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During a recent press appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he’s observed the “IQ” of AI rapidly improve over the past several years. “Very roughly, it feels to me like — this is not scientifically accurate, this is just a vibe or spiritual answer — every year we move one standard deviation of IQ,”…

DeepSeek AI Model Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities

February 5, 2025

Security researchers have uncovered serious vulnerabilities in DeepSeek-R1, the controversial Chinese large language model (LLM) that has drawn widespread attention for its advanced reasoning capabilities. The post DeepSeek AI Model Riddled With Security Vulnerabilities appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Workday cuts nearly 2,000 employees

February 5, 2025

Enterprise HR platform Workday is the latest tech company to announce layoffs in recent weeks. Silicon Valley-based Workday laid off 1,750 employees on Wednesday, as originally reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by TechCrunch. That total represents approximately 8.5% of headcount. Unlike many other tech companies, including Meta and Microsoft, Workday has not held drastic…

Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini

February 5, 2025

Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was part of a series of other AI model releases. The company is also making its “reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, available in the Gemini app. Notably, Google is releasing these AI models as the tech world remains…

AI’s biggest stage awaits – TechCrunch Sessions: AI tickets available

February 5, 2025

AI is heating up, and we’re diving in! TechCrunch Sessions: AI is officially open for registration. Secure your spot now and save up to $300 on select tickets before prices rise From startup founders to AI investors to aspiring innovators — TC Sessions: AI is where the entire AI ecosystem comes together. Whether you’re building,…

Musk moves to dismiss suit over Tesla’s alleged use of AI-generated ‘Blade Runner’ imagery

February 5, 2025

Attorneys for Elon Musk intend to move to dismiss a case that accuses the Tesla CEO, who is also the head of President Donald Trump’s DOGE organization, of using AI-generated, copyright-violating “Blade Runner”-inspired images at a Tesla press event. In a filing submitted to the U.S. District Court Central District of California, Western Division late…

Cherry Ventures raises a new $500M fund for early stage and beyond, but will it be enough?

February 5, 2025

It’s sometimes said that European VC doesn’t have the firepower to compete with VCs in the U.S., which regularly raise billion-dollar+ funds these days. Perhaps further evidence of this view persists in the news that Berlin-based Cherry Ventures has closed its latest fund at $500 million, to be split between early-stage rounds and follow-on rounds…

CodeSignal wants you to practice soft skills with its AI-powered guide

February 5, 2025

Startups and big tech companies have aggressively used AI to help developers write code or learn programming better. People have used chatbots to prepare for different scenarios in life, like interviews. Tech assessment platform CodeSignal, which introduced a learning platform for technical subjects with AI assistants last year, launched soft skill courses on its platform today…

European AI startups have raised $8 billion in 2024

February 5, 2025

In just a few days, France will host the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, with heads of state flocking to Paris to meet global tech leaders. They’ll most likely announce some big investments and diplomatic agreements focused on safety or the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Ahead of the summit, early-stage VC firm Galion.exe, growth investment…

European AI startups raised $8 billion in 2024

February 5, 2025

Google wants Search to be more like an AI assistant in 2025

February 4, 2025

Google Search is in the midst of a “journey” around AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. The start of that journey was AI overviews, a controversial and monumental shift in how Google delivers information to billions of Search users. But that was just the beginning. “As AI continues…

Alphabet praises DeepSeek, but it’s massively ramping up its AI spending

February 4, 2025

AMD pulls up the release of its next-gen data center GPUs

February 4, 2025

AMD says that it plans to launch its next major data center GPUs, the AMD Instinct MI350 series, sooner than originally announced. During the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call Tuesday, AMD CEO Lisa Su said AMD plans to sample the MI350 with “lead customers” this quarter, and “accelerate” production shipments to “mid-year.” “So, we had…

How Imperva Infused AI Throughout Research and Development

February 4, 2025

The Age of AI Is Upon Us The current pace of technological change beggars’ belief. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), released to the world a mere two years ago, promises to eliminate much of the tedium of the digital world. Software engineers around the world are already using it to speed up their development times (making…

U.K. Announces ‘World-First’ Cyber Code of Practice for Companies Developing AI

February 4, 2025

The Cyber Code of Practice applies to developers, system operators, and organisations that create, deploy, or manage AI systems.

