Tag: startup
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The Register: US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/30/google_ceo_tank_ai_drones/ Source: The Register Title: US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt Feedly Summary: And what do you know, Google’s former CEO just so happens to have a commercial solution Former Google chief Eric Schmidt thinks the US Army should expunge “useless" tanks and replace them with AI-powered drones…
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Hacker News: EU AI Act is much more insane than you think
Source URL: https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-strange-kafka-world-of-the-eu Source: Hacker News Title: EU AI Act is much more insane than you think Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of the EU AI Act, particularly regarding the stringent regulations imposed on high-risk AI systems, including commercial implications for startups and systemic risks related…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: W̶e̶e̶k̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ Monthnotes for October
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/30/monthnotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: W̶e̶e̶k̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ Monthnotes for October Feedly Summary: I try to publish weeknotes at least once every two weeks. It’s been four since the last entry, so I guess this one counts as monthnotes instead. In my defense, the reason I’ve fallen behind on weeknotes is that I’ve been…
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The Register: Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/linus_torvalds_ai_hype/ Source: The Register Title: Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype Feedly Summary: Linux kernel creator says let’s see which workloads use GenAI in five years Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, thinks the majority of marketing circulated by the industry on Generative AI is simply fluff with no real…
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Hacker News: VC Built an Empire in Cybersecurity, Then Came the Conflicts of Interest
Source URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-built-a-cybersecurity-unicorn-machine-then-came-his-conflict-of-interest-mess/ Source: Hacker News Title: VC Built an Empire in Cybersecurity, Then Came the Conflicts of Interest Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the ethical implications of a profit-sharing program within Cyberstarts, a venture capital firm that has successfully launched high-value security startups. It highlights potential conflicts…
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The Register: Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/five_eyes_secure_innovation_campaign/ Source: The Register Title: Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again Feedly Summary: Only took ’em a year to dish up some scary travel advice, and a Secure Innovation … Placemat? Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes nations have delivered on a promise to offer tech startups…
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The Register: Perplexity AI decries News Corp’s ‘simply false’ data scraping claims
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/25/perplexity_news_corp_data/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity AI decries News Corp’s ‘simply false’ data scraping claims Feedly Summary: ‘They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations’ Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI has hit back at a lawsuit claiming that it’s unfairly harvesting data from Dow Jones &…
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The Register: Anthropic’s latest Claude model can interact with computers – what could go wrong?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/anthropic_claude_model_can_use_computers/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic’s latest Claude model can interact with computers – what could go wrong? Feedly Summary: For starters, it could launch a prompt injection attack on itself… The latest version of AI startup Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model can use computers – and the developer makes it sound like…
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Wired: Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/liquid-ai-redesigning-neural-network/ Source: Wired Title: Liquid AI Is Redesigning the Neural Network Feedly Summary: Inspired by microscopic worms, Liquid AI’s founders developed a more adaptive, less energy-hungry kind of neural network. Now the MIT spin-off is revealing several new ultraefficient models. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Liquid AI, a startup emerging from MIT,…
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Cloud Blog: Spanner and PostgreSQL at Prefab: Flexible, reliable, and cost-effective at any size
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-prefab-scales-with-spanners-postrgesql-interface/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner and PostgreSQL at Prefab: Flexible, reliable, and cost-effective at any size Feedly Summary: TL;DR: We use Spanner’s PostgreSQL interface at Prefab, and we’ve had a good time. It’s easy to set up, easy to use, and — surprisingly — less expensive than other databases we’ve tried for…