As a new AI-driven coding assistant is launched, the battle for AI-mindshare moves to developers
With the news that Microsoft’s Copilot is getting OpenAI’s latest models and a new code interpreter, it’s clear the battle over the future of AI is increasingly being fought at the developer and engineering level. If you can get developers hooked on “your” AI Copilot, then you will be able
Read moreAvail rolls out its AI summarization tool to help Hollywood execs keep up with script coverage
Avail is tackling one of the many time-consuming tasks in film and TV development: script coverage. The new ChatGPT-powered summarization tool is designed to summarize scripts and books within minutes, producing detailed summaries, loglines, synopses, character breakdowns and tonal assessments. Avail also built a Q&A assistant to help production companies
Read moreWhy in-house platforms can undermine your business strategy
While the allure of absolute control is compelling, technical leaders must critically reassess its long-term viability. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreWhy not reuse passwords?
Perhaps you’ve heard that you should not reuse passwords but don’t understand why. After all, you have a really good password, one that nobody would ever guess, so why not use it everywhere? Your password is not as good as you think First of all, people who think they have
Read moreThe world’s sneakiest substitution
Something that seems like an isolated trick may turn out to be much more important. This is the case with a change of variables discovered by Karl Weierstrass. Every calculus student learns a handful of standard techniques: u-substitutions, partial fractions, integration by parts, and trig substitutions. Then there is one
Read moreEx-Google, Coursera employees start Lutra AI to make AI workflows easier to build
The young startup, started in April, creates AI workflows from natural language so no technical experience is needed. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHow we’re enriching the Teams essentials to make collaboration easier
In spite of all of the AI innovation that’s happened over the last year, we still believe that a human and community-centered approach to knowledge management is the best way for organizations to unlock the benefits of AI.
Read moreEU ‘final’ talks to fix AI rules to run into second day — but deal on foundational models is on the table
As European Union lawmakers clock up 20+ hours of negotiating time in a marathon attempt to reach agreement on how to regulate artificial intelligence a preliminary accord on how to handle one sticky element — rules for foundational models/general purpose AIs (GPAIs) — has been agreed, according to a leaked
Read moreWhy Congruent turned down over $300M from LPs for its third climate tech fund
Investors thought the firm's initial target of $200 million was far too modest, and instead offered $600 million, a threefold oversubscription. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreOpal Security, which helps companies manage access and identities, raises $22M
VC investment trends in the cybersecurity market suggest a sector in decline — at least within the context of recent months. According to Crunchbase, cybersecurity deal count fell during Q3 to 153 deals from 181 in Q2. In a more detailed report, Crunchbase suggests that, with Q3 cybersecurity venture funding
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