Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade for $90M
Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for around $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2012, Tastemade produces food, travel, and home videos and…
Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe | MIT News
In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway, practicing “base recovery” protocol after…
the story of Maria Paula — Bsurance
More than eight months ago, Maria Paula Caicedo joined the bsurance team as the Business Development Intern. Maria Paula comes from the second most biodiverse country in the world, Colombia,…
Steve Blank The Venture Mindset – Worth A Read
Posted on May 21, 2024 by steve blank Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a…
From Sparse Rewards to Precise Mastery: How DEMO3 is Revolutionizing Robotic Manipulation
Long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks are a serious challenge for reinforcement learning, caused mainly by sparse rewards, high-dimensional action-state spaces, and the challenge of designing useful reward functions. Conventional reinforcement learning…
Wall Street flags new AI risks from hallucinations, criminal use
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other Wall Street firms are warning investors about new risks from the increasing use of artificial intelligence, including software…
Banks want US consumer regulator back to undo rules they loathe
Financial companies were rarely shy about their issues with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But a largely shuttered consumer watchdog is creating its own problems for the industry. While the…
Employee in the spotlight: Cisela Klahr — Bsurance
It’s been one year since bsurance got one addition richer. Cisela Klahr joined the growth team, motivated for a new professional challenge bringing over thirteen years of experience working in…
Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top AI companies — and he wants the…
Creating a common language | MIT News
A lot has changed in the 15 years since Kaiming He was a PhD student. “When you are in your PhD stage, there is a high wall between different disciplines…