March 3, 2025
AI

Generative AI and Civic Institutions | Towards Data Science

Different sectors, different goals Recent events have got me thinking about AI as it relates to our civic institutions — think government, education, public libraries, and so on. We often forget that civic and governmental organizations are inherently deeply different from private companies and profit-making enterprises. They exist to enable people to live their best lives, protect people’s rights, and make opportunities accessible, even if (especially if) this work doesn’t have immediate monetary returns. The

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Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 3, 2025
Software

AI: An Agent For Dark Web Monitoring | HackerNoon

Online privacy is one of the most prominent reasons for debate. Between serious offenses like personal data leaks from banks or insurance companies and smaller instances like annoying calls from salespeople conveniently offering you a service you need, feeling like your information is protected has never been more important. That’s not even considering dangerous situations like credit card theft. We are constantly reminded that we are monitored, and eventually, we realize that even the bots

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Dmitry Mishunin March 3, 2025

Insomniac’s VR titles delisted, casting a shadow over the technology

Before they became tied to the Spider-Man series of games and subsequently acquired to become a part of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, Burbank-based Insomniac Games dabbled in VR titles like The Edge of Nowhere and Stormland. Now these titles and more have been removed without explanation, suggesting that the VR software market and perhaps the technology as a whole has still not figured out its gaming expansion questions. Insomniac’s portfolio absence was noticed by journalist Dominic

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Imran Khan March 3, 2025
Software

Unreasonable Goals Are Actually Easier to Achieve: Here’s Why | HackerNoon

“Be realistic.” How many times have you heard that bullshit? Every time you’ve shared an ambitious dream, someone has probably hit you with those two dream-killing words. Your parents when you said you wanted to be an astronaut. Your guidance counselor when you aimed for an Ivy League school. Your friends when you talked about starting a business. Your partner when you mentioned quitting your job to pursue your passion. They all say it with

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Scott D. Clary March 3, 2025

Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7 | TechCrunch

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which will be held in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley. There’s just one catch: You have to apply by this Friday,

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TechCrunch Events March 3, 2025

Cut IC Development Time With Shift-Left DRC

03 Mar 2025 3 min read Siemens EDA’s new shift-left verification strategy is a game-changer for early IC design stages. Siemens EDA The most successful semiconductor companies know that the increasing complexity of integrated circuit (IC) designs is straining our traditional design rule checking (DRC) methods. The iterative “construct by correction” approach that worked well for simpler, custom layouts is now creating substantial runtime and resource bottlenecks, hindering design teams’ ability to efficiently verify their

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John Ferguson March 3, 2025
AI

LLM + RAG: Creating an AI-Powered File Reader Assistant | Towards Data Science

Introduction AI is everywhere.  It is hard not to interact at least once a day with a Large Language Model (LLM). The chatbots are here to stay. They’re in your apps, they help you write better, they compose emails, they read emails…well, they do a lot. And I don’t think that that is bad. In fact, my opinion is the other way – at least so far. I defend and advocate for the use of

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Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 3, 2025
AR/VR

Less is more: How ‘chain of draft’ could cut AI costs by 90% while improving performance

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A team of researchers at Zoom Communications has developed a breakthrough technique that could dramatically reduce the cost and computational resources needed for AI systems to tackle complex reasoning problems, potentially transforming how enterprises deploy AI at scale. The method, called chain of draft (CoD), enables large language models (LLMs) to solve problems with minimal words

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Michael Nuñez March 3, 2025

Exclusive: Ramp has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $700 million

Fintech startup Ramp has crossed $700 million in annualized revenue as of January of this year, according to a source familiar with the company’s internal operations. The company had crossed $100 million in annualized revenue before its third birthday in March 2022, passed $300 million by August 2023, and now effectively more than doubled that in less than 18 months.  While Ramp has not formally released its revenue numbers, CEO and co-founder Eric Glyman told TechCrunch

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Mary Ann Azevedo March 3, 2025