· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Gitar, a startup that uses agents to secure code, emerges from stealth with $9 million
The company uses AI to review code that, more often than not these days, has also been generated by AI.
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· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can use Creative Cloud apps to complete tasks
Adobe says the assistant can work across apps like Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Express, Illustrator and its other apps to do tasks for you.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Reid Hoffman weighs in on the ‘tokenmaxxing’ debate
Reid Hoffman says tracking AI token use can gauge adoption, but cautions it should be paired with context and not treated as a direct productivity metric.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI
Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
India’s vibe-coding startup Emergent enters OpenClaw-like AI agent space
Emergent's Wingman lets users manage and automate tasks through chat on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
The musician-turned-biotech-founder waiting to fundraise
When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc got COVID despite being vaccinated and boosted, he tried to fund research for a better solution. What he quickly found out? You can’t just write a check in biotech. Regulators require a commercialization plan, and philanthropy doesn’t move science t
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Google rolls out a native Gemini app for Mac
You can share anything on their screen with Gemini to get help with what they're looking at in the moment, including local files.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
AI learning app Gizmo levels up with 13M users and a $22M investment
Gizmo, an AI-powered learning platform, has attracted more than 13 million users and just secured $22 million in Series A funding.
· 30 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX
The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercis
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
LinkedIn data shows AI isn’t to blame for hiring decline… yet
LinkedIn says hiring is down 20% since 2022, but blames higher interest rates — not AI — for the slowdown.
· 30 days ago· MIT Technology Review
No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all
For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a com
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
Hightouch reaches $100M ARR fueled by marketing tools powered by AI
The startup says it grew its ARR by $70 million in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers.
· 30 days ago· MIT Technology Review
Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram
From inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a popular Vietnamese banking app on his phone. The app asks him to upload a photo associated with the account, so he clicks on a picture of a 30-something Asian man. Next, the app requests to open the camera for a video “liveness”
· 30 days ago· MIT Technology Review
The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moo
· 30 days ago· TechCrunch AI
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents
OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.
· about 1 month ago· Towards Data Science
How To Produce Ultra-Compact Vector Graphic Plots With Orthogonal Distance Fitting
Generate high-quality, minimal SVG plots by fitting Bézier curves with an ODF algorithm. The post How To Produce Ultra-Compact Vector Graphic Plots With Orthogonal Distance Fitting appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· about 1 month ago· Towards Data Science
A Guide to Understanding GPUs and Maximizing GPU Utilization
In an age of constrained compute, learn how to optimize GPU efficiency through understanding architecture, bottlenecks, and fixes ranging from simple PyTorch commands to custom kernels. The post A Guide to Understanding GPUs and Maximizing GPU Utilization appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· about 1 month ago· Towards Data Science
A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Quantum SDK
What to use, when to use it, and what to ignore? The post A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Quantum SDK appeared first on Towards Data Science.
· about 1 month ago· Towards Data Science
Data Modeling for Analytics Engineers: The Complete Primer
The best data models make it hard to ask bad questions and easy to answer good ones. The post Data Modeling for Analytics Engineers: The Complete Primer appeared first on Towards Data Science.