Kyle Wiggers News Today

Recent news events are making people wonder if they can trust those selling AI products to be the ones to define responsible AI.

It has been a year and a half now since the first Large Language Model (LLM) AI app was introduced to the public in November of 2022, with the release of Microsoft's ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI. Google, Elon Musk, and many others have also now developed or are in the process of developing their own versions of these AI programs, but after 18 months now, the #1 problem for these LLM AI programs remains the fact that they still lie and make stuff up when asked questions too difficult for the...

Brazilian startup Salvy, a mobile carrier for businesses, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator's latest batch, the accelerator confirmed to TechCrunch.

Thus far they have interviewed folks like Irene Solaiman, head of global policy at Hugging Face, Sarah Kreps, professor of government at Cornell, and Heidy Khlaaf, safety engineering director at Trail of Bits. Don't forget that the Equity crew run interviews often in addition to our regular programming which comes out Monday (a weekly kick-off show), Wednesday (our startups-focused news rundown), and Friday (our roundtable discussion of the biggest news from the week).

Billed as the ultimate code generator Hugging Face and its mates ServiceNow and Nvidia have cooked up StarCoder 2, an open-source code generator that...

Some thoughts on AI aesthetics, the challenge of uninsurability, and how to pitch a biotech startup to non-experts.

After a year of people throwing money at AI companies, investors are now looking for startups that are more solid and viable.

CES 2024 has begun in Las Vegas, and we're keeping track of the biggest reveals from press day as a wave of AI and hardware news is revealed.

Enterprises looking to capitalize on the generative AI boom and get in early would do well to check out the GPT Builder and GPT Store now.

These articles deliver perspectives on the evolution of the technology landscape in 2023 and the roles of the leaders guiding the way.