Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Even tech giant Apple couldn’t prevent its artificial intelligence from making things up. “The models are not failing,” says Maria De-Arteaga, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Three years lets things settle. We will be able to see the future more clearly.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls “responsible generative AI.” This includes a new ChatGPT app for Slack , promising conversation summaries and writing assistance directly inside the enterprise communications app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Over the past few years, community has been a buzzword for tech startups looking to sell a product or service based on their definition of a useful network. He said that the app’s early hype saw it grow 10x in users month over month, a boom that broke a lot of the underlying infrastructure of the app.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Big Tech Inc. Basically, it’s Uber’s attempt to follow the Instacart model, which is working well for the incumbent grocery delivery company,” she reports. Choo choo : Natasha L has an additional morsel from Mobile World Congress, writing that the “ metaverse hype was hanging like a multicolored fog.” You can sign up here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Despite Nonprofit Tech for Good being active on Instagram for nearly 10 years and having over 70,000 followers, our application for verification is repeatedly denied. Then, in 2022, contact Nonprofit Tech for Good and let us know how it worked!

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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. Still, people were mad.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. On one hand, emulating the virtual worlds of Snow Crash or Ready Player One is less deliberately creepy than naming your tech initiative “Skynet” or your nutrient shake after Soylent Green.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Open Data November 8, 2007 As the hype (which, I agree I have contributed to ) around OpenSocial dies down, the reality behind OpenSocial becomes clear. TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Given the hype around generative AI, it’s easy to forget that IBM Watson competed on “Jeopardy” in 2011 — and won a $1 million first-place prize. For years, enterprise software companies have baked this tech into their offerings , such as Salesforce’s Einstein and Microsoft Cortana.

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Candid

AUGUST 10, 2023

While the tech sector pours in tens of billions in a race for dominance and future profits, how should nonprofits and philanthropists be thinking about our role? Before we get completely swept up, let’s not forget the previous technology hype cycles that have come and gone. has likely put it near the peak of the hype cycle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They did skip last year’s holiday party and used the money for charity , launched the tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program , and offered free advertising to a couple of nonprofits working to end cyberbulling to get out of launching an “Alert Button&#. There is some ROI, but there is also a lot hype about Facebook.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The hype around ChatGPT , OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, hasn’t reached a peak yet. ” That new ventures are jumping on the ChatGPT hype train isn’t surprising, considering ChatGPT’s virality. There’s Writer , which deploys home-cooked AI text models to power up enterprise copy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

In essence, Auto-GPT uses the versatility of OpenAI’s latest AI models to interact with software and services online, allowing it to “autonomously” perform tasks like X and Y. But as we are learning with large language models, this capability seems to be as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle , Kyle reports. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

There may be less of a hype premium attached to Mobileye when it does list. Still, the company does have good growth and operating income attached to a very, very high-tech product, so there is good reason to expect the company to have material value.” ” Intel’s plan to free Mobileye brings welcome IPO heat check.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Buyout firm Bain Capital just closed its second growth Tech Opportunities fund with $2.4 But when an idea originates in a lab — whether it’s AI, biotech, robotics or another deep tech research project — things quickly become tougher and much more expensive. Big Tech Inc. billion , up from the $1.3 It wasn’t me : Security breach?

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Tech has never been more newsworthy. The venture capitalist was one of many at an AI confab last month, but he — and many others — has not yet made a new AI investment during the current hype cycle. In my next role, I’ll be covering the same beat and the same city, focusing on deeply researched feature pieces and scoops. It’s been fun.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

And in turn, global tech companies have increasingly turned their focus to the AI-powered smart glasses market in recent years. Since ChatGPT ignited an AI arms race, tech companies have invested tens of billions of dollars in data centers and semiconductors to support large language models. Why AI glasses?

