CTGT aims to make AI models safer
Growing up as an immigrant, Cyril Gorlla taught himself how to code — and practiced as if a man possessed.
“I aced my mother's community college programming course at 11, amidst periodically disconnected household utilities,” he told technewss.
In high school,
How Slice entered India's regulated banking sector
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Amazon brings its Rufus AI shopping assistant to more international markets
Amazon is extending the availability of its AI-enabled shopping assistant, Rufus, to more markets in Europe and the Americas.
The e-commerce giant has been widely considered to be playing catch-up with its Big Tech brethren in the AI sphere, particularly against the backdrop of the generative AI h
LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters
LinkedIn, the social platform used by professionals to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop skills, is taking the wraps off its latest effort to build artificial intelligence tools for users. Hiring Assistant is a new product designed to take on a wide array of recruitment
GitHub’s Copilot comes to Apple’s Xcode
At its Universe conference, GitHub today announced a number of major new products, including the Spark project for writing applications entirely with AI, as well as multi-model support for its Copilot service. But Copilot itself is also getting quite a few updates.
With this release, Microsoft-ow
GitHub’s Copilot goes multi-model and adds support for Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini
GitHub today announced that it will now allow developers to switch between a number of large language models when they use Copilot Chat, its code-centric ChatGPT-like service. Until now, Copilot Chat was powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Going forward, developers can choose between Anthropic's
GitHub Spark lets you build web apps in plain English
When GitHub Copilot launched and started autocompleting lines of code — and, later, entire code snippets — the question many people were asking was: How long until we can just describe an app in natural language and Copilot will build it for us? We’ve seen quite a few experiments
Apple introduces M4 Pro chip, debuting on the new Mac Mini
The week of Mac announcements chugs along, as Apple introduces the latest addition to its line of first-party silicon. The new M4 is debuting as an upgradeable option for the just-announced palm-size Mac Mini.
The Pro follows the May release of the original M4. That chip bucked the standard Apple
Apple's new M4 Mac Mini really lives up to its name
The week of Macs keeps rolling along with a brand-new Mac Mini. The rumors were true: The M4 edition finds the company scaling the little desktop down to not much larger than an Apple TV. The Mini enclosure measures 5 x 5 inches, versus the Apple TV 4K's 3.66 x 3.66.
The significantly smaller
EU boosts EIC budget for supporting deep tech R&D and strategic scale-ups
The European Union will spend €1.4 billion (about $1.5 billion) next year to bolster deep tech research and support scale-ups in strategic areas like AI, low-carbon technologies, agritech and biotech, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The budget for the 2025 Work Program of the European
Popular calendar app Fantastical lands on Windows
Buzzy calendar apps tend to make a big splash and disappear after a while. Sometimes they get acquired, sometimes the company pivots to something else. That's not the case with Fantastical, a popular calendar app for macOS, iOS, and other Apple platforms. Originally launched as a Mac app in 201
Why Crosscut Ventures is ‘following the founders’ into climate, space, and beyond
Eight years ago, Brian Garrett and his partners sensed the ground shifting.
At the time, Crosscut Ventures, where Garrett is co-founder and managing partner, had been investing in early-stage startups in Los Angeles and Southern California for nearly a decade. It focused mostly on software c
MoneyGram replaces CEO weeks after massive customer data breach
Money transfer giant MoneyGram has replaced its chief executive less than a month after confirming that hackers stole reams of customers’ personal information and transaction records in a data breach.
In a statement Monday, MoneyGram said it appointed Anthony Soohoo as the company’s ch
Infinite Machine raises $9M a16z-led round to convince Americans to buy scooters
Infinite Machine turned many heads when it revealed its metallic, cyberpunk-style electric scooter in 2023. Now one of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capital firms is backing the startup's vision of filling the world's cities with Infinite Machine’s futuristic vehicles in a big