Flow is a spinout of VTT, a Finland state-backed research organization that’s a bit like a national lab.
You can’t just magically squeeze extra performance out of CPUs across architectures and code bases.
But Flow has been working on something that has been theoretically possible — it’s just that no one has been able to pull it off.
What Flow claims to have done is remove this limitation, turning the CPU from a one-lane street into a multi-lane highway.
The chef still only has two hands, but now the chef can work ten times as fast.
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LinkedIn quietly started to post information describing its new Premium Company Page six days ago.
Pricing for premium company pages is not immediately disclosed, but it appears admins of pages that are eligible for it can see it.
The Premium Company Page subscription in some ways will look very familiar, in that it taps into well-known LinkedIn mechanics.
Testimonials, which LinkedIn has really promoted as a feature on profile pages for individuals, also get a push here: admins can display these prominently at the top of their premium pages.
Last but not least, with LinkedIn big on verification lately, and here too a Page can get a golden badge with a premium subscription.
With the aim of identifying criminal suspects, U.S. police departments are increasingly relying on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of users’ data from tech companies.
So-called “reverse” searches allow law enforcement and federal agencies to force big tech companies, like Google, to turn over information from their vast stores of user data.
Reverse searches effectively cast a digital dragnet over a tech company’s store of user data to catch the information that police are looking for.
Microsoft, Snap, Uber and Yahoo (which owns TechCrunch) have all received reverse orders for user data.
Some companies choose not to store user data and others scramble the data so it can’t be accessed by anyone other than the user.
OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven’t bothered making an account.
Instead, you’ll be dropped right into conversation with ChatGPT, which will use the same model as logged-in users.
You can chat to your heart’s content, but be aware you’re not getting quite the same set of features that folks with accounts are.
You won’t be able to save or share chats, use custom instructions, or other stuff that generally has to be associated with a persistent account.
OpenAI offers this helpful gif:More importantly, this extra-free version of ChatGPT will have “slightly more restrictive content policies.” What does that mean?
On Android, Gemini also breaks Google Assistant’s song recognition.
So imagine my frustration when I discovered that Gemini on Android can’t recognize songs — or even perform the basic task of funneling song ID requests to Google Assistant.
Or, were I using a conventional home screen, I could place the dedicated song ID shortcut.
Perhaps it’s sophisticated in other ways — ways I haven’t discovered yet, frankly.
Full transparency, I’ve reached out to Google about song recognition via Gemini and I’ll update this post if I hear back.
That’s where Codified, an early stage startup that was nurtured last year inside venture capital firm Madrona Ventures, comes into the picture.
The company was built from the ground up from a data veteran with an eye toward solving the data compliance problem, and today it announced a $4 million seed round.
Company founder and CEO Yatharth Gupta sees that data is at the center of today’s technology, yet companies struggle to control access to it.
Both jobs, he says, were heavily involved in data and he saw the kinds of problems he’s trying to solve with Codified.
Investors in today’s round include Vine Ventures, Soma Capital and Madrona Venture Labs where Codified incubated last year.
Much of the intriguing climate tech that crosses our desks is theoretical or only just coming to market — think: tech that sucks carbon out of the sky, emerging lithium-ion battery alternatives and bio-plastics that’ve yet to seriously scale.
The Toronto-based venture firm just announced the close of a $335 million fund (USD) — its third and largest to date.
“If you’re not making money, you’re not having impact,” McCaig told TechCrunch.
“Climate tech tends to be fairly distributed around the globe, more so than AI and software, which tends to concentrate in California,” added McCaig.
The venture firm’s second fund clocked in at $150 million (USD), while its first — a seed fund — totaled $30 million.
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) power the modern internet, including most websites, mobile apps, and IoT devices we use.
This phenomenon, often referred to as the “API economy,” is projected to have a total market value of $14.2 trillion by 2027.
How AI integration changed the API landscapeVarious kinds of AI have been here for a while, but it’s generative AI (and LLMs) that completely changed the risk landscape.
Many AI companies use the benefits of API technologies to bring their products to every home and workplace.
Various kinds of AI have been here for a while, but it’s generative AI (and large language models [LLMs]) that completely changed the risk landscape.
