March 8, 20230CommentsAs governments adopt third-party automated fraud-detection algorithms, researchers say the companies running the systems are overpaid and lack accountability (Morgan Meaker/Wired)
March 8, 20230CommentsAn oral history of LinkedIn, which turns 20 in May, as told by Reid Hoffman and its co-founders, current executives, Satya Nadella, Richard Branson, and others (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
March 8, 20230CommentsLA-based Believer, a studio founded by ex-Riot executives, which plans to build open world games using generative AI, raised a $55M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
March 8, 20230CommentsGoogle and the Technical University of Berlin unveil PaLM-E, a visual language model with 562B parameters, integrating vision and language for robotic control (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
March 8, 20230CommentsA look at the 16 companies behind 562 brands dominating Google Search results, their take on AI and SEO, their niches and the ones they’re taking over, and more (Glen Allsopp/Detailed)
March 8, 20230CommentsKresus, which is developing a Web3 app to let users buy NFTs, access financial services, and more, raised a $25M series A led by Liberty City Ventures (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)
March 8, 20230CommentsSan Diego-based marketing automation service Soci, used by Ace Hardware, Ford and others, raised $120M in equity and debt, bringing its total funding to ~$238M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
March 8, 20230CommentsElon Musk apologizes after mocking a laid-off Twitter employee Haraldur Thorleifsson, who joined Twitter in 2021 after the company acquired his startup Ueno (Barbara Ortutay/Associated Press)
March 8, 20230CommentsGlobal spending on AI, including software, hardware, and services for AI-centric systems, is forecast to reach $154B in 2023, up 26.9% compared to 2022 (IDC)
March 8, 20230CommentsHow effective altruism, championed by SBF before he dismissed it as a dodge, and doomsday scenarios, like killer rogue AI, became Silicon Valley obsessions (Ellen Huet/Bloomberg)