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SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to

March 7, 2025

TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive…

Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

March 7, 2025

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing —…

US lawmakers have already introduce hundreds of AI bills in 2025

March 7, 2025

Just over two months into 2025, the number of pending AI bills in the U.S. has grown to 781, according to an online tracking tool. The tool, maintained by consulting firm MultiState, shows that the number of pending U.S. bills pertaining to AI now exceeds the total number of AI bills proposed in all of…

Google debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding model

March 7, 2025

Google on Friday added a new, experimental “embedding” model for text, Gemini Embedding, to its Gemini developer API. Embedding models translate text inputs like words and phrases into numerical representations, known as embeddings, that capture the semantic meaning of the text. Embeddings are used in a range of applications, such as document retrieval and classification,…

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires one-million-square-foot property in Memphis

March 7, 2025

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has acquired a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI data center footprint, according to a press release from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. The new land will host infrastructure to complement xAI’s existing Memphis data center. “xAI’s acquisition of this property ensures we’ll remain at the forefront…

TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close today, submit yours now

March 7, 2025

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which…

AI-powered ‘more personalized Siri’ is delayed

March 7, 2025

Apple is delaying the rollout of the “more personalized Siri” experience it promised as part of its rollout of Apple Intelligence. According to a statement from the tech giant published on Friday by Apple blog Daring Fireball, the company admits it will “take us longer than we thought to deliver” on these new Siri features.…

Social health expert warns of leaning too heavily on AI for social connections

March 7, 2025

With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social connections and relationships. According to Kasley Killam, author of the social health-focused book “The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and…

Health expert warns of leaning too heavily on AI for social connections

March 7, 2025

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

March 7, 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…

Google adds a Gemini panel to Calendar to help you manage your schedule

March 7, 2025

Google is testing a new AI-powered Gemini side panel within Google Calendar that lets users quickly and conversationally check their schedule, create an event, and look up event details. The feature is available as part of the tech giant’s early access testing program, Google Workspace Labs. You can access Gemini by clicking the “Ask Gemini”…

Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results

March 7, 2025

Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI…

Last day to apply to be a TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker

March 7, 2025

TechCrunch Sessions: AI kicks off on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley — and we want AI leaders to take part in industry-changing conversations. Make your mark by leading breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and other industry pioneers at TC Sessions: AI. But don’t wait, you have…

Meta’s next Llama models may have upgraded voice features

March 7, 2025

Meta’s next major “open” AI model may have a voice focus, per a report in Financial Times. According to the piece, Meta is planning to introduce improved voice features with Llama 4, the next flagship in its Llama model family, which is expected to arrive in “weeks.” Reportedly, Meta has been particularly focused on allowing…

X now lets you query Grok by mentioning it in replies

March 7, 2025

X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI’s Grok model to more users on the platform. Multiple users noted today that people can now mention Grok in replies and ask a question to get an explanation about a post. Users of the Elon Musk-owned social media platform could already access Grok through a button…

Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup

March 6, 2025

Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information. Page is reportedly working with a small group of engineers on AI that can create “highly optimized” designs for objects and then have a factory build them, per The Information. Chris Anderson,…

Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems

March 6, 2025

Scale AI is being investigated by the US Department of Labor

March 6, 2025

ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases

March 6, 2025

OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While it took ChatGPT nine months to grow from 100 million weekly active users in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, it’s now taken…

Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’

March 6, 2025

AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology’s potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences. But Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face’s co-founder and chief science officer, has a more measured take. In an essay published to X on Thursday, Wolf said that he feared AI becoming “yes-men on servers” absent a…

Christie’s AI art auction reportedly exceeds expectations

March 6, 2025

Nearly 6,500 artists demanded in an open letter that fine art auction house Christie’s cancel its first show dedicated solely to works created with AI. Yet, the show, Augmented Intelligence, went on — and reportedly exceeded expectations. According to Christie’s, the show brought in more than $700,000, with many lots reaching beyond their high estimates.…

ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code

March 6, 2025

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

March 6, 2025

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent…

TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close tomorrow, submit yours today

March 6, 2025

OpenAI’s ex-policy lead criticizes the company for ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history

March 6, 2025

A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for “rewriting the history” of its deployment approach to potentially risky AI systems. Earlier this week, OpenAI published a document outlining its current philosophy on AI safety and alignment, the process of designing AI systems that behave in desirable…

Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file

March 6, 2025

Large language models work particularly well with raw text. Companies that want to create their own AI workflow know that it has become extremely important to store and index data in a clean format so that this data can be reused for AI processing. That’s why Mistral is launching a new API today for developers…

Intangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M

March 6, 2025

Intangible AI, now backed by $4 million in seed funding, offers an AI-powered creative tool that allows users to create 3D world concepts with text prompts to aid creative professionals across a variety of industries. The company’s mission is to make the creative process accessible to everyone, including professionals such as filmmakers, game designers, event…

Data Security in the Age of AI with Rob Truesdell

March 6, 2025

Rob Truesdell discusses how enterprises must rethink data security in the age of AI. He explores why traditional security tools fall short as companies increasingly connect sensitive data with Large Language Models, and how it’s especially critical as the software industry is projected to reach 1 million organizations by 2027. Rob and Alan explore how..…

DuckDuckGo leans further into GenAI as its AI chat interface exits beta

March 6, 2025

Private search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning further into the generative AI opportunity. The non-tracking search engine has been dabbling with expanding the role of AI assistance in its product for the past year, including launching a chatbot-style interface last fall — available at Duck.ai. In a blog post Thursday, the company said the service is…

Faireez raises $7.5M for AI-powered hotel-style housekeeping for condo residents

March 6, 2025

Faireez, which aims to bring “5-star hotel-style housekeeping” to multifamily buildings, is emerging from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, the startup told TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in 2023, New York-based Faireez’s goal is to make the cleaning services it offers as customized as possible. It offers a subscription model where each building is assigned…

Cybersecurity Requirements of Cloud Computing with Brooke Motta

March 6, 2025

RAD Security CEO Brooke Motta dives into the unique cybersecurity requirements of cloud computing environments in the wake of the company picking up an additional $14 million in funding. Brooke covers the broader industry trend toward platform-based security solutions and the ongoing debate between specialized tools versus integrated approaches. Motta also highlights how infrastructure security..…

Google DeepMind, Cohere, and Twelve Labs explain how founders can build with their AI models at TechCrunch Sessions: AI

March 6, 2025

There seems to be a new, more impressive AI model every week. Given the rapid pace, how can founders best position themselves to build on top of this technology? At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley, we’ll host a panel on “How Founders Can Build on Existing Foundational Models”…

Anthropic submits AI policy recommendations to the White House

March 6, 2025

A day after quietly removing Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, Anthropic submitted recommendations to the White House for a national AI policy that the company says “better prepare[s] America to capture the economic benefits” of AI. The company’s suggestions include preserving the AI Safety Institute established under the Biden Administration, directing NIST to…

Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation

March 6, 2025

As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in fulfilling that effort is announcing a significant round of funding to expand. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects —…

A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool

March 6, 2025

Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether it’ll launch…

Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts

March 6, 2025

AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy…

OpenText Adds AI Threat Detection Module to Platform

March 6, 2025

OpenText added a threat detection module to its core platform that makes use of artificial intelligence to more accurately surface anomalies. The post OpenText Adds AI Threat Detection Module to Platform appeared first on Security Boulevard.

