BattleForLibraries.com online rally had 10,000+ participants in support of the Internet Archive. One day of oral arguments in big publisher’s suits to force Internet Archive to delete 4 million digital books and block libraries nationwide from owning and preserving digital […]
The use of AI image generators dates back to the early 1990s when artists started to use AI algorithms to generate art, music, and visual effects. In 2021, the launch of DALL-E2 , a neural network-based image generation model developed […]
In early January, Amazon announced it was laying off more than 18,000 employees, a bigger number than the retail giant announced back in December when the New York Times reported the company was cutting 10,000 jobs. The news was part […]
The Synthetix Treasury Council, the central body that provides resources for the growth and expansion of the Synthetix protocol, has partnered with DWF Labs to boost liquidity for SNX tokens. The partnership happened just a few days ago and was […]
Quick Brief In November 2022, 400,000 gallons of radioactive water was leaked at Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota The leak was detected by routine groundwater monitoring systems and confirmed on Nov. 22, 2022, but it wasn’t made […]
Less than a week after unveiling a new AI office “Copilot” for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Microsoft and its Nuance Communications subsidiary today announced the launch of Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Express, a clinical notes application for healthcare workers that is […]
Investors are turning to Bitcoin after the realization that the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) just printed $300 billion out of thin air last week to bail out the banks. Bitcoin topped $28,380 on Sunday and jumped 5.19%, adding $1,400 […]
Though naysayers continue to predict the death of Twitter after Elon Musk bought the company last year, the social media platform continues to grow leaps and bounds and attracts millions of new users who felt left before the acquisition. Now, […]
In December 2021, we wrote about Elon Musk after a report that the world’s richest man (until recently), was about to pay over $15,000,000,000 in taxes in 2021, the largest in American history. Fast forward more than a year later, […]
Did you know that about half of all daily newspapers in the country are owned by private equity firms or hedge funds? You’ve probably heard of private equity (PE) and have no idea what it is and why they’re the […]
Online ads are everywhere. It’s almost impossible to find any website without some kind of ad because most online publishers depend on ads to keep the light on. But if you’re like me, I hate annoying ads. So in the early […]
SVB Financial Group, the company that owned the failed Silicon Valley Bank, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to seek buyers for its assets. The news comes just a week after its former unit Silicon Valley Bank was taken over […]
Indian fintech platform PhonePe has raised $200 million in primary capital from its majority owner Walmart even as other startups struggle to raise new funding amid fallout from Silicon Valley Bank. In this funding round, PhonePe has raised $650 million […]
On February 24, we wrote about Stripe after the fintech giant announced it was close to raising $4 billion in fresh funding that will push the company’s valuation to about $55 billion, a massive discount from its record valuation of […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, March 16, 2023. Microsoft unveils new AI office “Copilot” for Microsoft 365 in a race with Google On Tuesday, we wrote about Google after the search […]
It was just two days ago that OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4, the successor to ChatGPT that the company claimed to have better accuracy and the ability to beat 90% of humans on the SAT. Less than 24 hours […]
The past few weeks have seen tech-focused banks offering services to startups and crypto-friendly VCs run into financial difficulties. Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the US, collapsed last week after a run on deposits left the bank […]
While everyone was busy talking about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the NFT market climbed to more than $40 billion in value in March, according to a report from Forbes. The future […]
Climate change is one of the biggest threats of our time. According to some estimates, losses due to weather-related events have increased nearly ten-fold over the last four decades, from a ten-year global average of $12 billion in 1980 to […]
“Microsoft fired their AI safety team?,” that was the question Elon Musk asked on Twitter following a Platformer report that “Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that […]
