To provide much-deserved recognition to women academics and other specialists in the field of Artificial Intelligence, TechCrunch has begun a series of interviews celebrating exceptional women who have made significant contributions to the AI sector. In the progressing year as the AI industry surges, we aim to spotlight the imperative work that often goes unnoticed. […]
On Tuesday, startup Anthropic released a family of generative AI models that it claims achieve best-in-class performance. Just a few days later, rival Inflection AI unveiled a model that it asserts comes close to matching some of the most capable models out there, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, in quality. Anthropic and Inflection are by no means […]
Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a few days’ delay, the company began to roll out Rufus to early testers February 1 — including some of us at TechCrunch — to help find and compare products as well as […]
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more […]
If it wasn’t clear before that Google’s Gemini chatbot was rushed out the door, it is now. Gemini’s since-removed image generator put people of color in Nazi-era uniforms. The chatbot’s commentary continues to tend toward the absurd besides, like equating Hitler’s record with Elon Musk posting memes. On Android, Gemini also breaks Google Assistant’s song […]
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. Amba […]
Reddit’s future, as it fast tracks towards a public listing on the stock exchange, has more to do with its relationship with AI vendors such as OpenAI than you might initially assume. The IPO prospectus that Reddit submitted today to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission underscores the value Reddit places on its data licensing […]
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more […]
Spurred by the growing threat of deepfakes, the FTC is aiming to alter an existing rule that currently bans the impersonation of businesses or government agencies to also include all consumers. The updated rule, dependent on its final phrasing and the public responses the FTC obtains, may also consider it unlawful for a GenAI platform […]