Category: Enterprise
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Ethereum co-founder’s warning against ‘pro-crypto’ candidates: ‘Are they in it for the right reasons?’
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, issued a warning on Wednesday against choosing a candidate purely based on whether they claim to be “pro-crypto.” In a blog post, Buterin said it’s more important to scrutinize a candidate’s broader policies to ensure they support cryptocurrency’s underlying goals, including internationalism and protection for private communications. “If a…
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TTT models might be the next frontier in generative AI
TTT models, a new architecture, could effectively replace transformers if they scale up as their creators suggest they will. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. After years of dominance by the form of AI known as the transformer, the hunt is on for new architectures. Transformers underpin OpenAI’s video-generating model Sora,…
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How a B2B payments startup won Max, Jack and Sam Altman, JP Morgan as investors
Slope’s founders both have a background in AI, so large language models power the company’s underwriting infrastructure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. It’s not everyday that OpenAI founder Sam Altman teaches your class at Stanford, but that’s the kind of entrepreneurial spirit Lawrence Lin Murata, co-founder and CEO of…
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SpaceX’s vehicle to deorbit the International Space Station is a Dragon on steroids
NASA was looking for proposals that maximized the use of flight heritage because reliability will be key. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The $843 million spacecraft SpaceX is designing to bring down the International Space Station at the end of the decade will be a super-powered version of its…
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Bill Weber out as CEO of Firefly Aerospace
Bill Weber is out as chief executive at Firefly Aerospace, following a nearly two-year stint in the role, the maker of launch vehicles, lunar landers and orbital vehicles announced late Wednesday. While the board initiates a search for a new CEO, board member Peter Schumacher will serve as interim CEO, the company said in a statement…
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10 Best Google Sites Alternatives to Make a Website in 2024
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in AI, Apps, Climate, Cloud Computing, Crypto, Cybersecurity, Enterprise, EV, FinTech, Gadgets, Gaming, SaaS, Software, StartupsGoogle Sites makes website creation simple, with everything stored securely. You can make your site public or private, and control access to it. However, it’s somewhat too basic to build a fully functional website. We look at the best Google Sites alternatives for flexibility and price. The post 10 Best Google Sites Alternatives to Make…
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10 Best WordPress Live Chat Plugins Compared for 2024
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in AI, Apps, Climate, Cloud Computing, Crypto, Cybersecurity, Enterprise, EV, FinTech, Gadgets, Gaming, SaaS, Software, StartupsI spent an entire weekend installing and testing close to 20 different live chat plugins on a WordPress test site to figure out which ones are currently the best on the market. After using each one and comparing their features and pricing, I finally managed to distill it down to the 10 options you see…
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Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund
Menlo Ventures and Anthropic are teaming up on a $100 million fund dubbed “the Anthology Fund” to invest in pre-seed and Series A AI startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Silicon Valley VC firm Menlo Ventures, one of the biggest investors in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, on Wednesday said…
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Shaped raises $8M Series A and launches its self-serve recommendations and search service
Whether it’s an online marketplace, store, or social media platform, virtually every site today uses some kind of recommendation service to personalize its offerings. Shaped, which is announcing an $8 million Series A funding round today, wants to make it easier for businesses of all sizes to combine the data they already have with large…
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The Way app offers a chance to meditate alongside a Zen Master
A new app called The Way is aiming to help people explore the deeper side of meditation through a single, structured path guided by an authorized Zen Master. Founded by uncle-and-nephew duo Henry Shukman and Jack Shukman, The Way wants to help people move beyond modern mindfulness practices offered by popular meditation apps like Headspace…