The CPO from DataStax joins the AI Impact tour to dive into the challenges of going beyond ideation and putting gen AI into production.
AI Impact Tour: How companies are going from ideation to real-world implementation
Day: May 13, 2024
Booking latest to fall under EU market power rules
Booking.com has been designated a gatekeeper under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), meaning the online travel agency will face regulation under the bloc’s market fairness and contestability framework — with the risk of major fines (of up to 10% or even 20%) for non-compliance. […]
The Morning After: Those geomagnetic storms are messing with farming tech’s GPS systems
Over the last few days, heightened solar activity (and those heady geomagnetic storms) led to outages in the GPS navigation systems that guide some modern tractors from John Deere and other brands. 404 Media reported farmers have been told to pause using high-tech tractors that […]
Apple Store workers in Maryland have voted to authorize a strike
Apple’s first unionized Store in Towson, Maryland has now authorized the first strike against the retail giant. That follows what the union called “over a year of negotiations with Apple management that yielded unsatisfactory outcomes,” according to a press release from the International Association of […]
Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico
Four-year-old Mexican BNPL startup Aplazo facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when the buyer doesn’t have a credit card. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Buymeacoffee’s founder has built an AI-powered voice note app
AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-taking, and the space has quickly flourished as a result. Apps like AudioPen, Cleft Notes, and TalkNotes have proliferated across app stores and the […]
Nvidia launches quantum computer centers with CUDA-Q platform
Nvidia will accelerate quantum computing efforts at supercomputing centers around the world with the open-source Nvidia CUDA-Q platform.
Time Is Running Out in the Hunt for Rare Bitcoin
A small band of collectors is finding and collecting rare fragments of bitcoin worth many times the face value. But their window of opportunity is closing.
Most App Store developers aren’t taking Apple up on its new outside payments option
It seems Apple’s recently added option for App Store developers to include links to external payment methods isn’t actually all that appealing. In a hearing on Friday as part of the ongoing legal battle with Epic, Apple said only 38 developers have applied to add […]
A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing
We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it’s been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.