[[{“value”:” A number of startups are racing to make vehicle inspections faster, easier, and cheaper. Self Inspection, a startup based in San Diego, thinks it has them all beat with its AI-powered service — and now it has convinced outside investors. Self Inspection, founded in 2021, is set to announce Thursday it’s raised $3 million in […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Bpifrance will invest $10B in the French AI ecosystem by 2029
[[{“value”:” France’s public investment bank announced that it plans to invest as much as €10 billion (around $10.3 billion at current exchange rates) in the artificial intelligence ecosystem in France. This announcement comes a few days before heads of state and global tech leaders gather for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. Bpifrance has been […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Amazon deletes ‘inclusion and diversity’ language in latest filing
[[{“value”:” Amazon is the latest tech company to remove references to “inclusion and diversity” from its 10-K report. The filing has removed reference to diversity and inclusion as it pertains to the workplace. In its 2023 10-K form, the company had a sentence that read “As we strive to be Earth’s best employer, we focus on investment and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
VC Mike Ghaffary is looking for the job-creating AI startup that doesn’t yet exist
[[{“value”:” Ghaffary is looking to fund startups using AI to create high-paying jobs, rather than replace them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections
[[{“value”:” Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to support the study of systemic risks — such as to elections and other democratic processes. But the Elon Musk-owned company formerly known as Twitter has been blocking civil society […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Laurene Powell Jobs joins Amazon in backing nuclear startup X-Energy in $700M round
[[{“value”:” X-Energy is one of many nuclear startups to have benefitted from the AI-driven data center boom. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Report: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
[[{“value”:” Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of “at least” $20 billion, according to Reuters. It’s not clear how much Safe Superintelligence — which has yet to generate any revenue — is looking to secure, but it could be substantial. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
HPE begins notifying data breach victims after Russian government hack
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PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development
[[{“value”:” The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to serve useful output. So think tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, which present the user with a blank field […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Pinterest lists DEI attacks as possible business risk in latest filing
[[{“value”:” Pinterest listed the latest attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a possible business risk in its latest 10-K filing. The company wrote in its filing to investors that if its efforts around DEI “are perceived as insufficient or overdone,” then it “may not be able to attract and retain talent” and that the company […] © 2024 TechCrunch….