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

February 4, 2025

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company appears to have updated its public AI principles page, erasing a section titled “applications we will not pursue,” which was still included as recently as last week. Asked for…

Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models

February 4, 2025

Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock announced Tuesday that the humanoid robotics firm is exiting a deal with OpenAI. The Bay Area-based robotics company has instead opted to focus on in-house AI, owing to a “major breakthrough.” Adcock was tightlipped in terms of specifics, but he promised to deliver “something no one has ever…

Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool

February 4, 2025

A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say they’ve built an “open” version of OpenAI’s deep research tool. Deep research, which OpenAI unveiled during an event Sunday, crawls the web to compile research reports on any subject. While impressive, deep research is currently…

The AI Fix #36: A DeepSeek special

February 4, 2025

In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America’s AI hegemony. Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot…

China may probe Intel for antitrust: report

February 4, 2025

Amid China’s retaliation to recently-announced U.S. tariffs, Intel may find itself in the hot seat with China’s regulators. China is apparently considering an antitrust probe into semiconductor giant Intel, according to reporting from the Financial Times. This would be in addition to the set of tariffs against the U.S. that China announced on Monday. Per…

EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act

February 4, 2025

The first compliance deadline kicked in a couple of days ago for the European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based framework for regulating uses of artificial intelligence — banning a narrow selection of so called “unacceptable risk” use-cases of AI, such as social scoring that could lead to detrimental or unfavourable treatment; or harmful manipulation using…

Former Tesla engineer heading government agency reportedly outlines ‘AI-first strategy’

February 4, 2025

Thomas Shedd, the former Tesla engineer now serving as the director of Technology Transformation Services, reportedly outlined an “AI-first strategy” for the U.S. government department. According to a report from Wired citing multiple sources, the Musk ally described the plan to run the office like a “startup software company” during a Monday meeting. The New…

Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good

February 4, 2025

Researchers from TikTok owner ByteDance have demoed a new AI system, OmniHuman-1, that can generate perhaps the most realistic deepfake videos to date. Deepfaking AI is a commodity. There’s no shortage of apps that can insert someone into a photo, or make a person appear to say something they didn’t actually say. But most deepfakes…

LogicStar is building AI agents for app maintenance

February 4, 2025

Swiss startup LogicStar is bent on joining the AI agent game. The summer 2024-founded startup has bagged $3 million in pre-seed funding to bring tools to the developer market that can do autonomous maintenance of software applications, rather than the more typical AI agent use-case of code co-development. LogicStar CEO and co-founder Boris Paskalev suggests…

OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too

February 4, 2025

OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life, freeing us up to do the…

Canada’s StackAdapt snaps up $235M for its AI-based programmatic platform

February 4, 2025

While the U.S. and Canada duke it out over tariffs between the two countries, a tech company based out of Toronto is announcing a major round of funding led by a homegrown VC. StackAdapt, a programmatic advertising startup, says that it has raised $235 million in equity funding, with Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG) — the…

OpenAI doubles down on Asia, partners with Kakao after its big deal with SoftBank

February 4, 2025

On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI’s American backyard, OpenAI is diving into expanding in Asia, with major commercial deals that will also help it train its AI on more Asian-language content and user behavior — a gateway to doing more business in these markets in the future…

SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim

February 4, 2025

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. Aggarwal is financing the investment in Krutrim largely through his family office, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. In a post on X…

AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed

February 4, 2025

AI is changing how we shop online, making our experiences more personalized. Smart assistants recommend products, negotiate deals, and even handle customer service. Big retailers and smaller businesses are using AI to improve search, supply chains, and checkout. If AI companies (and their investors) have their way, shopping will soon be focused on chatting with…

Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data

February 4, 2025

Tabular data is a broad term that encompasses structured data that generally fits into a specific row and column. It can be a SQL database, a spreadsheet, a .CSV file, etc. While there has been tremendous progress on artificial intelligence applied to unstructured and sequential data, these large language models are fuzzy by design. They…

Accel backs Indian AI startup building ‘ChatGPT for presentations’

February 3, 2025

Microsoft Will Remove the Free VPN That Comes With Windows Defender Soon

February 3, 2025

The feature will no longer be available starting Feb. 28. Microsoft wants to focus on “new areas that will better align to customer needs.”

