TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls “responsible generative AI.” The cloud software giant, via its Salesforce Ventures VC off-shoot, today announced a $250 million generative AI investment fund, which it said has already invested in four startups: search engine upstart You.com, which introduced generative AI smarts a few months back; Anthropic, a heavily VC-backed AI startup from for

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Vince Kellen understands the well-documented limitations of ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AI technologies — that answers may not be truthful, generated images may lack compositional integrity, and outputs may be biased — but he’s moving ahead anyway. Kellen, CIO at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), says employees are already using ChatGPT to write code as well as job descriptions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The global downturn has impacted every sector, but fintech bore the brunt of it as public-market valuations fell off a cliff last year. However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

CRM giant Salesforce today said that it would commit $250 million to investments in startups focused on generative AI, even as the company warned of the dangers of the technology. The company emphasized the potential gains for application software possible through the use of AI in its initial announcement of investments in four AI-driven companies. The first, Anthropic, bills itself as an “AI safety and research company,” trying to create more predictable and steerable AI systems, without the un

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

D-ID , the Israeli startup behind Deep Nostalgia , announced today that it’s launching the beta version of its new web app that allows users to talk face-to-face with photorealistic AI. The web app, called chat.D-ID, combines D-ID’s text-to-video streaming technology with OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make conversations with AI more accessible.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Assured Allies , an insurtech company focused on retirement savings, announced today the closing of $42.5 million in Series B funding. It’s a pretty significant Series B size given the challenging fundraising environment for insurtech companies noted by several of my colleagues in recent stories. For example, Kyle Wiggers reported that investment into the sector fell in the fourth quarter of 2022 to its “lowest level since Q1 2020,” Anna Heim spoke with investors who are still hanging in there a

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Australian investment firm Subco is offering an alternative route for internet connectivity between Australia, Middle East and Europe through the Oman Australia Cable (OAC) by avoiding the earthquake prone route that currently goes through Malacca Strait. Subco OAC is already 9,800 km long, with landing points in Perth, West Island, and Cocos Islands in Australia, and Muscat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Soci (pronounced “soh-shee”), a marketing automation platform with customers including Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike’s, Pet Supplies Plus and Ford, today announced that it raised $120 million in a financing round led by JMI Equity with participation from Vertical Venture Partners, Blossom Street Ventures and Renew Group Private Limited.

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MARCH 7, 2023

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The economy is a bit better — kind of, maybe, sort of? While things appear to be trending in the right direction, it’s going to be a long road. Besides, if you’re unable to find work, positive macroeconomic trends are cold comfort. One of the nice things about having a platform like TechCrunch is the opportunity to help people in that difficult position.

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Xebia

MARCH 7, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on January 19, 2021 The other day I came across a nice use case for a concept known as “higher-kinded data” that I thought was worth sharing. Higher-kinded data is a reasonably well-known concept in the Haskell world, but I haven’t seen many people talking about it in Scala. I’ll use a real-world example to explain the concept and show how it can be useful.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Local governments in the southwestern U.S. are putting up $150,000 to back what they say is a pioneering effort to “turn air into concrete at scale.” The funds will help cover the cost of the “reference project,” a collaboration between two climate tech startups and a masonry firm in Flagstaff, Arizona. The firms expect construction to kick off later this year, when the two startups install their tech within Block-Lite ‘s existing facility.

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Xebia

MARCH 7, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on February 8, 2022. Apache Spark is a hugely popular data engineering tool that accounts for a large segment of the Scala community. Every Spark release is tied to a specific Scala version, so a large subset of Scala users have little control over the Scala version they use because Spark dictates it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Late last month, Artifact , a personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, opened to the public. The launch was a surprise to many consumers, who wondered why the team behind one of the world’s most iconic social apps would return to startups to focus on one of the toughest areas instead: news. It’s an ecosystem where publishers are failing left and right and misinformation is rampant, as the founders surely saw themselves while working at Facebook.

