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OpenAI is bankrolling Axios’ expansion into four new markets

OpenAI is getting into the local news game. Newsletter-based media organization Axios announced a partnership with OpenAI on Wednesday. As part of this three-year deal, the AI giant will fund Axios’ expansion of its local newsletters into four new cities: Pittsburgh; Kansas City, Missouri; Boulder, Colorado; and Huntsville, Alabama. While OpenAI has inked content-sharing and…

AI researcher François Chollet founds a new AI lab focused on AGI

January 15, 2025

François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs. The startup, Ndea, will consist of an AI research and science lab. It’s looking to “develop and operationalize” AGI. AGI, which stands for “artificial general intelligence,” typically refers to AI that can perform any…

CISA’s AI cyber collaboration playbook aims to spur information-sharing

January 15, 2025

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is making one last push before the change in administration for increased information sharing between the public and private sectors, releasing an artificial intelligence-focused playbook Tuesday that aims to foster “a unified approach” to handling AI-related cyber threats. The agency’s AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook was developed with the FBI,…

Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini

January 15, 2025

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini. Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships, said that the goal is to “further enhance the usefulness of results” in the Gemini experience. “As…

Google raises the price of Workspace plans, includes its AI features for free

January 15, 2025

Google announced on Wednesday that all AI features in Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Meet are now available to Workspace customers at no extra charge, though the plan will see a $2 per month increase per user. This change simplifies access to Workplace AI tools, including email summaries, automated note-taking, chatting with the Gemini bot, and…

As Gen Z job applicants balloon, companies are turning to AI agent recruiters

January 15, 2025

According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the UK alone, employers running graduate training schemes received an average of 140 applications for each job in 2024, 59 per cent more than in 2023, according to the Institute of Student Employers. And despite some trepidations amongst a few recruiters,…

OpenAI tests letting users sign up for ChatGPT with only a phone number

January 15, 2025

OpenAI has begun testing a feature that lets new ChatGPT users sign up with only a phone number — no email required. As spotted by software engineer Tibor Blaho, the feature, which is available in beta in the U.S. and India, lets users create an account for ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, by providing their…

Rockfish is helping enterprises leverage synthetic data

January 15, 2025

For years, Vyas Sekar would call up Muckai Girish, an old friend from undergrad, to talk through potential startup ideas and get Girish’s opinion. The two usually talked through an idea and ended the conversation at that. When Sekar called Girish with an idea involving synthetic data in early 2022, the conversation didn’t just end…

Microsoft’s newest Copilot plan for business is pay-as-you-go

January 15, 2025

Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several, but not all, of the company’s existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365. The new plan, Copilot Chat — not to be confused with Microsoft’s Copilot Business Chat or GitHub Copilot Chat — is underpinned by OpenAI’s GPT-4o AI model and lets…

Synthesia snaps up $180M at a $2.1B valuation for its B2B AI video platform

January 15, 2025

As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-created videos are stirring controversy. Synthesia, a London startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, says it’s a big hit with enterprises, with some 60,000 of them — 1 million users —…

Nvidia backs MetAI, a Taiwanese startup that creates AI-powered digital twins

January 14, 2025

Nvidia has been doubling down on the opportunity to build robotics and other industrial AI applications, with the launch of its Omniverse platform, and most recently Mega, an Omniverse Blueprint framework to create digital twins to operate these applications. It’s also investing in digital twin startups to get the effort off the ground. Taiwan’s MetAI…

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

January 14, 2025

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership…

Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal

January 14, 2025

Executives and researchers leading Meta’s AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages unsealed by a court on Tuesday in one of the company’s ongoing AI copyright cases, Kadrey v. Meta. “Honestly… Our goal needs to be GPT-4,” said Meta’s VP of Generative AI, Ahmad Al-Dahle, in…

Google’s NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans

January 14, 2025

OpenAI appoints BlackRock exec to its board

January 14, 2025

OpenAI has appointed an executive at investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investing platform, has joined OpenAI’s board, OpenAI announced on Tuesday. In a statement, OpenAI board chairman Bret Taylor said that Ogunlesi has “an exceptional…

Biden administration opens up federal land to AI data centers

January 14, 2025

With less than a week left in office, President Joe Biden is not done leaving his mark on the AI industry. President Biden issued an executive order on Tuesday that will allow private sector AI companies to lease federal sites owned by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy in order to build AI…

