Episodes

  • Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers

    Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI to defense customers
    Nov 8 2024
    Anthropic today announced that it’s teaming up with Palantir, the data-mining company, and Amazon Web Services to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude 3 and 3.5 family of AI models. The news comes as a growing number of AI vendors, for strategic and revenue-related reasons, look to ink deals with U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 mins
  • The FTC comes after neobank Dave for misleading marketing, hidden fees

    The FTC comes after neobank Dave for misleading marketing, hidden fees
    Nov 8 2024
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Tuesday it will be taking action against the online cash app and neobank Dave, which it says used “misleading marketing to deceive consumers.” At issue is how Dave marketed $500 cash advances to consumers that it rarely offered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 mins
  • AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe

    AI coding assistants can help startups develop products, seed VCs believe
    Nov 7 2024
    By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get debugging help could be just the beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 mins
  • Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to the app

    Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to the app
    Nov 7 2024
    It seems Lyft is hoping to catch up to Uber’s string of autonomous vehicle partnerships. Lyft announced Wednesday three separate partnerships — with startup May Mobility, automated driving company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar — all aimed at establishing a foothold in the emerging autonomous vehicle market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 mins
  • AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down

    AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down
    Nov 6 2024
    “Move cautiously and red-team things” is sadly not as catchy as “move fast and break things.” But three AI safety advocates made it clear to startup founders that going too fast can lead to ethical issues in the long run. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 mins
  • Can Pictionary and Minecraft test AI models’ ingenuity?

    Can Pictionary and Minecraft test AI models’ ingenuity?
    Nov 6 2024
    Most AI benchmarks don’t tell us much. They ask questions that can be solved with rote memorization, or cover topics that aren’t relevant to the majority of users. So some AI enthusiasts are turning to games as a way to test AIs’ problem-solving skills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 mins
  • X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts, Threads now has 275M monthly active users, OpenAI has hired the co-founder of Pebble, and MIT debuted am LLM-inspired method for teaching robots new skills

    X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts, Threads now has 275M monthly active users, OpenAI has hired the co-founder of Pebble, and MIT debuted am LLM-inspired method for teaching robots new skills
    Nov 5 2024
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    7 mins
  • U.S. laws regulating AI prove elusive, but there may be hope

    U.S. laws regulating AI prove elusive, but there may be hope
    Nov 5 2024
    Can the U.S. meaningfully regulate AI? It’s not at all clear yet. Policymakers have achieved progress in recent months, but they’ve also had setbacks, illustrating the challenging nature of laws imposing guardrails on the technology. In March, Tennessee became the first state to protect voice artists from unauthorized AI cloning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 mins