AI development conference sparks talks of startup extinction
AI experts and investors gathered at the Axios’ AI+ Summit this week to discuss the future of the industry, with some predicting a “startup mass extinction event” due to the rapid advancements in AI technology. Investors at Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, however, expressed optimism, stating that they are still actively investing in AI startups, […]
AI friends and lovers can teach us what it means to be human
Rita Popova, the chief product officer of digital companion companies Replika and Blush, believes that AI friends and lovers can teach us what it means to be human. At the Axios AI+ Summit in San Francisco, Popova explained how Replika, an AI companion service, evolved into Blush, an AI-powered dating simulation, and is now transforming […]
AI domain names prices on the rise
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest technologies in the world right now, and that’s having a ripple effect on the domain name market. Tech start-ups that want to use an AI-related domain name are paying top dollar to secure them. One example is Ian Leaman, who recently paid $12,000 for the domain name […]
Gartner predicts CIOs to lose control of IT environments
Gartner predicts that 46% of EMEA CIOs will move to a world where techies are no longer the sole proprietor of a company’s digital assets. This is due to the rise of low-code, no-code, and generative AI services, which have made it possible for anyone to create and deploy digital solutions without the need for […]
Startup launches AI platform to slash building energy costs
A startup backed by Nvidia and collaborating with Apple has launched a new AI platform that it claims can cut building energy costs by one-third. The company, PassiveLogic, says its “generative autonomy” systems can manage building infrastructure from a few hundred sensors and controls for small buildings to 1 million for large commercial towers. The […]
Solar to power over 30 million European homes
A study from researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has found that rooftop solar panels could provide all the energy needs for more than 30 million homes in Europe. The research was detailed in a study, titled ‘Two million European single-family homes could abandon the grid by 2050’, published in the scientific […]
New laws seek to reduce e-waste, improve product quality
New consumer rights laws are being introduced in the U.S. and Europe to give consumers more power to repair their devices. This is in response to a growing trend of manufacturers making it difficult or impossible for consumers to repair their own devices, which is leading to increased e-waste and frustration among consumers. One of […]
Databricks switches to AMD GPUs to boost LLM training
Databricks is switching to AMD GPUs to boost its large language model (LLM) training capabilities. In a collaboration last year, Databricks joined forces with AMD to employ their 3rd Gen EPYC Instance processors. Subsequently, their acquisition of MosaicML, a company utilizing AMD MI250 GPUs for AI model training, further solidified their commitment to AMD’s capabilities. […]
Colorado startup solves smartphone GPS positioning issue
Colorado-based startup Zephr has claimed to have solved smartphone GPS positioning problems with a networked approach that achieves sub-60cm accuracy. Zephr’s software development kit (SDK) can be integrated into apps to turn smartphones into a network of GPS base stations. Base stations are high-accuracy, stationary GPS receivers used to broadcast location correction to roving GPS […]
New York Times tech workers protest return-to-work policy
Over 600 tech workers at The New York Times staged a walkout to protest the company’s return-to-office policy. The dispute stems from the fact that The Times’ return-to-office policies were introduced prior to the recognition of the Tech Guild. To voice their grievances, both the New York Times Guild, which represents the majority of the […]
