Google, Microsoft and others agree to voluntary AI safety action
Seven major American artificial intelligence companies including Google and Microsoft have promised that new AI systems will go through outside testing before they are publicly released, and that they will clearly label AI-generated content, U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday. “These commitments, which the companies will implement immediately, underscore three
Read MoreReining in API sprawl
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Today I’m looking at a recent acquisition that shows the drive toward more resilient APIs. Also this week,
Read MoreWhy testing isn’t just about writing unit tests
When testing is done properly it will reduce defects, and improve the design and quality of the overall codebase.If you mention testing to anyone with a basic understanding of software engineering, they’re likely to think about unit testing. This was certainly true of a podcast I was listening to the
Read MoreDeal Dive: Futureverse is a metaverse company that might actually get it
Startups that look to improve an industry’s outdated infrastructure are definitely welcome in sectors like financial services and healthcare. But why would a company build infrastructure for an industry that seems to have hit its prime and zoomed past it in record time? That was my question when I saw
Read MoreThis week in robotics: Chinese startups net a series of fundraising successes
Before we dive into this week’s biggest news within the robotics space, there’s an announcement of our own to highlight. We’ll be hosting a number of robotics industry experts at our very first Hardware Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. The stage kicks off on day three of Disrupt on September
Read MoreThis week in AI: Companies voluntarily submit to AI guidelines — for now
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, we
Read MoreRed Hat Enterprise Linux and the open source community in conflict. My interview with Greg Kurtzner, founder of Rocky Linux (and a special bonus interview – see below)
The announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code would only be available through Red Hat’s customer portal might not seem like news. But the explosion that it caused reverberated through the open source community in the past week. I’ve covered this on a couple of our daily news podcasts
Read MoreTech warriors in the battle for Israel’s democracy
Erel Margalit Contributor Share on Twitter Erel Margalit is an Israeli high-tech investor, social entrepreneur, and former Knesset member. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based VC firm Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Margalit Startup City, the international collection of thematic socioeconomic hubs. Israel is a country that
Read MoreMental Friction: Code’s Silent Killer
Do you recognize mental friction when you see it? Try reading this sentence out loud, saying the color of the word instead of what’s…Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreConfirmed: Code Coverage Is a Useless Management Metric
Discover the simple proof that dismantles the code coverage metricContinue reading on Better Programming »
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