Monthly Archives: May 2023

Higher interest rates are fostering a fintech comeback story

While rapidly rising interest rates in the United States have caused more than a few financial institutions to topple, a group of well-known fintech companies are posting signs of a comeback. Both Coinbase and Robinhood reported better-than-anticipated revenue in the … Continue reading

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Revolut’s CFO leaves the digital bank after two years, citing personal reasons

Revolut’s Chief Financial Officer Mikko Salovaara is leaving the digital bank after two years, citing personal reasons.

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CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com steps down after just one year as company swings to profit

JD.com CEO Xu Lei will be replaced by Sandy Ran Xu, the current chief financial officer of the Chinese e-commerce giant.

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AudiencePlus wants to help every company run its own media platform

It used to be that having a corporate blog and some paid content was the gist of your marketing department’s content efforts, and that was enough. But as larger companies like Salesforce and HubSpot have launched their own full-blown media … Continue reading

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Making foundation models accessible: The battle between closed and open source AI

Jae Lee Contributor Share on Twitter Jae Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Twelve Labs, a platform that gives businesses and developers access to multimodal video understanding. The massive explosion of generative AI models for text and image has … Continue reading

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Why Airbus and others are betting on hydrogen-powered planes instead of electric planes

Aircraft are responsible for 2.5% of global CO2 emissions and the problem is growing. Hydrogen could be a solution, drawing interest from Airbus and startups.

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IBM launches watsonx studio to make deploying generative AI easier

The watsonx platform announcement also marks IBM’s plan to add generative AI to other services, incorporating code writing and NASA weather data. The post IBM launches watsonx studio to make deploying generative AI easier appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Meta content review partner Sama told by court to pay moderators

Meta’s content moderation partner in Africa Sama was earlier today compelled by a Kenyan court to pay April salaries to a section of moderators it had left out. The direction comes days after moderators picketed at Sama headquarters in Kenya … Continue reading

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Writer introduces product that could help reduce hallucinated content in its LLMs

As companies explore generative AI more deeply, one of the more confounding issues is the hallucination problem, where if the model doesn’t know the answer, it simply makes one up, whether it makes sense or not. To work in business, … Continue reading

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Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet

Growing fleets, fancier sensors, and tighter budgets are forcing autonomous vehicle developers to get pickier about what stays on their servers.

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