Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at https://x.ai/. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation. “The goal of xAI is
Read More10 Things to Consider Before Transitioning to a Remote Working Model
Remote working is quickly becoming more popular and feasible in recent years. With rapid advances in technology and the changing expectations of employees and employers. However, transitioning to a remote working model is not a simple decision that can be made overnight. Here are a few factors to consider before
Read MoreA Solution to Safeguarding Information Between Multiple Sites
The ever-expanding range of technologies competing to keep business information safe can be overwhelming for organisations striving to stay ahead. Companies of all sizes are rapidly deploying new technologies, including cloud-print-scan and managed endpoint security solutions, to safeguard information between multiple sites or remote workers. Business owners and managers are
Read MoreCooling inflation in the US brings slight relief to tech valuations
New U.S. inflation data is augmenting tech stocks listed on American exchanges, helping shares of cloud companies reach prices they haven’t been close to for nearly a year. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. The new
Read MoreAnnouncing the Sustainability Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Keeping apace of the latest trends and innovation in climate tech and sustainability — an area that touches every industry and city — is nearly impossible. It’s why we created the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 and invited the best and brightest minds to share their insights. The dedicated
Read MoreClibrain joins the generative AI race with Lince, an LLM optimized for Spanish
There is a long list of Large Language Models (LLMs) out in the wild already, from OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Google’s PaLM2 to Meta’s LLaMA, to name three of the more high profile examples. Differentiation between LLMs is determined by factors including the core architecture of the model, training data used,
Read MoreChinese hackers breached US government emails via Microsoft Cloud exploit
Around 25 organizations and government agencies are believed to be affected by the breach. | Illustration: Beatrice Sala In two blog posts published on Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed that a China-based hacking group — which the company refers to as “Storm-0558” — is intent on “gaining access to email systems for
Read MoreHow to mark a language in HTML
In HTML you can mark the language of a piece of text by putting it inside span tags and setting the lang attribute to a two-letter abbreviation. For example, <span lang="fr">Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé !<span> indicates that the first two lines of the
Read MoreMicrosoft warns Office admins to block exploitation of zero-day hole
IT administrators with Microsoft Office in their environments are being urged to take action after the discovery of a previously unknown vulnerability being leveraged by a Russian-based cyber-criminal group. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-36884, described as an HTML remote code execution vulnerability involving specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents, wasn’t patched yesterday in the
Read MoreTumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says
If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: making a social media company profitable is hard! After rolling out some unpopular features, Tumblr is now trying to “build in public” and be more transparent about the business behind
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