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Xebia

MARCH 7, 2023

This article was originally published at 47deg.com on November 15, 2019. At Xebia, we love all functional languages, including the venerable Haskell. Haskell, as opposed to languages such as Scala or Kotlin, only provides functional constructs to programmers. It is not strange, thus, that many of the functional libraries in other languages (think of Cats , Scalaz , Arrow , and Bow ) are directly inspired by similar libraries coming from the Haskell ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross merchandise value , reach and market capitalization. That fact inevitably makes it a big part of how millions of brands and retailers sell goods online. Threecolts , a London startup founded by an ex-Amazon exec that builds software for brands and retailers to manage their Amazon sales channel, has picked up some 22,000 customers since it first set up shop in 2021.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 7, 2023

A survey of 2,500 C-level executives published today by Palo Alto Networks found 81% of organizations have embedded cybersecurity professionals within their DevOps teams. Despite the presence of those cybersecurity professionals, however, the survey also suggested there is much work to do in terms of optimizing DevSecOps workflows. A full 90% of organizations cannot detect, […] The post Survey: More Cybersecurity Pros Embedded in DevOps Teams appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

It takes a special kind of gumption to wake up in the morning and say ‘you know what? I can do better than Airbnb,’ but that’s what Andreas King-Geovanis did with Roami. The company added a $14 million of equity and venture debt, bringing its funding to a total of $29 million. The company used to be called Sextant Stays, and focuses on short-term rentals with apartment-style units.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 7, 2023

Even in an era of unprecedented tech layoffs, most companies are still eager to find and retain top software developer talent. What’s more, many firms are discovering that they lack direct insight into their development teams’ needs and priorities. As a result, some of them are struggling to keep their developers happy and thus productive. […] The post The Impact of Developer Happiness on Productivity appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

It appears that we have yet another SPAC meltdown on our hands. Embark, a maker of autonomous trucking software, has laid off most of its staff , intends to use its remaining employees to wind down its operations, and is working with its board to “to evaluate [its] options, including selling assets, restructuring the company or shutting down completely.” For a company that closed its blank-check combination back in late 2021 , it’s a stunning fall from grace.

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Perficient

MARCH 7, 2023

One key area that’s often overlooked with any branded manufacturer is the ability to service all personas and journeys within channels. Manufacturers have the unique job of needing to be just as close to their customers as they are to their distribution and retail partners. After all, they’re making the products that we as consumers use. However, this is even more important within the medical device industry as the products have a direct correlation to our health.

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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The hands of time are relentless, and so is the countdown to the biggest savings on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt — taking place September 19–21 in San Francisco. Here’s the thing: You have only four days left to save $1,000 on your pass. That bears repeating: Four days to save $1,000! Early action pays — embrace this save-now-go-later strategy. How to save $1,000 on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 You’ll save $1,000 on General Admission, Founder and Investor passes.

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MARCH 7, 2023

Life Moves Fast in the Cloud Did you know that 72% of organizations from around the world moved 30% or more of their workloads to the cloud in the last 12 months? More impressively, a quarter of these organizations moved upwards of 50% of their workloads. As our 2023 cloud-native security survey shows, life indeed moves fast in the cloud. Change also cycles rapidly, particularly with cloud-native application development, where everything from IP addresses to containers is ephemeral.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Do you have visions of Series A funding in your future? A lot of hard work and preparation goes into securing your first round of VC funding. Early-stage founders are no strangers to hard work — especially those who’ve raised their seed round. But Series A prep is a different beast altogether. And economic headwinds always make things more…interesting.

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Aqua Security

MARCH 7, 2023

Finally, the long-lasting “agentless vs. agent” debate is over. The inevitable result? If you want great cloud workload security, you need an agent. While many security professionals knew this from the start, plenty were misled into believing in the overhyped promise of agentless security. Why is this news? Because two of the leading agentless-only vendors finally gave in and announced partnerships with runtime agent-based and CWPP vendors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Matt Rogers , the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup that helps its customers turn their food scraps into farm feed. The former founder of Nest talked about what compelled him to jump back into entrepreneurship after years of investing, why he decided to focus on food waste, and how they built the startup’s closed-loop system.

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MARCH 7, 2023

How we experience the digital world is about to get a whole lot more exciting. The newest film in the “Near Future” series shows what a day in the life of a family looks like as technology transforms how they work, study and engage with each other. Imagine interacting with virtual people and places that feel real and propel you into new worlds. This is the future that the “Step Inside” film explores—and it’s not that far off.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Matheus Tavares Dos Santos Contributor Share on Twitter Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. In prior roles, he was an associate at a LatAm-focused venture capital firm and worked in corporate venture with regional banks and the Brazilian stock exchange. More posts by this contributor US-listed SPACs have a new target: Latin American tech companies Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage startups?

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