Technology

Copper is critical to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The metal is an excellent conductor of electricity, used in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines. But by the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency expects copper supplies to drop to 20% of demand. A surreptitiously operating startup thinks it can … Read more

Europe doesn’t have many big language model makers (LLMs), but one of those rare AI beasts – Germany’s Aleph Alpha – seems to be getting ready to drop out of the race, according to Bloomberg, which has an interview with the CEO Jonas Andrulis on his. pivot to a broader generative AI support game. The … Read more

At its best, programming is a creative endeavor, but in this age of transforming everything else, much of a developer’s day is filled with what All Hands AI co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan calls the “work-oriented key” such as writing unit tests. , dependency management and keeping the documentation up to date. AI, on the … Read more

Software documentation—the resources that explain how software works and how to use it—has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plain text, today’s documents are more interactive and user-friendly than they used to be. But the creation of them is still a lake of time. Han … Read more

Vay, a startup that made a teleoperated breakthrough in car-sharing in Berlin and Las Vegas, is expanding into commercial and business-to-business services supported by recent deals with French carmaker Peugeot and Belgium-based Poppy. Vay is not a traditional ride-hailing or car-sharing startup, nor does it operate a robotaxi service. Yet when customers in Las Vegas … Read more

First announced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, Google Photos’ AI-based search feature, “Ask Photos,” rolled out to users starting Thursday. The feature, which allows users to ask AI to find photos with more complex questions, will initially be available in “early access” to select customers in the US before expanding to a larger … Read more

The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of images of synthetic nudes that resemble real people. On Thursday, Microsoft took a big step to give victims of revenge porn a tool to prevent their Bing search engine from returning these images. Microsoft has announced a partnership … Read more

For more than two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the day-to-day working capital needs of his family business, sesame seed exporter Dhaval Agri. It was an agreement that basically worked: the company grew to have a share of 13% of the country’s total exports, making it the largest exporter of sesame … Read more