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How do you solve a problem like MariaDB? Cozy up to the community, says new CEO

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Techme101

The new CEO of MariaDB (Plc) says he wants closer-knit collaboration with the foundation behind the eponymous open source database project. He cites the corporation’s newfound stability from its recent acquisition by a private equity firm as to why it … Continue reading →

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What is wearable neurotech and why might we need it?

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Techme101

The wearables category already contains multitudes, from exercise-focused smart watches and sleep tracking smart rings to smart femtech and semi-invasive blood glucose monitors — to name a few of the gizmos we’ve tracked over roughly a decade of novel personal … Continue reading →

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California police aren’t loving their Tesla cop cars

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Techme101

Elon Musk on Thursday night rolled out the latest tech from Tesla, saying of its sleek Cybercab robotaxis and a prototype of its new electric van that “the future should look like the future.” Back in the present day, however, … Continue reading →

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Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean to AI

Posted on October 12, 2024 by Techme101

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants you to know he’s not an AI “doomer.” At least, that’s my read of the “mic drop” of a ~15,000 word essay Amodei published to his blog late Friday. (I tried asking Anthropic’s Claude chatbot … Continue reading →

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7 Causes of Call Center Burnout Any Employer Can Address

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Techme101

Learn practical steps for recognizing and responding to call center burnout — before it’s too late.

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AMD Reveals Fleet of Chips for Heavy AI Workloads

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Techme101

From commercial devices to data centers, AMD continues to try to knock Intel and NVIDIA further down the leaderboard of heavy-duty AI processors.

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Researchers question AI’s ‘reasoning’ ability as models stumble on math problems with trivial changes

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Techme101

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical one, but a new paper making the rounds … Continue reading →

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Here’s the full list of 39 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Techme101

In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Khosla Ventures just backed OpenAI with $405M more, but not necessarily with its own capital

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Techme101

Khosla Ventures has raised $405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. Based on the filing alone, Khosla’s stake in the ChatGPT maker appears to be at least 6% of the $6.6 billion round the company closed last week. … Continue reading →

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Firefox Update Patches Exploited Vulnerability

Posted on October 11, 2024 by Techme101

Investigation of the use-after-free flaw is ongoing, but organizations and individual users can update Firefox now for a fix.

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