Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Raising $445 Million
Zume, a Silicon Valley-based robotic pizza-making and delivery startup, has shut down and is liquidating its assets. From a report: The company had raised $445 million in venture capital funding, including $375 million from SoftBank in 2018 at a $2.25 billion valuation. That’s a whole lotta pepperoni. And cheese, which Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
OpenAI, DeepMind Will Open Up Models To UK Government
Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced at London Tech Week on Monday. The priority access will be granted in order “to help build better evaluations and help us better Read more…
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Edge Sends Images You View Online To Microsoft
Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view online to Microsoft. Edge has a built-in image enhancement Read more…
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Will Tech Layoffs Trigger a Wave of Unionization?
The recent tsunami of tech layoffs could leave a wave of union organizing in its wake. That’s according to Skylar Hinnant, a senior QA tester at Microsoft’s ZeniMax, who supported a successful union campaign at the gaming unit of the software giant… Within tech companies, roles such as quality assurance Read more…
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Does the US Government Want You to Believe in UFOs?
A New York Times columnist considers alternate reasons for the upcoming House hearings with a whistleblower former intelligence official, David Grusch, who claims the US government possesses “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles: This whistle-blower’s mere existence is evidence of a fascinating shift in public U.F.O. discourse. There may not Read more…