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AWS re:Invent: Everything Amazon’s announced, from new AI tools to LLM updates and more

We will deliver quick hits of the biggest news from AWS re:Invent as they are announced.

Reddit refreshes its logo as IPO speculation swirls

If you weren’t already buying the Reddit IPO rumors, the internet’s beating heart of deeply niche microcultures just introduced a rebrand, refreshing its iconic logo and rolling out some n

Loft Orbital is launching ‘virtual missions’ for developers wanting access to space

SaaS — software-as-a-service — was the paradigmatic acronym for startups operating over the last decade. But if Loft Orbital has its way, SaaS will soon come to mean something very differe

Founder of spyware maker Hacking Team arrested for attempted murder: local media

The founder of the infamous and now-defunct spyware maker Hacking Team was arrested on Saturday after allegedly stabbing and attempting to murder a relative, according to multiple news reports. David

WSJ says the Goldman-Apple deal is dead. Apple says not yet.

Apple is quietly disputing a headline by The Wall Street Journal that claims the tech giant has “pulled the plug” on its Goldman Sachs partnership which covers the Apple Card credit card a

Something’s up with Spotify Wrapped and Burlington, VT

Happy Spotify Wrapped Day! It’s that time of year again where half of your social media feed is clogged with graphics from Spotify’s annual, personalized roundup, and the other half is peo

Ask Sophie: What’s the fastest green card if we are from India or China?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on X Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entreprene

Netflix gets a major win with GTA: The Trilogy coming to its mobile games roster

With a Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer on the horizon, Netflix just got its hands on Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition, the company announced today. GTA: The Trilog

Discord expands its plans to sell custom avatars and other virtual items

After introducing an in-app shop that invited premium subscribers to buy digital decorations for their profiles, Discord now wants everybody to get in on the goods. Discord is expanding access to its

Innovation or folly? The Cybertruck will test whether anyone still trusts Tesla

The Tesla Cybertruck, the first of which will be delivered Thursday four years after its debut, is loved and loathed. For fans, it’s a symbol for what Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk stand for: crea

Feds seize Sinbad crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean hackers

As part of an international law enforcement investigation, the FBI and the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service have seized the websites of a crypto mixer that was allegedly used by

With Neptune Analytics, AWS combines the power of vector search and graph data

There’s been a debate of sorts in AI circles about which database is more important in finding truthful information in generative AI applications: graph or vector databases. AWS decided to leave

AWS Clean Rooms ML lets companies securely collaborate on AI

Amazon’s launching (in preview) a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations. Called Clean Roo

Call for content: Speak at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

We’re searching for seasoned startup founders and subject-matter experts to host a roundtable at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. Our one-day summit, designed for emerging early-stage startup founders,

Elon Musk is now taking applications for data to study X — but only EU researchers need apply…

Lawmakers take note: Elon Musk-owned X appears to have quietly complied with a hard legal requirement in the European Union that requires larger platforms (aka VLOPs) to provide researchers with data

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod makes it easier to train and fine-tune LLMs

At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon’s AWS cloud arm announced the launch of SageMaker HyperPod, a new purpose-built service for training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). SageM

Amazon finally releases its own AI-powered image generator at AWS re:Invent 2023

Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so. During a keynote at its AWS re:Invent 2023 conference this

A three-step process to launch and sustain your merged brand

When companies merge, there’s almost always significant trepidation, so your first job must be to offer your stakeholders peace of mind.

Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source gener

Why is cybersecurity venture funding so tepid despite the strong demand?

Has late-stage investing declined so much that no technology subsector can really post impressive investment numbers?
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