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AWS brings prompt routing and caching to its Bedrock LLM service

As businesses move from trying out generative AI in limited prototypes to putting them into production, they are becoming increasingly price conscious. Using large language models isn’t cheap, after all. One way to reduce cost is to go back to … Continue reading

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$132 – $149K, here’s what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data

Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few employees? Kruze Consulting, a CPA firm that specializes in venture-backed startups, recently analyzed average salary ranges for … Continue reading

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AWS makes its SageMaker HyperPod AI platform more efficient for training LLMs

At last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon’s cloud computing unit launched SageMaker HyperPod, a platform for building foundation models. It’s no surprise then that at this year’s re:Invent, the company is announcing a number of updates to the platform, with … Continue reading

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AWS brings third-party apps to its SageMaker AI platform

SageMaker has long been AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training and deploying machine learning and generative AI models. Over time, however, an ecosystem of applications has sprung up around AI and ML models for performing tasks like managing experiments, … Continue reading

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TikTok adds new ways for creators to raise money for charities

TikTok is rolling out new ways for creators to raise money for charities and causes they’re passionate about. The company is partnering with Goodstack, a fintech company that manages charitable donations, to enable creators to support organizations from its validated … Continue reading

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DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games

DeepMind, Google’s AI research org, has unveiled a model that can generate an “endless” variety of playable 3D worlds. Called Genie 2, the model — the successor to DeepMind’s Genie, which was released earlier this year — can generate an … Continue reading

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Ransomware hackers target NHS hospitals with new cyberattacks

Two NHS trusts in England have been hacked in recent weeks, the latest attacks to hit the national health service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Revel to install 24 EV fast chargers at JFK airport

Revel is adding to its electric vehicle charging empire in New York City. The startup said on Wednesday that it has broken ground on the installation of 24 EV fast chargers at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The installation doubles … Continue reading

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Tuskira unifies and optimizes disparate cybersecurity tools

Cyberattacks are on the rise, and the victims are high-profile. According to a KPMG survey, close to half of companies with $1 billion or more in annual revenue recently suffered a security breach. Surprisingly, an overabundance of security tools may … Continue reading

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Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast powered by Google’s NotebookLM

Spotify Wrapped, the streamer’s highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized summary detailing your favorite artists, songs, podcasts, and more, the company this year is introducing two new features, including most notably, an AI-powered … Continue reading

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