A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated

March 6, 2025

With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing…

AI, Web Scraping and the Transformation of Data Privacy: What the EDPB’s Rulings Mean for Businesses

March 6, 2025

Web scraping is no longer just about collecting raw data. AI transforms this data, embedding it into machine learning models that can generate insights, predict behaviors and even infer new information about individuals in ways that were never intended when the data was first made public. The post AI, Web Scraping and the Transformation of…

BreachRx Brings Generative AI to Security Incident Management

March 6, 2025

BreachRx this week added generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities to a security incident platform that promises to streamline workflows across all the stakeholders that need to collaborate. The post BreachRx Brings Generative AI to Security Incident Management appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Eric Schmidt argues against a ‘Manhattan Project for AGI’

March 5, 2025

In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, also known as AGI. The paper, titled “Superintelligence Strategy,” asserts that an aggressive…

The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them

March 5, 2025

Revenue prediction startup Gong surpasses $300M ARR, indicating potential IPO path

March 5, 2025

Gong, a startup that helps companies predict their revenue from potential sales, has surpassed $300 million in annualized recurring revenue, the company announced on Wednesday. Since its founding in 2016, Gong has used AI to analyze customer interactions. The addition of generative AI capabilities in recent years has helped to fuel the company’s growth. “We’re…

Prime Video tests AI dubbing for select movies and TV series

March 5, 2025

Prime Video is now experimenting with AI-assisted dubbing for select licensed movies and TV shows, as announced by the Amazon-owned streaming service on Wednesday. According to Prime Video, this new test will feature AI-assisted dubbing services in English and Latin American Spanish, combining AI with human localization professionals to “ensure quality control,” the company explained. …

OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’

March 5, 2025

OpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents,” according to The Information. The publication reports that OpenAI intends to launch several “agent” products tailored for different applications, including sorting and ranking sales leads and software engineering. One, a “high-income knowledge worker” agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000…

Not all cancer patients need chemo. Ataraxis AI raised $20M to fix that.

March 5, 2025

Video: How Weaviate Is Revolutionizing Search With AI

March 5, 2025

Traditional keyword searches can often fall short of finding exactly what you’re looking for, but Weaviate’s AI-powered semantic search enables faster, more accurate results—unlocking new insights from your data. In this episode of Partner POV, host Katie Bavoso sits down with Byron Voorbach, Field CTO of Weaviate, to explore how their open-source AI-native vector database…

Apple adds AI-powered app review summaries with iOS 18.4

March 5, 2025

As part of the iOS 18.4 software update, currently in public beta, Apple is introducing AI-powered summaries of App Store reviews. The new feature will leverage Apple Intelligence, the company’s built-in AI technology, to offer an overall summary based on the reviews others have left on the App Store. The review summaries will be generated…

OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT users

March 5, 2025

OpenAI has begun rolling out its newest AI model, GPT-4.5, to users on its ChatGPT Plus tier. In a series of posts on X, OpenAI said that the rollout will take “1-3 days,” and that it expects rate limits to change. GPT-4.5 launched first for subscribers to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan last week. “We’d…

Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million

March 5, 2025

CoreWeave’s initial S-1 document for its upcoming IPO is full of surprises. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service from its network of 32 data centers that together have more than 250,000 Nvidia GPUs as of the end of 2024, according to the company. Since then, it has also added a number of…

Anorexia coaches, self-harm buddies and sexualized minors: How online communities are using AI chatbots for harmful behavior

March 5, 2025

The generative AI revolution is leading to an explosion of chatbot personas that are specifically designed to promote harmful behaviors like anorexia, suicidal ideation and pedophilia, according to a new report from Graphika. Graphika’s research focuses on three distinct chatbot personas that have become particularly popular online: those portraying sexualized minors, advocates for eating disorders…

Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently

March 5, 2025

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, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson…

Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions

March 5, 2025

Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tech giant announced on Wednesday that the new mode is designed to allow users to ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within…

Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website

March 5, 2025

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 on AI bias and discrimination, were deleted from Anthropic’s transparency…

AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work

March 5, 2025

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 of Massachusetts Amherst; and Richard S. Sutton, a professor at…

Google’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothing

March 5, 2025

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 tools. The new feature, “Vision Match,” is now available in…

Apply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before time runs out

March 5, 2025

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. Help drive the next wave of innovation on June 5…

GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-language

March 5, 2025

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 during a hackathon competition in London, hosted by ElevenLabs and…

