How to write high-performance SQL for your Postgres database
Ben and Ryan talk with Lukas Fittl, founder and CEO of pganalyze, which provides in-depth Postgres database monitoring and optimization. They talk about why Lukas considers himself a founder-CEO by title but engineer by trade, what’s important to understand about SQL, and the role of AI in database optimization.
Read moreispace unveils new lunar lander that will fly to the moon in 2026
Japanese space company ispace has invested over $40 million in its new U.S. subsidiary to-date, as it looks to take advantage of growing investment from NASA and the Pentagon in technologies for the moon. The level of investment is a mark of ispace’s “strong commitment to the U.S. market,” CEO
Read moreHonda forms largest EV partner network in the US despite not yet selling an EV in the country
Honda is touting today that drivers of its EVs will soon have access to the most amount of charging locations in America. This is thanks to just-announced agreements with EVgo and Electrify America, two of the largest EV charging networks in the States. Honda previously signed on with the NACS
Read moreYour website can now opt out of training Google’s Bard and future AIs
Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone’s knowledge or consent. Now you have a choice whether to allow your web content to be used by Google as material to feed its Bard AI and any future models it
Read moreAsk Sophie: What are your top immigration tips from TechCrunch Disrupt 2023?
I wasn’t able to make it to TechCrunch Disrupt this year. What were your main immigration takeaways for founders and startups?
Read moreMixin hacked for $200M, Worldcoin eyes greater expansion and Haun Ventures’ execs talk crypto regulation
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. We’re gearing up for the highly anticipated Sam Bankman-Fried trial. As for other news, it’s been an interesting and somewhat slower week for the crypto community.
Read moreMedium hints at a nascent media coalition to block AI crawlers
Web publishing platform Medium has announced that it will block OpenAI’s GPTBot, an agent that scrapes web pages for content used to train the company’s AI models. But the real news may be that a group of platforms may soon form a unified front against what many consider an exploitation
Read moreWorldcoin doubles down on emerging markets amid wider criticism
Naysayers reacted to the hype around Worldcoin with almost the same level of intensity as its backers, but the company is still moving forward with its big plans.
Read morePilot is a social travel hub that uses AI to help you plan, book and share trips
Pilot, a Vancouver-based startup, wants to become “the hub of global travel experience” and connect people via travel.
Read moreSix imperatives for building AI-first companies
The impact of AI-first companies will be greater, financial returns superior, and moats more enduring than their AI-enabled counterparts.
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