Women in tech: how payroll frustrations powered a profitable fintech platform
It’s no secret; payroll is one of the most tiresome tasks for businesses of all shapes and sizes. It is a complex proven pain point for companies everywhere, whether it’s…
Inside Meta’s scramble to catch up on AI
By Katie Paul, Krystal Hu, Stephen Nellis and Anna Tong (Reuters) – As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for…
Chipmaking tool firms expect boom in China sales despite export rules
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Two companies that make tools for manufacturing chips said that they expect sales to China to boom later this year despite U.S. export restrictions on…
Elon Musk’s Starship explodes minutes after first test flight’s liftoff
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) – SpaceX‘s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff in an uncrewed test flight from South Texas on Thursday, cutting…
Alibaba’s Hong Kong shares slump on SoftBank’s stake sale report
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Ankur Banerjee TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group Corp has moved to sell almost all of its remaining shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd,…
SXSW 2023 is over, what we learn from the Austin event
10-day festival of creativity in Texas between AI, film and music SXSW 2023 has closed its doors. For ten days in Austin, Texas, global creatives entered different worlds of technology, film,…
Artificial intelligence piloted a fighter aircraft for 17 hours
VISTA X-62A, a training aircraft, was flown by an artificial intelligence agent for more than 17 hours recently, representing the first time AI engaged on a tactical aircraft. The aircraft completed the…
OpenAI launches project Foundry to rent machines and run ChatGPT
OpenAI has debuted a new developer platform that allows customers to run the company’s new machine learning models, such as GPT-3.5, on dedicated hardware. Its name is Foundry. In screenshots of documentation…
Chips, EVs power Biden’s big bet on America’s industrial policy
By Timothy Aeppel NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (Reuters) – A 77-year-old factory in a hard-luck Ohio town sputtered into high gear to produce a new line of electric garbage trucks. A…
Adobe signs chip supplier Qualcomm for marketing tech software
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Adobe Inc said on Thursday it had signed a deal with semiconductor Qualcomm Inc as a customer for its cloud-based marketing software. Once best known…