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

We’ve seen the rise of companies like Dozer, Reno Run and Toolbox try to address this, but often the model is closer to a vertical integration rather than something more open. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

If you’re new to WiR, it’s the newsletter where TechCrunch recaps the week in tech that was. Brian reports that the $2,595 Omni One features some upgrades to Virtuix’s original, limited-production-run model, including a new tethering arm, and comes bundled with a customized Pico Neo 3 headset. We all are.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

No one can accuse the category of being a hype bubble. It hasn’t entered the hype cycle the way things like crypto and generative AI have. But with the growth of multi-modal AI models, we see a huge opportunity for robotics to become multipurpose because these models enable common sense and require little training.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the team kept winning, W+K kept hyping the connectionacross social media and IRL by turning the Empire State Building purple, and sending Grimace on the 7 train ahead of a playoff game. For longtime client Nike, W+K effectively tapped into the incredible waves of hype surrounding Caitlin Clarks final season of NCAA basketball.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Airstream eStream concept by Thor Industries — being towed by a Tesla Model X | Image: Thor Industries. As with all concepts, it remains to be seen when and if the eStream camper and the Thor Vision vehicle reach production — so don’t get too hyped about having that all-electric off-grid lifestyle just yet.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

The long-awaited re-correction of private tech startup valuations and fundraising expectations has a web3-sized asterisk next to it. So, is it hype, the promise of innovation in crypto, or a little bit of both? These business models focus on the token but use the equity as a transition structure,” Matta said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

million, from 65 health-tech and consumer-tech investors, taking its total raised to $5 million. 3 golden rules for health tech entrepreneurs. And we think this approach is far more powerful than the old-school ‘health app’ model of just telling you to ‘walk 10,000 steps’ or whatever.”. Meanwhile, the U.K.-based

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

As a geek who is trying to apply tech for good, it is instructive to hear the critiques. He seems to define social entrepreneurs as rapacious for-profit businesspeople who are modeling “themselves on the Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.” It’s on the last one that Toyama makes his biggest error.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The merge, announced yesterday, will create a company that combines FluroSat’s data-driven agriculture management services with Dagan’s soil biogeochemical modeling technology, the companies said in a joint statement. . Space tech startup ConstellR, which can monitor land surface temperatures, raises €1M pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Email is what Flowrite’s AI models have been trained on, per Isosaari. And while GPT-3 does have models for some other common languages, Isosaari suggests the quality of its ‘human-like’ responses there “might not be as good” as they are in English — hence he says they’ll remain focused there for now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

As a 2020 Wall Street Journal piece points out, while computer-aided software became the norm in the ’70s and ’80s, it wasn’t until 2002 that 3D modeling arrived with Autodesk’s purchase of building information modeling (BIM) software vendor Revit. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

In that paper, Insilco’s deep learning model was able to identify potential compounds in just 21 days. . The whole field of AI-based novel targets has been experiencing significant hype. In 2019 Nature noted that at least 20 partnerships between major drug companies and AI drug discovery tech companies had been reported.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

We have a packed newsletter today, so get hype for a news digest. Twitter tries to restore service in Russia : While some tech companies are working to cut ties with Russia after the country’s government invaded Ukraine, others are trying to keep their services up in the country. has a neat model to help folks hire tech talent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

“At the heart of what we’re doing is building AI models that can help automate work that used to be manual,” said Kevin Guo, Hive’s co-founder and CEO. ” Hive’s models help bring structure to that other work, and Guo claims they provide “near human level accuracy.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

After a Tahoe-based tech conference, Sheel Mohnot, the fintech investor behind Better Tomorrow Ventures, is beatboxing in his head — all day, every day. And while it may feel like an uncommon takeaway from an event featuring the who’s who in tech that was precisely the point. It is currently in limited preview.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

But now, Amazon is hyping a restock of the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition on Twitter, one set for Wednesday, March 30th, at 11AM ET / 8AM PT. It may be thought of as the lesser model of Sony’s PS5 offerings, but it saves $100 by eschewing the disc drive. The PS5 Digital Edition runs $399.99

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

It’s that time of week again — the time for Week in Review , where we recap the past five days in tech news. most read ChatGPT in API form: OpenAI introduced an API that’ll allow any business to build ChatGPT tech into their apps, websites, products and services. (As TGIF, my TechCrunch homies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

and as a result figured that a model that proved it could actually make money would have a better chance to raise going forward,” he says. With all the hype around drones and autonomous vehicles, Robert says that people forget or don’t understand that the delivery business, particularly last-mile, is still a people business.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Abodu operates with an asset-light model, and doesn’t own any factories. Naturally, the company’s investors are bullish on the company’s business model. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. Instead, it has built a network of factory “partners” across the Western U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

I’m learning the ropes of Week in Review to make sure y’all stay up to date with the latest in tech. Few seem eager to leave tech altogether — but they’re certainly more cynical than they used to be. Few seem eager to leave tech altogether — but they’re certainly more cynical than they used to be.

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