Naver-backed Cinamon wants to make 3D video animation easier using AI

February 3, 2025

It’s never been easier to create and publish art than it is now, and if you believe the companies building tech around AI, the production process is going to get even more efficient. That’s especially the case with video production, with companies of all sizes using large language models to build tools that let you…

No, DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally

February 3, 2025

Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky

February 3, 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not release a highly capable AI…

DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech

February 3, 2025

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is raising the ire of regulators around the world. DeepSeek’s viral AI models and chatbot apps have been banned by a growing number of countries and government bodies, which have expressed concerns over DeepSeek’s ethics, privacy, and security practices. Corporations have banned DeepSeek, too — by the hundreds. The biggest…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Secure your ticket at this year’s lowest rates

February 3, 2025

Missed the 2-for-1 deal for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025? No problem! Super Early Bird prices are still available, with savings of up to $1,130 on individual tickets and up to 30% on group passes. These savings are only good until the end of this month. Celebrate 20 years of TechCrunch Disrupt from October 27-29 at Moscone…

The Beatles won a Grammy last night, thanks to AI

February 3, 2025

The Beatles’ AI-assisted track “Now and Then” won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance on Sunday night, marking the first time that a song of its kind has taken home the award. No, Paul McCartney did not use AI to create some creepy LennonGPT bot. Instead, he used noise reduction systems to clean up a…

OpenAI’s new trademark application hints at humanoid robots, smart jewelry, and more

February 3, 2025

Last Friday, AI startup OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand — “OpenAI” — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Normally, this wouldn’t be newsworthy. Companies file for trademarks all the time. But in the application, OpenAI hints at new product lines both nearer-term and of a more…

Tana snaps up $25M, with its AI-powered knowledge graph for work racking up a 160k+ waitlist

February 3, 2025

An app that helps people and teams in the working world simplify their to-do lists — ideally by organising and doing some of the work for them — has remained one of the unsolved goals in business technology. Leaning into AI, on top of battle scars from once building Google Wave, a startup called Tana…

Privacy Concerns with Digital Driver’s Licenses, The Rise of DeepSeek AI

February 2, 2025

In this episode, we explore the rollout of digital driver’s licenses in states like Illinois and the potential privacy issues that come with them. Can digital IDs truly enhance convenience without compromising your privacy? We also discuss the new Chinese AI model, DeepSeek, which is affecting U.S. tech companies’ stock prices. Join us as we…

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero’s welcome back home

February 2, 2025

DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly returned for the Lunar New Year, joined by bodyguards. Wenfeng—who, at 40, is already a billionaire due to his hedge fund, High-Flyer—has gained even greater admiration from locals following DeepSeek’s breakthrough research,…

OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’

February 2, 2025

OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Appropriately enough, it’s called deep research. OpenAI said in a blog post published Sunday that these this new capability was designed for “people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science,…

Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield

February 2, 2025

Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight…

AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU

February 2, 2025

As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc’s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose “unacceptable risk” or harm. February 2 is the first compliance deadline for the EU’s AI Act, the comprehensive AI regulatory framework that the European Parliament finally approved last March after years of development. The…

AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?

February 1, 2025

Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand compute, remote collaboration, payment processing APIs, social media, and e-commerce marketplaces have all made it easier to “go it alone” as an entrepreneur. But what about scaling that one-person business into something meatier…

OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion

January 31, 2025

OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card – a document outlining how an AI system works – that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday. Millions of Reddit users are members…

Sam Altman believes OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source

January 31, 2025

To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself in a bit of a precarious position. It’s battling the perception that it’s ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese companies like…

Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger

January 31, 2025

MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research

January 31, 2025

MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says…

‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks

January 31, 2025

Video: How DeepSeek And Emerging AI Models Could Impact The IT Channel

January 31, 2025

It’s been a wile week in the world of AI! DeepSeek went from breaking the mold with its new AI models that the Chinese startup reported were cheaper, faster, and less resource intensive to make by using fewer, sub standard GPU chips. Now, OpenAI accuses the emerging AI leader of copying its models. What does…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit

January 31, 2025

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court filings. In response, lawyers for the plaintiff — the Authors Guild — have filed a motion to compel testimony from Amodei and his Anthropic co-founder, Benjamin Mann. Authors Guild’s lawyers claim that Amodei and Mann,…

Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom

January 31, 2025

The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Julianna Lamb on Choosing Authentication Platforms Over DIY

January 31, 2025

Stytch CTO Julianna Lamb explains why, when it comes to authentication, most organizations are going to be better off relying on a platform than trying to manage these processes at scale themselves. Julianna goes on to discuss the complexities of authentication and why companies are struggling with the decision to build their own authentication systems……

Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist

January 31, 2025

The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage in a New York City art gallery turned theater for the night. Wine and water flowed through the intimate space as the house — packed with media — sat to witness the premiere of “Doomers,” Matthew Gasda’s latest play…

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model

January 31, 2025

Eric Brüggemann on Code Intelligence Launching Spark

January 31, 2025

Eric Brüggemann, CEO of Code Intelligence, introduces Spark, their new AI-driven security testing tool. Spark automates vulnerability detection by integrating into CI/CD pipelines and eliminating the need for developers to manually write security tests. The tool scans code, identifies potential risks, and generates automated security tests using AI, significantly reducing the time and effort required..…

Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts

January 31, 2025

Microsoft says that it’s creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division that will help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI the company hopes to build. Microsoft AI, which encompasses Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, and Edge products, is becoming core to Microsoft’s growth strategy…

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

January 31, 2025

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its…

AI startup Perplexity sued for alleged trademark infringement

January 31, 2025

Perplexity, the venture-backed startup building AI-powered search products, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another company’s trademark. In a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a company called Perplexity Solved Solutions accuse Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by using the…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Last 24 hours for 2-for-1 Pass

January 31, 2025

Final hours for 2-for-1 Passes! One of the best Super Early Bird Deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be wrapping up in just 24 hours for the rest of the year. The 2-for-1 Pass lets you bring a friend, colleague, or business partner, for nearly free. Buy one pass at the Super Early Bird rate…

Apple Intelligence will support more languages from April

January 31, 2025

Apple’s AI suite, Apple Intelligence, will soon be available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese, along with localized English versions for India and Singapore. During the company’s Q4 2024 quarterly results call on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook said that the company will roll out support for these additional languages in…

How to Train AI Dragons to Solve Network Security Problems

January 30, 2025

Exploring how AI can help service providers and cloud builders keep their networks secure and why “feeding your AI dragons” with relevant, high-quality data is essential for implementing AI for DDoS security. The post How to Train AI Dragons to Solve Network Security Problems appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants for chip production

January 30, 2025

Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the company shared during its Thursday earnings call. Dave Zinsner, Intel’s co-interim CEO, executive vice president and CFO, said the Silicon Valley-based company received the first tranche of $1.1 billion…

Apple CEO says DeepSeek shows ‘innovation that drives efficiency’

January 30, 2025

Apple CEO Tim Cook said DeepSeek’s AI models represent “innovation that drives efficiency” on an earnings call on Thursday while fielding questions from analysts about the iPhone maker’s ambitions around AI. “In general, I think innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing. And, you know, that’s what you see in that model,” said Cook,…

Google quietly announces its next flagship AI model

January 30, 2025

Google took the low-key route for the launch of its next-gen flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental. Instead of a splashy announcement, the AI model was revealed in the changelog for the company’s Gemini chatbot app. The launch of Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental — the successor to the Gemini 1.5 Pro model that Google…

Intel won’t bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market

January 30, 2025

Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads. The move comes as Intel tries to correct course after a number of disappointing product launches and historic losses, while competitors like AMD and Nvidia gain ground. Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday,…

Apple quarterly revenue increases, even as China sales decline 11%

January 30, 2025

Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag filled with slipping iPhone sales and countered by rising revenue. Reporting after the bell Thursday, the iPhone maker’s overall revenue in the first quarter of 2025 beat Wall Street expectations, with a 4% bump to $124.3 billion over the same time last year. Apple reported net income of…

OpenAI said to be in talks to raise $40B at a $340B valuation

January 30, 2025

OpenAI may have billions of dollars in the bank. But it’s gearing up to raise billions more, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Per The WSJ, OpenAI is in talks to secure up to $40 billion in a funding round that would value the startup at $340 billion. SoftBank would lead the…

