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Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Tech companies are painting data centers with gray coatings on top of gray concrete and steel to resist fire, rust and static electricity. That has made data centers a fast-growing market for paint makers.
UK bank says 1,000 job cuts already done with a further 4,000 to go before year end, driven by advances in AI, French risk premium over German bonds widest since 2011
The bank says it is using more AI leading to a 5% reduction in its workforce.
How fair are AI recruitment tools that help decide our future, and what happens when we click "apply"?
Andy Burnham advertises for policy experts in technology, economic growth and cost-of-living challenges
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.
The tool, which is not yet widely available, will compete with OpenAI’s dots and Meta’s Muse. It is built for work and not personal errands.
The spending is having an effect on the Silicon Valley giant’s cash flow, as Meta continues investing to lead in the technology.
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
The disclosure heightened concerns about A.I.’s potential to upend cybersecurity unless shortcomings are addressed.
General Motors is seeking help from artificial intelligence to keep up with Chinese companies that introduce vehicles very quickly.
This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
A spokesperson said it was removing inaccurate AI images and pausing the rollout of the tool.
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
A deal would consolidate Elon Musk’s holdings in rockets, cars and artificial intelligence into a company worth well over $3 trillion.
A Times reporter and editors discuss the challenges of sifting through what’s real and what’s not in pursuit of the news.
Children as young as 12 among dozens subject to federal police operations since 2020, parliamentary inquiry hears
Researchers are combining social psychology with AI to better understand how people become deeply engaged in political causes and what may push some towards violent behaviour
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
Elon Musk’s company reports a 161% growth in revenue year over year driven by its Starlink and AI segments
SpaceX hit profitably in the third-quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.
The response came after Homeland Security ordered the removal and exclusion of products developed by the Chinese tech giant.
OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results.
Elon Musk’s rocket company also said its revenue had more than doubled, driven by its Starlink internet satellite service and artificial intelligence products.
A US district judge dismissed the case after Ann Altman had refused to attend an independent medical examination.
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.
The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
Developers propose turning San Francisco Centre into not a server-based facility but a ‘community-based AI exhibit’
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth…
The DoJ has charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote. Plus, is the world really ready for AI actors?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.