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System of intelligence — generative AI at the app layer
As generative AI shapes the next generation of application products, we can expect even more sweeping evolution.
Robotics Q&A with Boston Dynamics’ Aaron Saunders
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics.
Do you believe in job after job?
People moving on to new jobs is not a bad thing — and not only when they have been laid off.
The possibility of regulation hangs on the horizon over generative AI
While it’s easy to get lost in the hype of generative AI, you have to remember there could be a big governance piece coming.
Relevance AI’s low-code platform enables businesses to build AI teams
Many companies already use generative AI tools, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can help improve workers’ performance by as much as 40% compared with workers who don’t use it.
A spectral device using Generative AI could detect bad microbes in food factories in real time
The factories which process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all get very ill, to be blunt.
Hyperplane wants to bring AI to banks
Hyperplane, a San Francisco-based startup that is building foundation models to help banks predict customer behavior, is coming out of stealth today by…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm.
OpenAI thinks superhuman AI is coming — and wants to build tools to control it
While investors were preparing to go nuclear after Sam Altman’s unceremonious ouster from OpenAI and Altman was plotting his return to the company, the members of OpenAI’s Superalignment team were assiduously plugging along on the problem of how to control AI that’s smarter than humans.
a16z will give literally any politician money if they help deregulate tech
Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has announced its intent to begin lobbying the U.
AI plushie Grok, voiced by Grimes, was trademarked before Elon Musk’s Grok
Grimes is stepping into the toy business with “Grok,” a character that she voiced for Curio’s new line of screen-free AI plushies.
Robotics Q&A with UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics.
Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard
Sometimes it’s important to state the obvious.
OpenAI buffs safety team and gives board veto power on risky AI
OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI.
Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature via Suno integration
Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot, can now compose songs thanks to an integration with GenAI music app Suno.
EU to expand support for AI startups to tap its supercomputers for model training
A European Union plan to support homegrown AI startups by providing them with access to processing power for model training on the bloc’s supercomputers, which…
Fulfillment is still hot, as GreyOrange raises $135M
Over the last few years, I’ve asked countless people in the robotics space “what comes next after warehouse/fulfillment?
Propelled by ‘science for humanity,’ this Chinese AI startup sets sight on US
Amid rising geopolitical tensions, many Chinese tech companies find themselves recalibrating their overseas pursuits, often sidestepping any reference to their origin.
The best budgeting apps to replace Mint
If you haven’t heard, the popular budgeting app Mint is about to go away.
It’s critical to regulate AI within the multi-trillion-dollar API economy
Various kinds of AI have been here for a while, but it’s generative AI (and LLMs) that completely changed the risk landscape.
Top robotics names discuss humanoids, generative AI and more
Last month, I took an extended break.
Proposed new rule: All AI output must rhyme
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This week in AI: AI ethics keeps falling by the wayside
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order.
VCs are entering 2024 with ‘healthy paranoia’
Today on Equity, we’re joined by Deepka Rana, a London-based Principal at Northzone focused on early-stage companies across consumer internet and B2B SaaS.