Amazon wants to turn small shops into delivery partners
According to a new report from Axios, Amazon wants to partner with small businesses, such as bodegas and IT shops, so that they can become delivery partners. The company pays a small fee to small retailers for each package they deliver. With this program, Amazon wants to expand its last-mile
Read moreAs the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Finance automation company Ramp has acquired Cohere.io, a startup that built an AI-powered customer support tool, the companies told TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in 2020, New York-based Cohere.io (not to be confused with Cohere, another AI startup that recently raised capital)
Read moreAWS invests $100 million in new Generative AI Innovation Center
Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it is investing US$100 million in a program it calls the Generative AI Innovation Center that will connect AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) experts with customers to help them build and deploy generative AI products and services. Chief executive
Read moreGlean operational advice from Airbnb and Instacart at TC Disrupt 2023’s Builders Stage
What does it take to turn an unknown startup into a household name? The ability to scale. It’s the Holy Grail that every early-stage startup founder chases. Scaling internal operations may lack the glamor of funding rounds and founder profiles, but it’s essential heavy lifting for startup success. Founders looking
Read moreThe hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements
With all the articles about just how amazing all the developments in AI have been, there’s plenty of hand wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. They imagine all the business execs and product researchers will bypass
Read moreEnergy producer Suncor admits ‘cyber security incident’
A major Canadian energy producer and owner of the Petro-Can gas station network has acknowledged suffering an undefined cyber attack. In a brief news release late Sunday, Suncor Engery said it “has experienced a cyber security incident. The company is taking measures and working with third-party experts to investigate and
Read moreDatabricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B
Investors aren’t the only ones who want to get their hands on hot tech companies in the field of AI: it’s also likely to spur a big wave of M&A, too: today, Databricks announced that it would pay $1.3 billion to acquire MosaicML, an open-source startup with neural networks expertise
Read moreCyber Security Today, June 26, 2023 – The latest data breaches, and a Twitter hacker sentenced to five years
The latest data breaches, a Twitter hacker sentenced to five years, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday, June 26th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Lutheran Services of Illinois, a social service provider for the state, is
Read moreSnapCalorie taps AI to estimate the caloric content of food from photos
While working at Google, Wade Norris wanted to create a project that could positively impact people’s lives. He co-founded Google Lens, Google’s computer vision-powered app that brings up information related to the objects it identifies. But it didn’t quite scratch the itch. So several years ago, Norris teamed up with
Read moreLeadership Lessons: An Amazing One Year After Publishing Digital Trailblazer
As I board the plane from San Francisco to Newark, I make a stark realization. Wow, it’s been a year since I received my author’s copies of Digital Trailblazer and eighteen months since I submitted the manuscript to Wiley. Writing, publishing, and marketing a book isn’t a journey – it’s
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