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NC STEM e-Update (March 6, 2025)
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Anthropic submits AI policy recommendations to the White House
[[{“value”:” A day after quietly removing Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, Anthropic submitted recommendations to the White House for a national AI policy that the company says “better prepare[s] America to capture the economic benefits” of AI. The company’s suggestions include preserving the AI Safety Institute established under the Biden Administration, directing NIST to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation
[[{“value”:” As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in fulfilling that effort is announcing a significant round of funding to expand. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool
[[{“value”:” Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether it’ll launch […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts
[[{“value”:” AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Linguistic diversity in the classroom: Embracing multilingual perspectives and pedagogies
[[{“value”:” Linguistic diversity in the classroom: Embracing multilingual perspectives and pedagogies Published: Despite the cultural and linguistic diversity present in classrooms across various parts of the world, many education systems still follow monolingual ideologies. Dr Sandra Zappa-Hollman, an applied linguist at the University of British Columbia in Canada, is investigating how teachers view multilingual students in their classrooms and how…
UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites
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A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
[[{“value”:” With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors
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