realize that
Read moreElo Life Systems grabs another $20.5M to get its monk fruit sweetener to market
Elo Life is focused on a number of technologies from developing plant-based sweeteners to crop protection. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle announces new AI-powered features for education
Google announced a bunch of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. AI-powered features Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom assignment. The
Read moreHUAWEI’s MateBook D 16 Pioneers Connectivity
Today’s workspaces transcend traditional cubicles, adapting to the modern professional’s dynamic lifestyle. Enter the HUAWEI MateBook D 16, a portable powerhouse that complements the contemporary work environment. Weighing a mere 1.68kg and measuring a slim 17mm, this sleek laptop seamlessly blends portability with robust performance, making it the ideal companion
Read moreEU wants to upgrade its supercomputers to support generative AI startups
European Union lawmakers scrambling for the bloc to be a contender in the generative AI race are presenting a package of support measures aimed at charging up homegrown AI startups and scale ups. Artificial intelligence technologies — and especially generative AI models which are trained on very large data-sets and
Read moreSpotify teases in-app purchases for EU iPhone users ahead of incoming DMA regulation
Spotify is gearing up to test Apple’s response to new European regulations designed to prevent so-called digital “gatekeepers” from engaging in anticompetitive practices. The music-streaming giant has shared a bunch of mockups to illustrate what its iPhone and iPad app could soon look like, including information about pricing, subscription offers
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