EnCharge raises $100M+ to accelerate AI using analog chips
EnCharge AI, a semiconductor startup developing analog memory chips for AI applications, has raised more than $100 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global to spur its…
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Director of the Game ‘Avowed’ Says AI Can’t Replace Human Creativity
“Good game stories are going to be written by good narrative designers,” says Obsidian’s Carrie Patel. The new fantasy RPG she helmed gets an early release today.
How Does DeepSeek Measure up as a PR Tool?
On January 20th, 2025, a Chinese company called DeepSeek released a new AI model to the public. The model is free and, according to many users, journalists, and publications, a…
The Many Faces of Reinforcement Learning: Shaping Large Language Models
In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly redefined the field of artificial intelligence (AI), enabling machines to understand and generate human-like text with remarkable proficiency. This success is…
Top AI Models are Getting Lost in Long Documents
A new study from researchers at LMU Munich, the Munich Center for Machine Learning, and Adobe Research has exposed a weakness in AI language models: they struggle to understand long…
Ganesh Shankar, CEO & Co-Founder of Responsive – Interview Series
Ganesh Shankar, CEO and Co-Founder of Responsive, is an experienced product manager with a background in leading product development and software implementations for Fortune 500 enterprises. During his time in…
Data center tweaks could unlock 76 GW of new power capacity in the U.S.
A new study argues that data centers could be ideal demand-response participants because they have the potential to be flexible. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Designing the future of entertainment
An entertainment revolution, powered by AI and other emerging technologies, is fundamentally changing how content is created and consumed today. Media and entertainment (M&E) brands are faced with unprecedented opportunities—to…
Nilutpal Pegu, Vice President, Global Head of Digital — Balancing Digital Innovation in Pharma, AI in Rare Diseases, Leadership in Transformation, Data Science Pitfalls, E-Commerce, and Future Trends
As the pharmaceutical industry undergoes rapid digital transformation, balancing innovation with regulatory compliance remains a critical challenge. Nilutpal Pegu, Vice President and Global Head of Digital at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.…
How to Scale Sklearn with Dask
Here’s how Dask applies the building blocks of sklearn to bring ML modeling workflows to the next level of scalability via high-performance parallel computing