Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable....
05 março, 2025
Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently
Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures,...
05 março, 2025
Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website
Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden Administration in 2023 to promote safe and “trustworthy” AI. The commitments, which included pledges to share information on managing AI risks across industry and government and research...
05 março, 2025
Is Silicon Valley still the best place for startups? Insight Partners’ Ryan Hinkle doesn’t think so
“Silicon Valley is not a necessary and sufficient condition for success—it’s just one option,” says Ryan Hinkle, challenging the long-held belief that the Bay Area is the ultimate startup hub. Hinkle is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, the giant New York-based venture capital firm...
05 março, 2025
Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups
If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse. Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are useless, despite the promises of generative AI. Social media algorithms boost rage-bait to...
05 março, 2025
AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments. Andrew G. Barto, a professor emeritus at the University...
05 março, 2025
Google’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothing
On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of a new AI image feature for its Shopping tab, designed to help users find clothing items they envision by allowing them to search using their own words. The company is also expanding its AR beauty and virtual try-on...
05 março, 2025
Apply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before time runs out
Are you a leader in the AI space? Make your voice heard as a TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, you can help shape what’s next in the AI industry — and share your expertise with 1,200 AI founders, investors, and industry pioneers....
05 março, 2025
GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-language
A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to humans, has gone viral on social media over the past week. The project, called GibberLink, was created by two Meta software engineers...
05 março, 2025
Experts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’
Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge, but experts think it — and tools like it — fall well...
05 março, 2025
U.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigation
Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. The full text of the decision will be published shortly,...
05 março, 2025
Airplanes of the Future Could Be Fitted with Feather-Like Flaps
Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency....
05 março, 2025
ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia
The SoftBank-backed chipmaker has signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to bolster the country's chip design ecosystem. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
05 março, 2025
Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award
Having machines learn from experience was once considered a dead end. It's now critical to artificial intelligence, and work in the field has won two men the highest honor in computer science....
05 março, 2025
From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists,...
05 março, 2025
CoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & Biases
Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 billion on the transaction. Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25 billion in 2023, and it recently filed for an IPO....
05 março, 2025
CoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AI
EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company that builds eco-friendly data centers used by major compute providers to handle their AI traffic, has raised nearly half a billion dollars — $478 million (€450 million) to be exact — in anticipation of more demand. The equity funding, which is...
05 março, 2025
Meta brings its anti-fraud facial recognition test to the UK after getting a thumbs up from regulators
Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition — an area where it has had a tricky track record — with an international test of two new tools: one to stop scams based on likenesses of famous people, and a second...
05 março, 2025
Defense tech startup Epirus raises $250M Series D to counter drone swarms
Defense tech startup Epirus has raised a $250m Series D to expand its counter-drone solutions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
05 março, 2025
Quantexa nabs $175M at a $2.6B valuation to double down on data analytics for AI
London startup Quantexa has made its name over the years with an enterprise platform that employs AI and data analytics to fight money laundering and fraud. Today, it is announcing new funding of $175 million to double down on that business while also moving deeper...
05 março, 2025
Key ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright case
Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of OpenAI’s key AI technologies, has been subpoenaed in a copyright case against the AI startup, according to a court filing Tuesday. The filing, submitted by an attorney for the plaintiffs to the U.S. District Court in...
04 março, 2025
Judge rejects Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition
A federal judge in Northern California denied Elon Musk’s motion for an injunction that would have halted OpenAI’s planned transition into a for-profit company, Bloomberg reported. Musk failed to provide enough evidence necessary for an injunction, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled Tuesday....
04 março, 2025
Aspiration co-founder and board member defrauded investors of $145M, prosecutors say
The fintech startup has been under federal scrutiny for years for questionable financial and carbon accounting practices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
04 março, 2025
How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt Key Industries in Mexico
The imposition of tariffs on Mexico and Canada represents a violation of the USMCA and could trigger a tariff war, experts say....
04 março, 2025
Amazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI group
Amazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, systems that help people automate parts of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an email to staff seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman said agentic AI has the potential to...
04 março, 2025
Trump Still Considering Tariffs on Taiwanese Chips, Despite $100 Billion TSMC Deal
Enforcing the tariffs on Taiwan would be difficult, and they wouldn’t necessarily be enough to meaningfully increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, experts told WIRED....
04 março, 2025
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting....
04 março, 2025
Klarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AI
The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about a year ago in favor of its own homegrown AI system. But this time, Sebastian Siemiatkowski emphasized that he doesn’t think...
04 março, 2025
Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model
Amazon reportedly wants to get in on the AI “reasoning” model game. According to Business Insider, Amazon is developing an AI model that incorporates advanced “reasoning” capabilities, similar to models like OpenAI’s o3-mini and Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s R1. The model may launch as soon...
04 março, 2025
Google still limits how Gemini answers political questions
While several of Google’s rivals, including OpenAI, have tweaked their AI chatbots to discuss politically sensitive subjects in recent months, Google appears to be embracing a more conservative approach. When asked to answer certain political questions, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini, often says it “can’t help...
04 março, 2025
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