If the ‘Secret Invasion’ title credits aren’t an ethical use of AI art, what is?

This isn’t a facetious question; it’s an unanswered one. What, if anything, is an ethical way to use current generative AI in a major, public-facing work of art? This... Read more »

Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets

Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital asset platform, the firm... Read more »

Life after logistics

You’ll have to forgive me, as this is going to be one of those in-between Actuator weeks. I finally took a couple of days off last week after working... Read more »

Andreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown

Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund... Read more »

TikTok’s COO is leaving the company

TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and... Read more »

Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs

Inflection, a well-funded AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone,” has taken the wraps off the large language model powering its Pi conversational agent. It’s hard to... Read more »

Falling into these 3 traps means you will never raise VC funding

Over the years, I’ve spoken with a quite a few startup founders. Many of them are smart, likable and have really great ideas that they’re able to convey in... Read more »

Fearless Fund raises multi-million-dollar follow-on round from Bank of America, Costco and Mastercard

Fearless Fund today said it has received a multi-million-dollar follow-on investment from Bank of America, Costco and MasterCard for its second fund, though it declined to share how much... Read more »

AWS launches $100M program to fund generative AI initiatives

Amazon, keen to avoid being left behind in the hyper-competitive AI race, is launching a new program to invest in startups and organizations focused on generative AI. Called the... Read more »

Robots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube

Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to... Read more »
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