ChatGPT now lets you schedule reminders and recurring tasks

January 14, 2025

Paying users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now ask the AI assistant to schedule reminders or recurring requests. The new beta feature, called tasks, will start rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users around the globe this week. With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such as, “Remind me when my passport…

Apple joins consortium to help develop next-gen AI data center tech

January 14, 2025

Apple has joined a consortium creating next-gen technology to link together chips in AI data centers. The consortium, the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, is developing a standard called UALink, which connects the AI accelerator chips found within a growing number of server farms. As of Tuesday, Apple is a member of the consortium’s board, along…

A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase raises $3M for his next venture

January 14, 2025

At 24 years old, Pryce Yebesi already has one exit: selling his crypto invoicing company Utopia Labs to Coinbase for an undisclosed amount. Some founders don’t just have one company in them. On Monday, Yebesi announced the launch of his new company, Open Ledger, which embeds automated accounting software into products that enterprises and small…

OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to ‘politically unbiased’ AI

January 14, 2025

OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents. In the original draft of its “economic blueprint” for the AI industry in the U.S., OpenAI said that AI models “should aim to be politically unbiased by default.” A new draft, made available Monday, deletes that phrasing. When…

Six Friends Every Security Team Needs

January 14, 2025

Around the year 1900, an author (Rudyard Kipling) wrote a poem called “The Elephant’s Child.” In it, he writes: “I keep six honest serving men They taught me all I knew Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.” Little did Kipling know that these six friends would someday…

With $30 million in new funding, SEEQC thinks chips are key to building useful quantum computing

January 14, 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have said that “very useful quantum computers” are probably still 20 years away, but his company is also hedging its bets beyond classical chips with investments and partnerships in that very space. Now one of the companies that Nvidia partners with in quantum development is announcing funding. SEEQC, a quantum…

The AI Fix #33: AI’s deliberate deceptions, and Elon’s “unhinged” mode

January 14, 2025

In episode 33 of The AI Fix, our hosts watch a robot fall over, ChatGPT demonstrates that it can’t draw a watch face but it can fire a gun, a man without a traffic cone gets trapped in his Waymo taxi, Graham discovers what social robots are, and both hosts watch horrified as somebody rips…

OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why

January 14, 2025

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English. Given a problem to sort out — e.g. “How many R’s are in the word ‘strawberry?’” — o1…

Thoras helps companies reach reliability without overspending on cloud costs

January 14, 2025

For years, twin sisters Nilo Rahmani and Jen Rahmani swapped stories — and commiserated — over the pain points they were facing in their respective engineering jobs. Nilo told TechCrunch that a frequent topic of conversation was about frustrations over the reliability platforms they were using at work. When they noticed the reliability landscape starting…

AWS pledges to spend $5B in Mexico, launches new Mexico server region

January 14, 2025

In an announcement Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said it plans to invest $5 billion in Mexico over the next 15 years as a part of a “long-term commitment” in the region. A portion of that investment is a new server region in Mexico launching today, AWS Mexico, that will allow…

UK’s CMA slaps Google Search and its 90%+ market share with an antitrust investigation

January 14, 2025

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its new rules that came into effect this month. It’s looking into the market dominance of Google in Search, including the new work it’s doing in AI search as well as…

Bioptimus raises $41M to develop a ‘GPT for biology’

January 14, 2025

A fledgling French AI startup has raised $41 million to develop a foundational AI model for biology. Just as OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm for a super-smart generative AI tool capable of natural language conversation in text form, Bioptimus is taking that concept but training its model specifically for downstream biological applications…

Microsoft forms new internal dev-focused AI org

January 13, 2025

Microsoft has created a new engineering org aimed at accelerating AI infrastructure and software development within the company. According to Bloomberg, Jay Parikh, previously VP and global head of engineering at Meta, will lead the new division. He’ll report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and oversee groups including the company’s AI platform and developer teams.…

OpenAI presents its preferred version of AI regulation in a new ‘blueprint’

January 13, 2025

OpenAI on Monday published what it’s calling an “economic blueprint” for AI: a living document that lays out policies the company thinks it can build on with the U.S. government and its allies. The blueprint, which includes a forward from Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s VP of global affairs, asserts that the U.S. must act to attract…

