Amazon’s launching a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations. Called Clean Rooms ML — an offshoot of AWS’ existing Clean Rooms product —…
Tech Crunch – Call for content: Speak at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024
We’re searching for seasoned startup founders and subject-matter experts to host a roundtable at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. Our one-day summit, designed for emerging early-stage startup founders, takes place in Boston, Massachusetts,…
Tech Crunch – Elon Musk is now taking applications for data to study X — but only EU researchers need apply…
Lawmakers take note: Elon Musk-owned X appears to have quietly complied with a hard legal requirement in the European Union that requires larger platforms (aka VLOPs) to provide researchers with data access…
KTSM News – 340 El Paso families to receive free groceries on Thursday
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Hundreds of El Paso families have the chance to register for a free pop-up grocery market that will be providing a week’s worth of groceries on Thursday,…
Tech Crunch – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod makes it easier to train and fine-tune LLMs
At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageMaker HyperPod is now generally…
Texas Monthly – Snowball Fights, Scuba Santa, and Other Outrageous Texas Holiday Spectacles
You don’t have to go big to soak in the winter holiday season. Some folks prefer to celebrate by gathering family around the fireplace, while others hope for an evening or two…
Tech Crunch – Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator
Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so. During a keynote at its re:Invent conference this…
Tech Crunch – A three-step process to launch and sustain your merged brand
When companies merge, there’s almost always significant trepidation, so your first job must be to offer your stakeholders peace of mind. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Read…
Tech Crunch – Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI
Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI…
Tech Crunch – Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead
Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTrails winning as Apple’s iPhone App of the Year in 2023, while…