The Entrepreneurial Way with A.I.: Paul Sawers
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Sunday, November 3, 2024

GenAI suffers from data overload, so companies should focus on smaller, specific goals #Ecommerce

11:54 AM

#SeoTips “There is no AI without data, there is no AI without unstructured data, and there is no AI without unstructured data at scale,” said Chet Kapoor, chairman and CEO of data management company DataStax. Kapoor was kicking off a conversation a...

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Thursday, October 24, 2024

General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally #Ecommerce

9:29 AM

#SeoTips U.S. venture capital giant General Catalyst has announced a fresh $8 billion in funds as it looks to ramp up its investments in multi-sector early-stage startups globally, with a specific focus on the U.S., Europe, and India. The capital c...

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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

DuckDuckGo will be making more early-stage investments in privacy-focused startups #Ecommerce

11:54 AM

#SeoTips DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search alternative to Google, wants to put money into startups that have a similar focus on privacy. The company says that it’s actively seeking startups looking for investment, or startups that might be int...

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Saturday, October 5, 2024

5 ‘dumbphones’ that can still run WhatsApp #Ecommerce

9:39 AM

#SeoTips With the luddite revival in full-swing, here are five dumbphones that can still run WhatsApp — and a few others. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Paul Sawers, Khareem Sudlow ...

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

How Kapa uses LLMs to help companies answer users’ technical questions reliably #Ecommerce

10:39 AM

#SeoTips Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage in recent years, upending traditional online search via the likes of ChatGPT while improving customer support, content generation, translation and more. Now, one fledgli...

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Sequoia backs Pydantic to expand beyond its open source data-validation framework #Ecommerce

6:05 AM

#SeoTips Sequoia is investing $12.5M in UK startup Pydantic to help it expand beyond its open source data-validation framework. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Paul Sawers, Khareem Sudlo...

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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Elastic founder on returning to open source four years after going proprietary #Ecommerce

7:19 PM

#SeoTips Licensing kerfuffles have long been a defining facet of the commercial open source space. Some of the biggest vendors have switched to a more restrictive “copyleft” license, as Grafana and Element have done, or gone full proprietary, as Ha...

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Friday, September 27, 2024

Amazon dodges antitrust scrutiny in UK over Anthropic investment #Ecommerce

10:49 AM

#SeoTips The U.K.s' antitrust authority has concluded that Amazon's partnership and equity investment in AI startup Anthropic can't be investigated under current merger rules due to the size and scope of the deal. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Reddit is bringing AI-powered, automatic translation to dozens of new countries #Ecommerce

6:54 AM

#SeoTips Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new languages, including Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Paul Sawers, ...

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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing #Ecommerce

4:49 PM

#SeoTips The fair source concept is designed to help companies align themselves with the "open" software development sphere, without encroaching into existing licensing landscapes. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. vi...

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Friday, September 13, 2024

Three and Vodafone’s $19B merger hits the skids as UK rules the deal would adversely impact customers and MVNOs #Ecommerce

9:35 AM

#SeoTips The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country’s major telecommunication operators. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says that Three and Vodafone’s plan...

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments #Ecommerce

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#SeoTips Cambridge University spinout CardiaTec is striving to tackle cardiovascular diseases, one of the world's leading causes of death, with AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Paul S...

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Sunday, August 25, 2024

The 12 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech #Ecommerce

9:04 AM

#SeoTips A roundup of the year's billion-dollar take-private deals in the technology sector. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Paul Sawers, Khareem Sudlow ...

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay #Ecommerce

9:19 AM

#SeoTips Cockroach Labs, the business and core developer behind the eponymous distributed SQL database known as CockroachDB, is changing its licensing once again — five years after it moved on from an open source model. The company revealed today t...

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Monday, August 12, 2024

Synopsys’s plans to buy Ansys for $35B falls on UK regulatory radar #Ecommerce

9:29 AM

#SeoTips The U.K. antitrust regulator has confirmed that it’s carrying out an early-stage inquiry into Synopsys‘s plans to buy Ansys. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an “invitation to comment,” meaning any stakeholders or int...

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

One man decided to take on Google Maps, 20 years later OpenStreetMap is still going strong #Ecommerce

1:09 PM

#SeoTips From internet protocols and operating systems, to databases and cloud services, some technology is so omnipresent most people don’t even know it exists. The same can be said about OpenStreetMap, the community-driven platform that serves co...

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Thursday, August 8, 2024

UK launches formal probe into Amazon’s ties with AI startup Anthropic #Ecommerce

8:34 AM

#SeoTips The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has confirmed that it’s carrying out a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ties with Anthropic, after Amazon recently completed a $4 billion investment into the AI startup. The news comes a week afte...

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

After EU approval, UK clears HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition #Ecommerce

10:44 AM

#SeoTips Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is one step closer to completion — the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that the deal won't face any further scrutiny. © 202...

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Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct #Ecommerce

10:44 AM

#SeoTips Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, has launched a new AI tool designed to help bloggers write more clearly and succinctly. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Paul Sawers, Khar...

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Lakera, which protects enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities, raises $20M #Ecommerce

10:45 AM

#SeoTips Lakera, a Swiss startup that’s building technology to protect generative AI applications from malicious prompts and other threats, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by European venture capital firm, Atomico. Generative AI has ...

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