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Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year and growing. Earlier this year, mass workforce reductions were driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups across many sectors also […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The Tesla Cybertruck, the first of which will be delivered Thursday four years after its debut, is loved and loathed. For fans, it’s a symbol for what Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk stand for: creativity, irreverence, rebellion. Others see it as an act of hubris. It could be both. Either way, the stakes are […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models and finding ways to constrain the answers that a model could give is one way to apply some control to these powerful technologies. Today, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS CEO […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Elon Musk is hyping the imminent release of his ChatGPT competitor Grok, yet another example of how his entire personality is just itself a biological LLM made by ingesting all of Reddit and 4chan. Grok already seems patterned in many ways off of the worst of Elon’s indulgences, with the sense of humor of a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, is on the verge of shutting down after reaching unicorn status last year, according to multiple reports. Calcalist reported on Sunday that the company – which raised $600 million in total, $400 million of which was secured in March of 2022 – has to shut down after […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A lot of the buzz these days in artificial intelligence is around generative AI and how AI is being used to accelerate software and products for consumers. Today, a AI startup called PhysicsX, co-founded by two theoretical physicists — including a Formula One engineering superstar — is emerging from stealth with a very specific focus […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Anil Goel, the CTO of Byju’s, is leaving the edtech giant, he informed some colleagues amid a broader restructuring at the Bengaluru-headquartered startup as it looks to pare down costs and unify many of its businesses. Jiny Thattil is replacing Goel as the CTO, according to an internal communication. Goel, a former Amazon executive, was […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.