Serial founder DIVINE launches creator app with hip hop legend Rakim

January 30, 2025

Serial entrepreneur and recording artist Victor Lombard, also known as DIVINE, announced this week the launch of a new company, in partnership with Rakim, one of hip-hop’s most influential emcees. The company is called Notes, a fintech specifically for independent urban musicians and creators. It provides the knowledge and tools to help artists manage their…

Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ feature calls businesses on your behalf to inquire about services, pricing

January 30, 2025

Google is testing a new “Ask for Me” feature that uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing. The feature is available on desktop and mobile for users who have opted into the company’s Search Labs experiments. The idea is to help users access information without having to…

Hiya AI Phone App Protects Against Deepfakes, Other Scams

January 30, 2025

Mobile security solutions company Hiya is rolling out its Hiya AI Phone app that uses trained AI models to smoke out deepfakes and other mobile scams and alerts the user to the potential threat. In addition, it will automatically transcribes and summarizes calls. The post Hiya AI Phone App Protects Against Deepfakes, Other Scams appeared…

Google issues ‘voluntary exit’ program for Android, Chrome, and Pixel employees

January 30, 2025

Google SVP Rick Osterloh issued an internal memo to the Pixel/Android/Chrome team Thursday, announcing a “voluntary exit program.” TechCrunch has confirmed the letter’s existence with the company, after it was first reported by 9 to 5 Google. In a statement to TechCrunch, a spokesperson notes, The Platforms & Devices team is offering a voluntary exit…

Factorial Capital takes a fresh approach to finding startups with a technical edge

January 30, 2025

To make smart bets on the current wave of startups, Matt Hartman thinks venture capitalists will need a deeper understanding of the tech those startups are building. Hartman (pictured above) spent nine years as a partner Betaworks before starting a new firm, Factorial Capital, where he’s developed a different approach to identifying the startups with…

Wiz researchers find sensitive DeepSeek data exposed to internet

January 30, 2025

A security issue at Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek exposed over a million lines of sensitive internal data, including user chat histories, API secrets, and backend operational details, according to research published Wednesday by cloud security firm Wiz. The exposure, discovered earlier this month, stemmed from a publicly accessible ClickHouse database linked to DeepSeek’s systems.…

How DeepSeek changed Silicon Valley’s AI landscape

January 30, 2025

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI, Meta, and Google have to offer. DeepSeek claims to have built its models highly efficiently and quickly, and is providing these models at a fraction of the price American…

Data center operator DataBank nets $250M equity investment

January 30, 2025

The data center market is booming, driven by AI demand. Just last week, OpenAI said that it plans to team up with backers including SoftBank to spend at least $100 billion on data center infrastructure in the U.S. Microsoft aims to put around $80 billion toward AI infrastructure this year, and rival tech giants have…

OpenAI will offer its tech to US national labs for nuclear weapons research

January 30, 2025

OpenAI says it plans to let U.S. National Laboratories, the Department of Energy’s network of R&D labs, use its AI models for nuclear weapons security and other scientific projects. Per CNBC, OpenAI will work with Microsoft, its lead investor, to deploy a model on the supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The model will be a…

Microsoft’s Copilot-focused Surface Pro and Laptop PCs ship with Snapdragon and Intel options

January 30, 2025

At an event in New York City on Thursday, Microsoft unveiled two additions to the Surface line of PCs. The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop both arrive with Copilot+ PC certification. Announced in May 2024, the program aims to identify business-focused devices that are designed specifically for the company’s AI platform, Copilot. It’s a…

AI creations edited by humans can likely be copyrighted in US, agency says

January 30, 2025

In the U.S., AI-generated creations — books, movies, and so forth— that have been edited by a human can likely be copyrighted, but those without any human modifications or additions cannot. That’s according to a report published by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) on Wednesday, which outlined scenarios in which AI-generated content might be eligible…

Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best

January 30, 2025

Data analytics startup Athenic AI wants to be an enterprise’s central nervous system

January 30, 2025

Jared Zhao originally got interested in data analytics during his time at UC Berkeley because he was drawn to how it could turn raw data into a story. Zhao founded his first data analytics startup Polyture in 2021. But advancements in generative AI just a year later made Zhao realize what Polyture was building was…

SuperOps bags $25M to use AI to better help managed service providers

January 30, 2025

SuperOps has raised $25 million in an all-equity Series C round led by March Capital to bolster AI integration into tools supporting managed service providers and IT teams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Network Security Market to Hit $38 Billion by 2029: Cloud, AI Drive Growth

January 30, 2025

The global network security market is on track to reach $38 billion by 2029, growing at a 10% annual rate, according to a report from Dell’Oro Group. The post Network Security Market to Hit $38 Billion by 2029: Cloud, AI Drive Growth appeared first on Security Boulevard.

