VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create, not exploit
Hollywood may be embroiled in ongoing labor disputes that involve AI, but the technology infiltrated film and TV long, long ago. At SIGGRAPH in LA, algorithmic and generative tools were on display in countless talks and announcements. We may not know where the likes of GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion fit
Read moreBuilding Production-Ready LLM Apps With LlamaIndex: Recursive Document Agents for Dynamic Retrieval
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Read moreWhatsApp rolls out support for HD video
Last week, WhatsApp announced it was adding support for HD photos, allowing the messaging app users the option to preserve the high-def resolution of the phones they wanted to share with friends and family. At the time, the company said support for HD videos was coming soon. Today, the company
Read moreThe 6 most important things to know about SaaS+ product architecture
Justin Kaufenberg Contributor Share on Twitter Justin Kaufenberg is the managing director at Rally Ventures and co-founder and former CEO of SportsEngine. Greg Blasko Contributor Share on Twitter Greg Blasko is co-founder of Monoline and co-founder and former CTO of SportsEngine. Whether you want to build a SaaS+ company from
Read moreTesla investors might get payout from SEC settlement
Tesla shareholders who claimed to face financial losses after CEO Elon Musk tweeted about taking the company private might be on the verge of receiving compensation from a $42.3 million fund established as part of Musk’s federal securities fraud settlement. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission said 3,350 eligible
Read moreOnlyFans’ profitability proves the creator economy boom was real enough
Like many sectors, creator-focused startups had an easy time of attracting funding in 2020 and 2021. But venture capital investment into this category slowed down significantly starting in the second half of 2022: going from 42 rounds worth $336 million in Q2 2022, to only 19 rounds worth $110.2 million
Read morePitch Deck Teardown: BusRight’s $7M Series A deck
As soon as I saw the cover slide for BusRight, I knew I was looking at something really interesting. BusRight is a school-bus management platform that aims to improve efficiency and safety by, among other things, allowing caregivers to track bus locations. It also offers route-mapping and real-time GPS. Running
Read moreHow to Make Process Improvement Effective
Avoiding bureaucracyMaze. Image generated by MidJourneyProcess improvement is one of the main tools for Engineering Managers (EM) to manage their team. Delivering commercial software involves overlapping multiple systems, and acting on them effectively improves the team’s environment and results.However, processes can also easily hinder effectiveness. Too much focus on it can
Read moreMOVEit, the biggest hack of the year, by the numbers
The mass-exploitation of MOVEit Transfer software has rapidly cemented itself as the largest hack of the year so far. While the full impact of the attack will likely remain untold for months to come, there are now more than 1,000 known victims of the MOVEit breach, according to cybersecurity company
Read morePolestar 4 to feature Mobileye’s hands-off, eyes-off driving tech
Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar wants to bring Mobileye’s Chauffeur, a hands-off, eyes-off autonomous driving technology to its Polestar 4 electric SUV coupe. The Polestar 4, which launched Friday in China and will hit global markets in 2024, comes standard with Mobileye’s SuperVision advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). Polestar plans
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