Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals
Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and other heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has
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Bench is charging people for services they already paid for, some customers say
Bench customers say they're being required to pay for services they already paid for. Bench's new owners deny it. ©
Charles Rollet
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Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral
YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras. © 2024
Charles Rollet
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Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei claims DeepSeek generated sensitive bioweapons data in a safety test it ran. © 2024 TechCrunch. All
Charles Rollet
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Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI
Meta is doubling down on AI spending despite markets briefly panicking over concerns DeepSeek will reduce AI demand. © 2024
Charles Rollet
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Inside the wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that imploded over the holidays
Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. But it was chaos for thousands
Charles Rollet
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Bench shuts down, leaving thousands of businesses without access to accounting and tax docs
Bench, a Canada-based accounting startup that offered software-as-a-service for small and medium-sized businesses, has abruptly shut down, according to a
Charles Rollet
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ElevenLabs’ AI voice generation ‘very likely’ used in a Russian influence operation
Generative AI has a plethora of well-documented misuses, and now, it appears to be cropping up in state influence operations.
Charles Rollet
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a16z-backed Toka wants to help US agencies hack into security cameras and other IoT devices
An Israeli startup specializing in penetrating IoT devices says it's hiring to "support new business growth" in the US government
