As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the new “Web” filter that appears at the top of the results page, users will be...
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the news in a post on X Tuesday evening. “This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our...
In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google's Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
America now has 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, but with US automakers struggling to compete and its reliance on China’s materials, will this help? Mercedes, BMW and VW think not....
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the “hard work” of counting...
Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google’s new upgrades to Gemini and Circle to Search offer a look at how the operating system might change and revolve around artificial intelligence....
Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits and adjustments to already-generated footage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In addition to the body of the emails themselves, the feature will also be able to analyze attachments, like PDFs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The summaries are created based on Gemini's analysis of insights from Google Maps’ community of more than 300 million contributors. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google says that over 100,000 developers already tried the service. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google is rethinking its most iconic and lucrative product by adding new AI features to search. One expert tells WIRED it’s “a change in the world order.”...
The system effectively listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in-real time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The standard Gemma models were only available in 2 billion and 7 billion parameter versions, making this quite a step up. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
This is a great example of a company using generative AI to open its software to more users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Firebase Genkit is an open source framework that enables developers to quickly build AI into new and existing applications. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google's Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars....
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes "Slack channel fatigue," he says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes "Slack channel fatigue," he says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Crunchbase. On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially...
The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse....
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline jobs, which might be anything from customer service and healthcare to retail environments and hospitality....
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline jobs, which might be anything from customer service and healthcare to retail environments and hospitality....
Maad, a B2B e-commerce startup based in Senegal, has secured $3.2 million debt-equity funding to bolster its growth in the western Africa country and to explore fresh opportunities in the wider Francophone region. The seed round was led by Ventures Platform, with participation from Seedstars...