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SpaceX’s valuation continues to rise at an eye-popping pace, with the company reportedly in talks to sell insider shares at a price that would value it at around $350 billion, Bloomberg reported.  It would mark an enormous increase from the … Continue reading →

The Department of Energy appears to be on a loan-approval spree in the lead up to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the winners are all companies manufacturing clean energy solutions on U.S. soil. Trump has promised to cancel any unspent … Continue reading →

Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatbot refuses to answer questions if asked about a “David Mayer.” Asking it to do so causes it to freeze up instantly. Conspiracy theories … Continue reading →

The China-backed hackers are reportedly still inside the networks of some of America’s largest phone and internet companies, weeks after the hacks were disclosed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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A year ago, AWS announced Q, its AI assistant platform for business users and developers. Q Developer is getting a wide range of updates today and so is Q Business. The focus for Q Business is on new integrations that … Continue reading →

It’s been close to a decade since Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced SageMaker, its platform to create, train, and deploy AI models. While in previous years AWS has focused on greatly expanding SageMaker’s capabilities, this year, … Continue reading →

At its re:Invent 2024 conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, announced a new family of generative AI, multimodal models called Nova. There’s four text-based models in total: Micro, Lite, Pro, and Premier. Micro, Lite, and Pro are … Continue reading →

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, is launching a new tool to combat hallucinations — that is, scenarios where an AI model behaves unreliably. Announced at AWS’ re:Invent 2024 conference in Las Vegas, the service, Automated Reasoning checks, … Continue reading →

Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market. ThredUp expanded into Europe in 2021 with the acquisition of Remix, a Bulgarian startup that operates across a handful of central and eastern … Continue reading →