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Dane Stuckey, former CISO at analytics company Palantir, joins OpenAI as its newest CISO, alongside Matt Knight, OpenAI's head of security. Stuckey announced the move in a post on X Tuesday night. “Security is closely tied to OpenAI’s mission,” he said. “To protect the hundreds of millions of users of our products, ensure democratic institutions can fully benefit from these technologies, and advance the development of secure AGI for the world, we must Meeting the highest standards of security is important. I'm excited about this next chapter and can't wait to help realize a future where AI benefits us all.”…
Pear VC is a prominent pre-seed and seed-focused venture firm that has been running accelerators with about 10 startups in each batch for about 10 years. Over the years, this small but mighty program has led to companies like Viz.ai (valued at $1.2 billion in 2022), which allows FDA-approved AI to diagnose stroke, and Relationships, which raised $80 million in Series C. He has helped launch numerous companies, including management company Affinity. Valar Labs, valued at $620 million, according to PitchBook data, uses AI to help doctors make cancer treatment decisions. (We closed a $22 million Series A in May.)…
At Tesla's highly publicized robotaxis launch event last week, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla plans to introduce some Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in Texas and California in 2025. He said he expects to release an “unsupervised” version of FSD, the company's advanced driver assistance system. He also said that by 2026 or 2027, Tesla will begin producing robotaxis, which are made without steering wheels or pedals. The deployment of both unsupervised FSDs and robotaxis built without human control raises regulatory concerns, although there are skepticism about Musk's ability to stick to the schedule. Let's break this down.…
In just over two weeks, TechCrunch will bring some of the startup world's leading companies to San Francisco's Disrupt. But our partners provide more than just financial support. Their presence at Disrupt provides startups at all stages with the tools, knowledge, and community they need to succeed. Thank you to Meta for supporting our special invite-only cocktail reception. When you receive your invitation to “Women in Tech(Crunch),” all of TechCrunch's female staff will be waiting for you. Dropbox DocSend hosts the breakout sessions and is one of the Startup Battlefield sponsors, along with JP Morgan. Thank you for your enthusiastic…
Meta's X rival Threads is rolling out a new “activity status” feature that lets you see when someone on your social network is online. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the feature in a thread post on Tuesday, saying the feature is intended to serve as a “helpful way to find people to interact with in real time.” . Thankfully, you can turn off the setting and only users who have this feature turned on will be able to see that you're online. Since its launch last year, Threads has lagged behind X (formerly Twitter) in surfacing real-time events and trends.…
Alert management to developers and operations teams may seem like a solved problem. After all, notifying an on-call engineer is no longer that difficult. But the real question is when to alert the right people and how to help them, for example if a service goes down. Many, including Keep, are turning to AI to solve some of these problems. The company offers an open source version that uses a rules-based system, but more interestingly, it has a paid enterprise product that uses AI models to reduce notification fatigue by deduplicating and correlating alerts. is. The Y Combinator-backed company, which…
Managing payroll properly is difficult, especially for small businesses with limited resources. The three founders of payroll and benefits startup Gusto each worked independently while running small businesses before joining forces to fix broken small business payroll systems in 2013. I noticed that. Josh Reeves, Gusto's co-founder and current CEO, said on a recent episode of TechCrunch's Found podcast that the founders got interested in the field out of personal struggles, but they don't want to simply serve their interests. He said he did not want to start a company. own problems. “We started talking to customers right away,” Reeves…
Bloomberg reported on Monday that the Biden administration is privately discussing restricting sales of Nvidia and AMD's advanced AI chips to some Persian Gulf countries on national security grounds. The restrictions could cap export permits to certain countries, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have invested heavily in AI data centers. The White House increasingly sees America's AI chips as a key advantage on the world stage. Last year, the United States banned the sale of Nvidia and AMD's advanced AI chips to China and placed export restrictions on 40 countries around the world to close…
Elon Musk's plan to reduce Company X's dependence on advertising revenue by increasing paid subscriptions has not yet taken off. Since launching the subscription service, formerly known as Twitter, in 2021, X has earned about $200 million across iOS and Android, according to a new third-party analysis of the X premium subscription service by app intelligence firm Appfigures. It is said to have generated in-app purchase revenue. Blue. There are a few things to note about this diagram. First, this amount is based only on purchases made via the mobile app, not the mobile or desktop web. This means the…
At the end of September, Kaspersky forcibly uninstalled it from about 1 million Americans' computers and replaced it with a new antivirus called UltraAV. Many were surprised and appalled that they were not asked to agree to the changes. The move was the final result of the U.S. government's ban on the sale of Kaspersky software in the country and, at least in theory, spelled the end of Kaspersky in the United States. However, not everyone in the United States has given up on Russian antivirus software. Some Americans have found ways around the ban and are still using Kaspersky…