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- TechCrunch
Rubrik’s IPO filing reveals an AI governance committee. Get used to it.
Tucked into Rubrik's IPO filing this week — between the parts about employee count and cost statements — was a nugget that reveals how the data management company is thinking about generative AI and the risks that accompany the new tech: Rubrik has quietly set up a governance committee to oversee how artificial intelligence is implemented in its business. According to the Form S-1, the new AI governance committee includes managers from Rubrik's engineering, product, legal and information security teams. Together, the teams will evaluate the potential legal, security and business risks of using generative AI tools and ponder "steps that can be taken to mitigate any such risks," the filing reads.
- Yahoo Finance
AI investments are showing signs of a payoff, but the price is steep
Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft announced they are spending billions to build out their AI capabilities. It'll take time for it to pay off.
- TechCrunch
Snapchat's 'My AI' chatbot can now set in-app reminders and countdowns
Snapchat is launching the ability for users to set in-app reminders with the help of its My AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. The social network is also rolling out editable chats, AI-powered custom Bitmoji looks, map reactions, emoji reactions, and more. With the new AI reminders feature, Snapchat is hoping users will use its app instead of their device's default clock app when setting countdowns or reminders.
- TechCrunch
Microsoft taps Sanctuary AI for general-purpose robot research
Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. Today, the tech giant announced a collaboration with Figure competitor Sanctuary AI, best known for its humanoid robot, Phoenix. The Sanctuary partnership really gets to the heart of Microsoft’s interest in the category: artificial general intelligence.
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Anthropic launches a new premium plan aimed at businesses
Anthropic, one of the world's best-funded generative AI startups with $7.6 billion in the bank, is launching a new paid plan aimed at enterprises, including those in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance and legal. Called Team, the plan gives customers higher-priority access to Anthropic's Claude 3 family of generative AI models plus additional admin and user management controls. "Anthropic introduced the Team plan now in response to growing demand from enterprise customers who want to deploy Claude's advanced AI capabilities across their organizations," Scott White, product lead at Anthropic, told TechCrunch.
- Engadget
Block reportedly greenlit transactions involving terrorist groups and sanctioned nations
Block appears to be squarely in the government’s sights. Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York are reportedly probing extensive compliance lapses at the parent company of Square and Cash App.
- Yahoo Life Shopping
A coffee-brewing straw? This portable device makes a 'buzz'-worthy Mother's Day gift, and it's down to $25
Mom can take the pocket-sized filter camping or use it at home when she wants a single cup, stat.
- Yahoo Life
Higher proportions of Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women live in states with abortion restrictions than in states without, new study finds
Experts say that abortion bans in states more densely populated by women of color will exacerbate health disparities.
- Autoblog
6 thoughts about the 2024 Lexus TX 350 FWD
A review of the 2024 Lexus TX 350. We examine the tech, design and value of the three-row crossover SUV Lexus TX 350 and compare it to the Toyota Grand Highlander and other SUVs.
- Yahoo Personal Finance
CD rates today, May 1, 2024 (up to 5.15% APY)
Looking for the best CD rates available today? Here’s a look at where to find the highest rates and whether now is a good time to invest in a CD.
- Engadget
Microsoft and OpenAI sued yet again by Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News
A group of publications that include the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the Orlando Sentinel are accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of stealing their copyrighted content to train generative AI products.
- TechCrunch
Sam's Club's AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores
Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts, but Walmart-owned Sam's Club says it's turning to AI to speed up its own exit technology. Instead of requiring store staff to check members' purchases against their receipts when leaving the store, Sam's Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked. The technology, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, has now been deployed at over 120 clubs across the U.S., which is 20% of the total number of Sam's Club locations.
- TechCrunch
Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses
Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a long list of organizations leaning into AI chatbots as an assistive medium. Yelp said that the chatbot uses OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) along with its own data to ask users about their problems and connect them with relevant professionals for the job.
- TechCrunch
Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions
Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon's AI-powered assistive coding tool. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon's Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced Q Business. Available through AWS, Q Developer helps with some of the tasks developers do in the course of their daily work, like debugging and upgrading apps, troubleshooting and performing security scans -- much like CodeWhisperer did.
- TechCrunch
How European disability tech startups are leveraging AI
Making life better for people with disabilities is a laudable goal, but accessibility tech hasn't traditionally been popular among VCs. In 2022, disability tech companies attracted around $4 billion in early-stage investments, which was a fraction of fintech’s intake, for example. One reason is that disability tech startups are often considered too niche to attain business viability -- at least on the scale that venture capital demands.
- Yahoo Sports
Cowboys top list of teams facing critical unfinished business after NFL Draft
The franchise could have a new head coach and starting QB in 2025. Few teams find themselves in that position and don’t slip into a rebuild. All of which makes it important that Dallas gets something done in the next few months.
- Yahoo Sports
Appalachian State football player Jack Murphy dies
Murphy was an all-conference offensive tackle in his first season at Appalachian State.
- TechCrunch
SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity. "We've witnessed an evolving business climate that brought along with it an unprecedented need for improved security processes," Arnon told TechCrunch. Yang and Arnon decided to turn this interest into something more, so they started SafeBase, which was accepted into Y Combinator's accelerator program during the pandemic.
- Yahoo Life
Are you more likely to experience loneliness in early, middle or older adulthood? Here's what a new study says.
What new research has found about loneliness — and what risk factors could make you more likely to experience it.
- TechCrunch
Devastated by his videos being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea
Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Purcell then looked into services that could help him take the videos down, but most were aimed at large enterprises rather than creators. Resolved to come up with a solution to help prevent such violations, Purcell roped in his co-founder Jonny Smyth (now CTO of the startup) to build Ceartas in 2021.