Groq Inc’s AI chip delivers blistering 800 tokens/sec inference on Meta’s LLaMA 3 model, potentially reshaping the landscape of AI hardware.Read More
Validating consumer demand is a crucial step for any startup, and TechCrunch Early Stage is offering a golden opportunity to learn how to do it right. Peter Gladstone, senior adviser for startups at Harvard Innovation Labs, is set to lead an engaging roundtable titled “Validating Consumer Demand: How to Make the Most of Your Expertise.” With decades of experience as an entrepreneur, marketer, and investor, Gladstone brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Having
New Story by Stakh Vozniak3mApril 19th, 2024 Too Long; Didn’t Read Stakh Vozniak, co-founder and CEO at Cargofy, at Iowa 80 Truckstop. Trucks move roughly 71% of the nation’s freight by weight, from iPhones to aspirin and toilet paper. The industry employs 8.5 million U.S. citizens.
The removal of WhatsApp and Threads from Apple’s China App Store puts this revenue stream at risk, as it may signal further restrictions on Meta’s ability to capture advertising dollars from Chinese companies looking to expand globally.Read More
Listen to this article Intuitive placed eight of its next-generation da Vinci 5 systems in the first quarter of 2024. | Source: Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical Inc. yesterday posted first-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street’s consensus forecast while increasing its forecast for full-year procedure growth. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based surgical robotics leader reported profits of $545 million, or $1.51 per diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2024, up 53% from the first quarter
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. After years of booming growth, the AI industry is now experiencing a significant slowdown in investment, as detailed in a recent report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). The report highlights a notable decrease in both private and corporate investments in the AI sector
Capcom has let us know that there’s a big patch coming for Dragon’s Dogma 2, but it has disappointed a good number of players who were hoping that the well-publicized performance issues affecting the game might be addressed. Sadly, smoothing over the wrinkles regarding performance hitches – and serious slowdowns in some areas of the game – is not part of the plan for the update coming later this month. Instead, there are various gameplay
Midas, a fintech startup that allows people in Turkey to invest in U.S. and Turkish equities, says it has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Portage of Canada. The startup is aimed at Turkey’s retail investor market and claims to have more than 2 million users. Its pitch is that it charges significantly lower transaction and commission fees for Turkish customers who want to invest in U.S. or Turkish stocks. It also
Geodesic.Life, a Ukraine-based startup, is challenging the traditional notions of housing by introducing affordable, eco-friendly prefabricated dome homes. This concept addresses two pressing global concerns: the need for accessible housing and the urgency of environmental preservation. By normalizing sustainable living practices, Geodesic aims to make a positive impact on both individuals and the planet. The company just closed a small, $500,000 friends and family round to bring its vision to life. The startup’s dome homes
Securing your server has never been easier. Here, I’ll show how I set up a firewall and lockdown the whole server for anyone to access. iptables will be the firewall for any incoming traffic, but what do you do with the ports you might want to be open sometimes, for some people? You can use knockd, where a special sequence will open the port for just that IP address. Firewall using iptables First, make a