Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering…
Border Report – 3 National Guard members killed in ‘accidental’ shooting
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A freak accident involving a high-powered rifle led to the death of three National Guard soldiers on Tuesday in Juarez, Mexico. Authorities say several Guard members…
Tech Crunch – Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks
In a new report, a California-based policy group co-led by Fei-Fei Li, an AI pioneer, suggests that lawmakers should consider AI risks that “have not yet been observed in the world” when…
Tech Crunch – Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse
Newsletter platform Ghost, an open source competitor to Substack, is now connected to the fediverse, also known as the open social web. Federated apps run on the protocol ActivityPub, which powers apps…
KTSM News – Gail fire grows over 200 acres in Otero County
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Gail fire has grown to over 200 acres and is 0 percent contained on Wednesday, March 19, in Otero County, according to the New Mexico Forestry…
Tech Crunch – A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup
Nvidia has invested in a startup founded by a former Google DeepMind senior research scientist who specialized in robotics and AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read…
Tech Crunch – Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber made a splash at SXSW last week, showing up at her keynote event in a T-shirt that subtly poked fun at Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg. Or, at least…
Tech Crunch – xAI launches an API for generating images
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can generate…
Tech Crunch – Telegram founder Pavel Durov says app now has 1B users, calls WhatsApp a ‘cheap, watered down imitation’
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is up from last year’s reported 950 million monthly active users. Durov also…
Tech Crunch – Elon Musk’s X reportedly bounces back to $44B valuation
Social media site X’s valuation has bounced back to $44 billion, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Elon Musk purchased the platform, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion…