TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Training, communication, and change management are the real enablers. For this reason Sicca has been involved in information and training activities on the new method, even if there are cases in which resistance remains. The entire project is accompanied by training on the methodology and the new cultural approach.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

Peak demand for developers from early 2019 to early 2020 was driven in part by hype cycles catered to their strengths, as many companies gobbled up programmers to work on applications in support of clouding computing, mobile, and IoT strategies. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. The training has to result in behavioral change and be habit-forming.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The market for corporate training, which Allied Market Research estimates is worth over $400 billion, has grown substantially in recent years as companies realize the cost savings in upskilling their workers. By creating what Agley calls “knowledge spaces” rather than linear training courses. ” Image Credits: Obrizum.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. Pursuit is building a model for job training that mitigates both these risks. return on it, paying it pack in full plus earnings in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Reentering society after years in prison is difficult for many reasons, among which perhaps the most prosaic is simply that it’s hard to get a job — and what training and transition programs exist are far from sufficient. “There’s already money for training, but it’s under-utilized,” explained Saruhashi.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Data is essential for AI training, and AI companies often gather valuable information through web scraping. The AI training and copyright question has been top of mind for many site owners and publishers as genAI has rapidly evolved over the last two years. To license, to walk away, or something in between?

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. Balancing the rollout with proper training, adoption, and careful measurement of costs and benefits is essential, particularly while securing company assets in tandem, says Ted Kenney, CIO of tech company Access.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Aquarium is a machine learning data management system that helps people improve model performance by improving the data that it’s trained on, which is usually the most important part of making the model work in production,” Gao told me. Aquarium aims to solve this issue. The Aquarium team. Datasaur snags $3.9M

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

For example, attacks like the SolarWinds and Kaseya incidents that happened in 2020 and 2021 that impacted many entities across the globe show how hackers can inject malicious code into software updates, affecting thousands of organizations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. In 2020, Yusuf toyed with the idea of building a physical campus where he and his team would train software engineers to get international opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says. The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

In 2020, Workrise laid off one-quarter of its corporate employees as the industry took an even bigger hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. Its gross revenue has tripled since 2018, going from just under $300 million to about $900 million to close out 2020. That number jumped to 15,000 in 2020. Fetcher raises $6.5M wind industry. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Scale, whose army of humans annotate raw data to train self-driving and other AI systems, nabs $18M. Today, the startup has 200 employees across the globe and more than 10,000 data labelers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

While last year’s lockdown has impacted carpooling, it shouldn’t be compared with trains or flights. Car is and will be the universal connector that doesn’t rely on train stations or bus stops,” Brusson said. In 2020 alone, BlaBlaCar had 50 million passengers across 22 markets overall. Or it could mix carpooling with bus rides.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

However, training and recruitment can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for companies, a heavy investment that is hard to explain during volatile times. Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Transfr’s core technology is its software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Image Credits: OpenAI The live web is less curated than a static training data set and — by implication — less filtered, of course. In 2020, Pinterest leveraged a quirk of Google’s image search algorithm to surface more of its content in Google Image searches, according to The New Yorker.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But what makes Whisper different, according to OpenAI, is that it was trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and “multitask” data collected from the web, which lead to improved recognition of unique accents, background noise and technical jargon. ” Whisper has its limitations, particularly in the area of text prediction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

We believe that practical skills training, a supportive global community and career development programs can give everyone, regardless of their education or employment history, the ability to write their stories through technology,” said Quiñones. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Our competitors either focus on basic tools that only allow a small range of creative freedom, or they take a lot of training and practice to get good at.” ” Kittl started out as Heritage Type, founded by Heymann and Tobias Saul in 2020, but went on to rebrand after raising a €1.6 million Seed round in October 2021.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

You may be unfamiliar with the name, but Norma Group products are used wherever pipes are connected and liquids are conveyed, from water supply and irrigation systems in vehicles, trains and aircraft, to agricultural machinery and buildings. And finally, Security First that revolves around an automation concept and dedicated SOC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The introduction of GPT-3 in 2020 was a tipping point for artificial intelligence. OpenAI researchers first released the paper introducing GPT-3 in May 2020, and what started out as some nifty use cases on Twitter has quickly become a hotbed of startup activity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mostaque co-founded and bootstrapped Stability AI in 2020, motivated both by a personal fascination with AI and what he characterized as a lack of “organization” within the open source AI community. But Mostaque has repeatedly asserted that the company’s R&D will enable it to train models more efficiently going forward.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

This round values the startup, which was founded in January 2020, at $11 million post-money. ” In January 2020, Terry quit her job and started ChargerHelp. Terry said they have also hired their core team of seven employees and trained their first tranche of technicians. The company said it has raised $2.75 Hiring approach.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. Still, while it might present a problem to other companies, Emetarom says the company has no issue training promising junior talent to grow in expertise. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Henry has created an online computer science school that trains software developers from low-income backgrounds to understand technical skills and get employed. Beyond technical training, Henry gives participants job coaching, resume workshops and up-skilling opportunities post-graduation. Equity Dive: Edtech’s 2020 wakeup call.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

But Stacey Hronowski — co-founder and CEO of Canix, the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2020 — describes it best. The rigorous training was specific and tailored to our individual business and presentation. I was particularly impressed with the Q&A training. Our experience in Startup Battlefield was excellent.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

billion in 2020, increasing 22.4% Riiid has been actively penetrating the global market since 2020 after it opened the U.S. Riiid provides AI-based online education solutions for K-12, post-secondary and corporate training. The Japanese remote learning industry was estimated at $2.6 How is edtech spending its extra capital?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

As a result, categories that make up productivity infrastructure — cloud communications services, API platforms, low-code development tools, business process automation and AI software development kits — grew exponentially in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Liteboxer launched publicly to the world in July of 2020, announcing an in-home device that brings gamification, hit music and a touch of entertainment to a boxing workout. For $29/month, users get access to unlimited training sessions and workouts led by Liteboxer trainers. Content is a big piece of the puzzle with Liteboxer.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Startups have also benefited from tailored product/service collaborations, such as: Roadie and The Home Depot : Roadie expanded same-day delivery services to more than 1,300 Home Depot stores in 2020, leveraging its CVC partnership to scale operations during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) had received about 10,000 applications directed to artificial intelligence, and by 2020, that number reached about 80,000 applications, of which 77% were approved. In fact, the USPTO even issued guidance for eligibility that gave an example of training a neural network. In 2000, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

LatticeFlow , a startup that was spun out of Zurich’s ETH in 2020, helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves. LatticeFlow uncovers a bias in data for training car damage inspection AI models. Image Credits: LatticeFlow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

billion in the same period of 2020. That is 226% growth in 2020 thus far… How high-quality is DoorDash’s revenue? In the first three quarters of 2019, the company had gross margins of 39.9%, and in the same period of 2020 the figure rose to 53.1%, a huge improvement for the consumer consumable delivery confab.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“[W]e’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created.” And several teams, including our founding team members, trained Transformers that can write code. billion in 2020 to $19.6 billion by 2026.

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