Get a clue, says panel about generative AI: it’s being “deployed as surveillance devices”
Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who just ended his two-month world tour, and Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque. Still, one of the most compelling conversations happened later in the afternoon, in
Read moreLithuania’s capital Vilnius to get ‘Europe’s largest tech campus,’ costing €100M
Lithuania is vying to become one of the major European tech hubs, bolstered by a growing number of so-called “unicorn” startups and governmental efforts to attract a high-profile accelerator to the country. At the same time, a new €100 million private initiative announced today is setting out to create what
Read moreMeta confirms it will end news availability for Canadians as Bill C-18 passes
Meta said in a statement today that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram prior to the Online News Act taking effect. The company said, “We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers
Read moreHPE expands its partner ecosystem, adds new cloud services at Discover
Aside from its entry into the artificial intelligence AI cloud market (see link below) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week made a number of additional announcements at HPE Discover 2023 revolving around its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform, all designed, it said, to reduce complexities and improve productivity. They included the
Read moreRocket Lab doubles down on marine booster recovery with next Electron launch
Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission will include another marine recovery attempt of the rocket’s booster, the latest step by the company to advance its reusability program. The mission, called “Baby Come Back,” will take off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The launch window opens
Read moreContinuum Space Systems wants to make space mission management easy
Space mission management is a complicated beast, too often characterized by complex workflows and information siloes that cost organizations time and money. Continuum Space Systems, a two-year-old startup based in Pasadena, is looking to change that with its unified platform to support the entire life cycle of a space mission.
Read moreMentally approximating factorials
Suppose you’d like to have a very rough idea how large n! is for, say, n less than 100. If you’re familiar with such things, your Pavlovian response to “factorial” and “approximation” is Stirling’s approximation. Although Stirling’s approximation is extremely useful—I probably use it every few weeks—it is not conducive
Read moreTikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative
TikTok has confirmed that it’s testing a new in-app “Trendy Beat” shopping section where it is offering products for sale that are shipped and sold by a subsidiary of its parent company, ByteDance. The feature, which was first reported on by the Financial Times, is currently being tested in the
Read moreWhy Europe and Israel’s unicorns are producing the next generation of tech founders
Harry Nelis Contributor Share on Twitter Harry Nelis is a partner at Accel, a global venture firm that has partnered with companies from inception through all phases of private company growth for the last 40 years. More posts by this contributor To become a public company, start operating like one
Read moreKaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport’s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC
Today, Kaitlyn Glancy, who has spent more than eight years with the logistics company Flexport — the last four of them as the outfit’s vice president of North America — is announcing that she has joined the world of VC as the newest partner at the venture firm Eclipse. On
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