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Close to 1 in 2 surveyed say they would use air taxis in the future
Through a study of 1,002 participants, scientists have found that almost half (45.7 per cent) say they intend to use air taxis when they become available, with over one-third (36.2 per cent) planning to do so regularly. According to the findings, the intention to take autonomous air taxis is associated with factors such as trust in the AI technology deployed in air taxis, hedonic motivation (the fun or pleasure derived from using technology), performance expectancy (the degree to which users expect that using the system will benefit them), and news media attention (the amount of attention paid to news about air taxis).
Top 5 Cloud Trends U.K. Businesses Should Watch in 2024
TechRepublic identified the top five emerging cloud technology trends that businesses in the U.K. should be aware of this year.
Celoxis: Project Management Software Is Changing Due to Complexity and New Ways of Working
More remote work and a focus on resource planning are two trends driving changes in project management software in APAC and around the globe. Celoxis’ Ratnakar Gore explains how PM vendors are responding to fast-paced change.
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan supports some AI regulation but warns against AI monopolies
Like most Silicon Valley VCs, what Garry Tan sees is opportunities for new, huge, lucrative businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere.
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Well, folks, it looks like Techstars’ drama just got a new plot twist. CEO Maëlle Gavet is making her exit, leaving co-founder David Cohen to swoop […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How to Prepare Your Business for the EU AI Act With KPMG’s EU AI Hub
The EU AI Hub, launched by AI security firm Cranium with KPMG and Microsoft, provides businesses with the tools and expertise they need to ensure their AI offerings are compliant with new regulations.
AI Seoul Summit: 4 Key Takeaways on AI Safety Standards and Regulations
Major breakthroughs were made in global nations’ AI safety commitments, AI safety institutes, research grants and AI risk thresholds at this month’s AI Seoul Summit.
Snowflake Arctic, a New AI LLM for Enterprise Tasks, is Coming to APAC
Data cloud company Snowflake’s Arctic is promising to provide APAC businesses with a true open source large language model they can use to train their own custom enterprise LLMs and inference more economically.
ChatGPT Gets an Upgrade With ‘Natively Multimodal’ GPT-4o
OpenAI added a desktop ChatGPT application for macOS with GPT-4o. Separately, all ChatGPT users have access to Memory and some other features for free.
Anthropic’s Generative AI Research Reveals More About How LLMs Affect Security and Bias
Anthropic opened a window into the ‘black box’ where ‘features’ steer a large language model’s output.
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments.
Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form
Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of their human counterparts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The “autonomous navigation” market — where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to $5.33 billion in 2024 alone. Orca AI is a London-based startup that claims to have […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot AI Will Gain ‘Personal Assistant’ and Custom Agent Capabilities
Other announcements included a Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows, GitHub Copilot Extensions and the general availability of Azure AI Studio.
A community collaboration for progress
Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.
Google Gemini Cheat Sheet (Formerly Google Bard): What Is Google Gemini, and How Does It Work?
Everything you need to know to get started with Gemini, Google’s generative AI.
New AI accurately predicts fly behavior
Researchers trained an AI model to accurately predict male fruit flies' courtship behavior in response to any sight of a female. This breakthrough offers new insight into how the brain processes visual data and may someday pave the way for artificial vision technology.
2024 MAD Design Fellows announced
The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute.
Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs, New Surface Laptops and More Pre-Build 2024 Announcements
During a keynote event, Microsoft also announced more AI-related news, including AI-optimized creative apps and that GPT-4o will be available soon on Copilot.
World leaders still need to wake up to AI risks
Leading AI scientists are calling for stronger action on AI risks from world leaders, warning that progress has been insufficient since the first AI Safety Summit six months ago. Then, the world's leaders pledged to govern AI responsibly. However, twenty-five of the world's leading AI scientists say not enough is actually being done to protect us from the technology's risks.