Experts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’

March 5, 2025

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 short of PR promises. “This preliminary tool, while interesting, doesn’t…

U.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigation

March 5, 2025

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. “Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence […] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s…

ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia

March 5, 2025

CoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & Biases

March 5, 2025

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. Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis founded Weights & Biases…

CoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AI

March 5, 2025

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 coming from a group of unnamed institutional investors, will be…

Quantexa nabs $175M at a $2.6B valuation to double down on data analytics for AI

March 4, 2025

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 into another hot area: using its technology to help organizations…

Key ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright case

March 4, 2025

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 the Northern District of California, indicated that Radford was served…

Judge rejects Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition

March 4, 2025

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. However, Rogers said the court is prepared to hold an…

Amazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI group

March 4, 2025

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 be “the next multi-billion business for AWS.” A longtime AWS…

Klarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AI

March 4, 2025

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 others will — or should — follow his lead. “I…

Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model

March 4, 2025

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 as June under Amazon’s Nova brand, which the company introduced…

Google still limits how Gemini answers political questions

March 4, 2025

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 with responses on elections and political figures right now,” TechCrunch’s…

OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agents

March 4, 2025

We still didn’t get a straight up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to side-step CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting…

Cohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-class

March 4, 2025

Cohere for AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is best-in-class. Aya Vision can perform tasks like writing image captions, answering questions about photos, translating text, and generating summaries in 23 major languages. Cohere, which is also making Aya Vision available for…

The AI Fix #40: ChatGPT saved my life, and making evil AIs by accident

March 4, 2025

In episode 40 of the AI Fix, Graham meets a shape-shifting GOAT, a robot dog gets wet, Mark likes Claude 3.7 Sonnet, OpenAI releases its dullest model yet, Grok 3 needs to go home and have a lie down, and everyone loses their minds over two AI agents booking a hotel room using 90s-era modem…

OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research

March 4, 2025

OpenAI on Monday said it is supporting a new consortium called NextGenAI that would focus on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities. NextGenAI, whose 15 founding academic partners include Harvard, the University of Oxford and MIT, will be funded with $50 million in research grants, compute funding, and API access from OpenAI, the company said.…

Scrunch AI is helping companies stand out in AI search

March 4, 2025

As more people turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT to look things up on the internet, the way companies approach their online presence has to change. Scrunch AI wants to help enterprises better prepare for a world in which more AI bots and agents visit their website than humans do. Scrunch AI says its platform…

LlamaIndex launches a cloud service for building unstructed data agents

March 4, 2025

Agents are the next big thing in AI. Some define these “agents” differently from others, but the general idea is, they’re AI-powered tools that can perform tasks autonomously. The agent hype has reached a fever pitch, but one startup was relatively early to the game: LlamaIndex. Founded by former Uber research scientists, Jerry Liu and…

Mistral urges telcos to get into the hyperscaler game

March 4, 2025

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch brought a sales pitch to Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, urging delegates at the world’s biggest telecoms confab in Barcelona to invest in building data center infrastructure and “becoming hyperscalers” to boost the regional AI ecosystem. “We would welcome more domestic effort in making more data centers,” he said during an on-stage…

Trump Administration cuts may threaten AI research efforts

March 3, 2025

The Trump Administration has fired a number of National Science Foundation employees who had been handpicked for their expertise in AI, threatening the agency’s ability to sustain key AI research, Bloomberg reported. One of the affected departments inside NSF, called the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, was instrumental in funneling government grants focused on…

People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now

March 3, 2025

You can now talk to Google Gemini from your iPhone’s lock screen

March 3, 2025

Google Gemini users can now access the AI chatbot directly from the iPhone’s lock screen, thanks to an update released on Monday first spotted by 9to5Google. Users can now call up Gemini Live, Google’s relatively real time voice feature for its AI chatbot, before they unlock their phone by adding a Gemini widget to their…

Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers

March 3, 2025

The author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in California

March 3, 2025

The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think…

TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7

March 3, 2025

On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be a part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event,…

TSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilities

March 3, 2025

Chipmaker TSMC said that it aims to invest “at least” $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years as part of an effort to expand the company’s network of semiconductor factories. President Donald Trump announced the news during a press conference Monday. TSMC’s cash infusion will fund the construction…

Google releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlife

March 3, 2025

Google has open-sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps — digital cameras connected to infrared sensors — to study wildlife populations. But while these traps can provide valuable insights, they generate massive volumes of data that take days to…

Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voices

March 3, 2025

Podcast recording and editing platform Podcastle is now joining other companies in the AI-powered, text-to-speech race by releasing its own AI model called Asyncflow v1.0. An API for developers will also be available, allowing them to directly integrate the text-to-speech model in their apps. Thanks to the new model, the company is able to offer…

Google upgrades Colab with an AI agent tool

March 3, 2025

Google Colab has integrated Google Labs’ Data Science Agent to help data scientists and ML engineers quickly clean their data and get insights on the datasets they upload. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

No part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGI

March 3, 2025

“There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s VP of Artificial General Intelligence, today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. He also dismissed the idea that open-source models might reduce compute needs and demurred over the question of whether European companies would change their GenAI strategies in…

Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions

March 3, 2025

AI startup Anthropic today announced that it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The Series E, which also had participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, brings the company’s total…

Chinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite U.S. export controls

March 3, 2025

Upholding export controls on semiconductor chips made in the U.S. may be harder than Washington D.C. thinks. Chinese buyers are getting their hands on computing systems with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips through third-party traders located in other regions, the Wall Street Journal reported. Buyers in Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam are buying these resources for their own…

Conan O’Brien comments on AI during his opening monologue at the Oscars

March 3, 2025

When hosting the 2025 Oscars last night, comedian and late-night TV host Conan O’Brien addressed the use of AI in his opening monologue, reflecting the growing conversation about the technology’s influence in Hollywood. “We did not use AI to make this show,” O’Brien said. His remarks were clearly a reference to the use of generative AI…

T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1K

March 3, 2025

It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company. And here it is: T-Mobile, the mobile telco owned by Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an “AI Phone,” a low-cost handset created in close…

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new ‘AI Phone’ priced at under $1K

March 3, 2025

It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company. And here it is: Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an “AI Phone,” a low-cost handset created in close collaboration with Perplexity, along with Picsart…

Stability AI optimized its audio generation model to run on Arm chips

March 3, 2025

AI startup Stability AI has teamed up with chipmaker Arm to bring Stability’s Stable Audio Open, an AI model that can generate audio including sound effects, to mobile devices running Arm chips. While a number of AI-powered apps can generate audio, like Suno and Udio, most rely on cloud processing, meaning that they can’t be…

Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI

March 3, 2025

Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant it says is a “fully private” alternative to data-mining cloud giants crawling all over your personal information. The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar and social…

Opera announces a new agentic feature for its browser

March 3, 2025

Norway-based browser company Opera announced a new agent feature called Browser Operator as a feature preview. The Browser Operator feature, when released, will complete tasks for you on different websites, the company claims. In a demo video, the company showed the agent finding a right pair of socks from Walmart, tickets for a football match…

Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screen

March 3, 2025

Google is adding new features to its AI assistant, Gemini, that let users ask it questions using video and content on the screen in real time. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona, the company showed off a new “Screenshare” feature, which lets users share what’s on their phone’s screen with Gemini and…

Apple might not release a truly ‘modernized’ Siri until 2027

March 2, 2025

Apple is struggling to rebuild Siri for the age of generative AI, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says the company might not release “a true modernized, conversational version of Siri” until iOS 20 comes out in 2027. That doesn’t mean there won’t be big Siri updates before then. A new version Siri will reportedly…

Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals

March 2, 2025

With just a few words, AI models can be prompted to create a story, an image, or even a short film. But according to Weber Wong, these models are all “made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.” In other words, they’re not built for actual creative professionals. That’s something Wong is hoping to…

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