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Last week, we announced the winners of our breakout sessions. Now, it's time to introduce the roundtable sessions that truly “closed out” the competition for this year's Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice Program. With thousands of votes from around the world and five incredible sessions earning finalist spots, these finalists proved they have what it takes to make things happen. You can take that same can-do attitude and know-how with you when you join us for our roundtable sessions this October. Now, meet the winners! Your Enterprise GTM is broken—here's how to fix it Speaker: SC Moatti, Founding Managing Partner, Mighty…
TikTok said its security team was working to address the issue after hackers breached the accounts of several celebrities and brands on its video platform, including Paris Hilton, CNN and Sony. The ByteDance-owned video app maker did not provide any information about the nature of the attack or its mitigation techniques, saying only that it thwarted it and has taken steps to prevent such an incident from happening in the future. As previously reported by Semaphore and Forbes, the malicious attack likely involved malware sent through TikTok direct messages, potentially impacting account owners' ability to access their TikTok profiles. None…
After experiencing an outage that lasted for several hours in the early morning, OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot was down again, but this time it wasn't the only AI provider affected: Anthropic's Claude and Perplexity both began experiencing issues on Tuesday morning as well, though these were resolved more quickly. Google's Gemini appears to still be operational, although some users have reported that it may have gone offline temporarily. It's unusual for all three major AI providers to be down at the same time and could indicate a broader infrastructure or internet-wide issue, such as affecting multiple social media sites at the…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies for more wide-ranging needs. And that growth has propelled OpenAI itself into becoming one of the most-hyped companies in recent memory, even if CEO and co-founder Sam Altman’s firing and swift return raised concerns about its direction and opened the door for competitors. What does that mean for OpenAI, ChatGPT and its other ambitions? The fallout is still settling,…
The coming weeks could be pivotal for WorldCoin, the controversial eye-scanning crypto venture co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman, whose operations remain almost entirely shuttered following a series of privacy violation complaints in the European Union, including in France, Germany, Portugal and Spain. According to the Worldcoin.org website, the only EU market where Worldcoin is still under investigation is Germany, where developer Tools for Humanity (TfH) has a local office, but that could soon change depending on the outcome of an investigation launched by the Bavarian data protection authority. The agency told TechCrunch that it expects a decision on the investigation…
True Fit, an AI-powered size and fit personalization tool, has been providing size recommendation solutions to thousands of retailers for nearly two decades. Now the company is branching out into the generative AI space with a new tool called “Fit Hub,” which aims to make it easier for online shoppers to find the right clothes for their body type. Size issues remain one of the biggest sources of friction for online consumers, with an average e-commerce return rate of 17.6%. Many customers carefully study size charts, descriptions, and customer reviews on product detail pages to determine how a garment will…
Early winners in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Take data labeling startup Scale AI and its long and diverse list of customers and investors. Founded in 2016, the San Francisco-based startup developed software that labels image, text, audio, and video data that companies use to train machine learning models. Scale AI started by providing companies like Nuro and Zoox with the labeled data they needed to train machine learning models for self-driving cars. The company quickly expanded to government, e-commerce, enterprise automation, and robotics companies. Scale AI's current…
Imagine the number of parts that go into making a rocket engine. Then imagine requesting and comparing quotes for each of those parts, getting purchase approval for the final selected part, and tracking those parts until they arrive at headquarters. It's exactly as complicated as it sounds. But it doesn't have to be, say two brothers who just secured funding to update their hardware company's procurement process. Like many startups, Forge was born out of frustration with outdated tools in cutting-edge industries — CEO Emir Sahmanovic was a mechanical engineer at defense and space companies L3Harris, Blue Origin, and Stoke…
The Raspberry Pi 5, a small but powerful computer that has become hugely popular among tech enthusiasts and industrial companies, is now an AI computer, too. The company just released the AI Kit, a $70 expansion kit with a neural network inference accelerator that can be used for local inference. With this new expansion module, Raspberry Pi is taking advantage of its HAT+ expansion card, where HAT stands for “Hardware Attached on Top,” a cutesy acronym the company uses for expansion cards that can be mounted on top of a regular Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi's HAT+ expansion card adds…
When Stacklet founders Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu left Capital One to launch their startup in 2020, most companies weren't too concerned about containing cloud costs. But in the years since, economic headwinds — first the pandemic and then rising interest rates — have made containing cloud costs a necessity. That's why Stacklet's cloud cost management and governance platform is growing in popularity. In fact, CEO Stanfield said the company will triple its revenue in 2023 compared to the previous year, though he couldn't provide specific numbers. Investors seemed pleased with what they saw, and have now invested $14.5 million…