India lauds Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, plans to host its models on local servers

January 30, 2025

India’s IT minister on Thursday praised DeepSeek‘s progress and said the country will host the Chinese AI lab’s large language models on domestic servers, in a rare opening for Chinese technology in India. “You have seen what DeepSeek has done — $5.5 million and a very very powerful model,” IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on…

SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says

January 29, 2025

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40 billion on AI initiatives with the Microsoft-backed startup, according to Financial Times. The potential investment would make SoftBank OpenAI’s largest single backer, the report said, surpassing Microsoft…

Zuck shrugs off DeepSeek, vows to spend hundreds of billions on AI

January 29, 2025

Microsoft brings a DeepSeek model to its cloud

January 29, 2025

Microsoft’s close partner and collaborator, OpenAI, might be suggesting that DeepSeek stole its IP and violated its terms of service. But Microsoft still wants DeepSeek’s shiny new models on its cloud platform. Microsoft today announced that R1, DeepSeek’s so-called reasoning model, is available on Azure AI Foundry service, Microsoft’s platform that brings together a number…

DeepSeek might have a trademark problem in the U.S.

January 29, 2025

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has been accused of IP theft, faced privacy inquiries in Europe, and has been the target of an enormous cyberattack. Now, it appears the company has a new headache on its hands: a U.S. trademark conflict. On Tuesday, DeepSeek filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeking…

What DeepSeek, China, and Trump mean for Apple ahead of its Q1 earnings

January 29, 2025

These days, nothing is certain about the tech market or the world at large. Even NVIDIA’s seemingly bulletproof stock took a hammering on Monday, enduring a $589 billion market cap decline after China-based DeepSeek raised questions for investors about more efficient AI models. But Apple’s stock has remained steady ahead of its first quarter earnings…

Anthropic’s CEO says DeepSeek shows that U.S. export rules are working as intended

January 29, 2025

In an essay on Wednesday, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, weighed in on the debate over whether Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s success implies that U.S. export controls on AI chips aren’t working. Amodei, who recently made the case for stronger export controls in an op-ed co-written with former U.S. deputy national security advisor Matt…

Report: Majority of U.S. teens have lost trust in Big Tech

January 29, 2025

American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering reviews and ratings for media and technology, which more recently includes AI products. In the study released Wednesday, the organization surveyed over 1,000 teens on whether major technology companies like Google, Apple, Meta, TikTok,…

Ireland and Italy send data watchdog requests to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’

January 29, 2025

The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model have made some major waves. And now, it’s…

Our Digital Footprints are Breadcrumbs for Mapping our Personal Behavior

January 29, 2025

The Government Accountability Office states that customers are usually unaware of the potential privacy risks and biases that arise from use of personal information. The post Our Digital Footprints are Breadcrumbs for Mapping our Personal Behavior appeared first on Security Boulevard.

This Bay Area startup is using AI to help families navigate long-term care planning

January 29, 2025

Lily Vittayaruksku was studying aerospace engineering when her aunt was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. Her aunt had lived under the same roof as Vittayaruksku while she was growing up and helped raise her. “We went all in on her care,” she recalled. Post-chemotherapy, Vittayaruksku’s aunt “became very frail,” so her family – originally from…

Vulnerability in popular AI developer could ‘shut down essentially everything you own’

January 29, 2025

A popular platform for developing AI systems has patched an easily exploitable vulnerability that would have given an attacker remote code execution privileges. Researchers at application security firm Noma detail how the flaw, embedded in Javascript code for Lightning.AI’s development platform, could be manipulated to give an attacker virtually unfettered access to a user’s cloud…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Only 3 days left for 2-for-1 Pass

January 29, 2025

Only 3 days remain to score the ultimate deal for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — two of the same ticket types for the price of one! Don’t wait to take advantage of these massive savings. This limited-time offer ends this Friday, January 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT — after that, these 2-for-1 Passes will be gone.…

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