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TechCrunchRubrik’s IPO filing reveals an AI governance committee. Get used to it.
Tucked into Rubrik's IPO filing this week — between the parts about employee count and cost statements — was a nugget that reveals how the data management company is thinking about generative AI and the risks that accompany the new tech: Rubrik has quietly set up a governance committee to oversee how artificial intelligence is implemented in its business. According to the Form S-1, the new AI governance committee includes managers from Rubrik's engineering, product, legal and information security teams. Together, the teams will evaluate the potential legal, security and business risks of using generative AI tools and ponder "steps that can be taken to mitigate any such risks," the filing reads.
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Stock market today: S&P 500 slips with Fed's Powell in the spotlight
Fed day arrives with the focus on what clues Powell will offer to the chances for rate cuts this year.
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CMU is developing low-flying drones to map wildfires
A harsh truth: as bad as North American wildfires have grown over the past several years, things are only going to get worse. Climate change continues to accelerate the issue, putting people, property, nature and animals at risk. "As of now, the military-grade drones used by those fighting wildfires are high-altitude aircraft that fly far above the trees," Carnegie Mellon University PhD student Andrew Jong notes.
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CD rates today, May 1, 2024 (up to 5.15% APY)
Looking for the best CD rates available today? Here’s a look at where to find the highest rates and whether now is a good time to invest in a CD.
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Microsoft and OpenAI sued yet again by Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News
A group of publications that include the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the Orlando Sentinel are accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of stealing their copyrighted content to train generative AI products.
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Sam's Club's AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores
Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts, but Walmart-owned Sam's Club says it's turning to AI to speed up its own exit technology. Instead of requiring store staff to check members' purchases against their receipts when leaving the store, Sam's Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked. The technology, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, has now been deployed at over 120 clubs across the U.S., which is 20% of the total number of Sam's Club locations.
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Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses
Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a long list of organizations leaning into AI chatbots as an assistive medium. Yelp said that the chatbot uses OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) along with its own data to ask users about their problems and connect them with relevant professionals for the job.
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Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions
Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon's AI-powered assistive coding tool. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon's Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly announced Q Business. Available through AWS, Q Developer helps with some of the tasks developers do in the course of their daily work, like debugging and upgrading apps, troubleshooting and performing security scans -- much like CodeWhisperer did.
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How European disability tech startups are leveraging AI
Making life better for people with disabilities is a laudable goal, but accessibility tech hasn't traditionally been popular among VCs. In 2022, disability tech companies attracted around $4 billion in early-stage investments, which was a fraction of fintech’s intake, for example. One reason is that disability tech startups are often considered too niche to attain business viability -- at least on the scale that venture capital demands.
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Cowboys top list of teams facing critical unfinished business after NFL Draft
The franchise could have a new head coach and starting QB in 2025. Few teams find themselves in that position and don’t slip into a rebuild. All of which makes it important that Dallas gets something done in the next few months.
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Appalachian State football player Jack Murphy dies
Murphy was an all-conference offensive tackle in his first season at Appalachian State.
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Are you more likely to experience loneliness in early, middle or older adulthood? Here's what a new study says.
What new research has found about loneliness — and what risk factors could make you more likely to experience it.
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2025 Toyota Crown gets blacked-out Nightshade Edition
The 2025 Toyota Crown gains a Nightshade Edition trim that adds blacked-out exterior accents, and every trim level becomes more expensive.
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Devastated by his videos being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea
Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Purcell then looked into services that could help him take the videos down, but most were aimed at large enterprises rather than creators. Resolved to come up with a solution to help prevent such violations, Purcell roped in his co-founder Jonny Smyth (now CTO of the startup) to build Ceartas in 2021.
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Tesla lays off executives, cuts Supercharger division
Tesla fired two key executives and trimmed hundreds of staff, gutting its Supercharger program, a leaked email shows.
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Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industry
French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. Big companies in the fashion industry (and other industries) need to come up with a carbon accounting strategy, as regulation is changing in Europe and the U.S. — the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), California's Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, and the NY Fashion Act all require extensive tracking and reporting of how sustainability issues affect a company's business.
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2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee rumored to get 2.0-liter four as base engine
New rumor says the 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee gets a 2.0-liter four as the base engine. The 2-row keeps its 4xe option, 3-row only gets 2.0-liter.
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Musk's xAI shows there's more money on the sidelines for AI startups
Sure, it's another content licensing deal, but there appears to be a bit more in the tie-up than just content flowing one way and money the other. There was even more to chat about, including the EU handing Apple even more bad news by placing iPadOS under its DMA rules. Given OpenAI's ability to land big deals with Microsoft money, I wonder if it is enough?
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ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformation it generates about individuals. Rather more importantly for a resource-rich giant like OpenAI: Data protection regulators can order changes to how information is processed, so GDPR enforcement could reshape how generative AI tools are able to operate in the EU.
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NYT learns how GM car buyers wound up in a program that raised insurance rates
The NYT discovers how dealer salespeople were opting buyers of GM cars into a the Smart Driver+ program that could raised a driver's insurance rates.