Matt Higgins was at ground zero within hours of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Higgins, who was at the time working as Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s press secretary, saw the rubble—and the rebuilding—firsthand.
Twenty-three years later, Higgins gets that same feeling of unease when he looks at the
Box removes its enterprise AI query limits and announces new GPT-4o-powered feature
Box announced today it is removing limits to the number of AI queries its Enterprise Plus users can perform. The content cloud company also said it’ll soon offer enterprises the ability to use AI to search through the images and spreadsheets they store in the cloud.
Box’s AI services are built atop OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 generative AI models, which Box accesses via a
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The AI industry assures corporate America it’ll “ground” AI models in reality
Consumer generative A
Globally, one in three women—or 736 million people—have experienced violence of some sort, whether from an intimate partner, sexual assault, or both. Much of that offline violence is linked to online habits, according to a new report from Dutch NGO Rutgers, which was launched today at the Human Rights Council in Genev
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video, and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector’s first trade group, they said on Wednesday.
The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) will advocate for “ethical data sourcing” in the training of AI systems, including rights for people depicted in datasets, and the protection of content owners’ intellectual property rights, the companies said in a statement.
Amid climate change and rising waters, Floodbase is seeking to use space data to streamline the flood insurance process, reducing the load for insurers and getting money into people’s hands for damages more quickly.
Origin story
Floodbase cofounders Beth Tellman and Bessie Schwarz met while pursuing a master’s degree at Yale around the same time as Hurricane Sandy doused the East Coast, leading to record flooding.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Biden administration Wednesday in a case concerning whether the government’s efforts to pressure tech platforms to moderate users’ content—a practice often called “jawboning”—violated the First Amendment.
In the 6-3 majority opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that th
In a sense, Figma has been in the presentation software business for years—just not on purpose.
The company’s namesake product is a web-based design platform optimized for prototyping user interfaces, not assembling and conducting slideshows. Nonetheless, plenty of users commandeered it for that purpose. In just the past 12 months, users have created 3.5 million slide files, the company says.
The Taycan, Porsche’s first electric vehicle, hit the market in 2019. Now, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is recalling over 31,000 Taycans, dating back to the car’s premiere date. The issue focuses on the vehicle’s front brakes, which for about 5% of Porsche Taycan drivers are at risk of losing all functionality.
What is the reason for the recall?
The NHTSA determined
