6 hours ago Groww pays $160M tax as it returns to India amid a startup relocation wave

Indian stock trading and mutual fund startup Groww paid $159.4 million in taxes as it shifted its domicile from the U.S. back to India, the company said in a statement on Monday. Nearly a dozen Indian startups are in the process of relocating their headquarters to India from the U.S. and Singapore to better comply […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 hours ago Scientists Are Mapping Landslide Risk in Alaska. Some Homeowners Don’t Want to Know.

Scientists Are Mapping Landslide Risk in Alaska. Some Homeowners Don’t Want to Know.  The New York Times

Science

6 hours ago DataCrunch wants to be Europe’s first AI cloud hyperscaler — powered by renewable energy

A fledgling startup is setting out to become one of Europe’s first “AI compute” hyperscalers, with renewable energy playing a pivotal part in its pitch to prospective customers. The AI goldrush has spurred unprecedented demand for “compute,” which refers to the processing power, infrastructure and resources needed for tasks such as running algorithms, executing machine […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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15 hours ago During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, cancer expert says 'survivor tsunami' is coming

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, patients and survivors are speaking out on how the treatment landscape is setting them up to not just survive, but to thrive.

Events

18 hours ago Women in AI: Marissa Hummon thinks AI will help make the power grid greener

This is part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved time in the spotlight. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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22 hours ago Can AI sandbag safety checks to sabotage users? Yes, but not very well — for now

AI companies claim to have robust safety checks in place that ensure that models don’t say or do weird, illegal, or unsafe stuff. But what if the models were capable of evading those checks and, for some reason, trying to sabotage or mislead users? Turns out they can do this, according to Anthropic researchers. Just […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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22 hours ago WATCH: Seattle Policeman Risks Life to Save Injured Man from Oncoming Train

Heart-pounding video shows police officers in Seattle, Washington, saving a man in the nick of time on October 7. The post WATCH: Seattle Policeman Risks Life to Save Injured Man from Oncoming Train appeared first on Breitbart.

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23 hours ago Gusto’s head of technology says hiring an army of specialists is the wrong approach to AI

As founders plan for an increasingly AI-centric future, Gusto co-founder and head of technology Edward Kim said that cutting existing teams and hiring a bunch of specially trained AI engineers is “the wrong way to go.” Instead, he argued that non-technical team members can “actually have a much deeper understanding than an average engineer on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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25 hours ago Joseph Jacks bets on open source startups, a ‘paradox of philanthropy and capitalism’

Open source might be many things, but one thing it’s not is a business model — by most estimations, at least. However, that hasn’t stopped Joseph Jacks and OSS Capital from seeking some of the earliest-stage, open source startups and funding them through their formative years. These include the likes of open source Qualtrics-alternative Formbricks, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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