Biden administration unveils export controls on AI models, chips

January 13, 2025

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The first AI chip startup to go public in 2025 will be Blaize

January 13, 2025

Raspberry AI raises $24M from a16z to accelerate fashion design

January 13, 2025

The world of fashion is moving at a faster pace each year. Most retailers introduce new styles each season, and fast-fashion companies like Shein, H&M and Zara update their collections continuously. To keep pace with the rapid demand for new styles, brands and manufacturers have been turning to tech to accelerate their design process. Raspberry…

A 24-year-old who exited his first company to Coinbase, raises $3M for his next venture

January 13, 2025

At 24 years old, Pryce Yebesi already has one exit: selling his crypto invoicing company Utopia Labs to Coinbase for an undisclosed amount. Some founders don’t just have one company in them. On Monday, Yebesi announced the launch of his new company, OpenLedger, which embeds automated accounting software into products enterprises and small businesses already…

Biden administration proposes sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI chips

January 13, 2025

With a week left in office, President Joe Biden introduced a new set of guidelines and restrictions for exporting U.S.-made AI chips. On Monday the administration announced its Interim Final Rule on AI diffusion. This ruling is meant to “provide clarity to allied and partner nations about how they can benefit from AI” and streamline…

Moody’s agrees to acquire Cape Analytics, which develops geospatial AI for insurance providers

January 13, 2025

Financial services firm Moody’s announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Cape Analytics, a geospatial AI startup, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to close in Q1, subject to customary closing conditions, will give Moody’s access to Cape’s geospatial AI analytics technology for insurance underwriting. With the tech, Moody’s plans…

More money comes to AI healthcare: Qventus nabs $105M at a $400M+ valuation

January 13, 2025

Healthcare is proving to be one of the more lucrative industries when it comes to building AI solutions to speed up how work is carried out across clinical, research and administrative operations. Today comes one of the latest examples of how that is playing out in terms of venture funding. Qventus, a startup that builds…

CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens its first international data centers in the UK

January 13, 2025

Coreweave, the $19 billion cloud computing company that provides companies with AI compute resources, has formally opened its first two data centers in the U.K. — its first outside its domestic U.S. market. CoreWeave opened its European headquarters in London last May, shortly after hitting a $19 billion valuation off the back of a $1.1.…

UK throws its hat into the AI fire

January 13, 2025

In 2023, the U.K. made a big song and dance about the need to consider the harms of AI, giving itself a leading role in the wider conversation around AI safety. Now, it’s whistling a very different tune: today, the government announced a sweeping plan and a big bet on AI investments to develop what…

AI Privacy Policies: Unveiling the Secrets Behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

January 12, 2025

Do you ever read the privacy policy of your favorite AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude? In this episode, Scott Wright and Tom Eston discuss the critical aspects of these policies, comparing how each AI engine handles your personal data. They explore the implications of data usage, security, and privacy in AI, with insights…

Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

January 11, 2025

So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that’s competitive with an earlier version of OpenAI’s o1 on a number of key benchmarks. Sky-T1 appears to be the first truly…

Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

January 11, 2025

Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor’s largest investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit

January 10, 2025

Microsoft has taken legal action against a group the company claims intentionally developed and used tools to bypass the safety guardrails of its cloud AI products. According to a complaint filed by the company in December in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a group of unnamed 10 defendants allegedly used…

New OpenAI job listings reveal its robotics plans

January 10, 2025

OpenAI disbanded its robotics department. Then, it brought it back. Now, through a social media post from its hardware director and newly published job descriptions, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for the revived team. In a post on X on Friday, Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI to lead hardware last November from Meta’s…

How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

January 10, 2025

OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers’ entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack

January 10, 2025

AI companies across the globe raised more than $100 billion in venture capital dollars in 2024, according to Crunchbase data, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2023. It encompasses nearly a third of the total VC dollars invested in 2024. That’s a lot of money funneling into a lot of AI companies. The…

Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement

January 10, 2025

Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, has settled a lawsuit against Korean AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused Hugging Face of infringing on one of its patents. Per a filing on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Delaware, FriendliAI reached a “confidential agreement” with Hugging Face on January 8, and…

Gumloop, founded in a bedroom in Vancouver, lets users automate tasks with drag-and-drop modules

January 10, 2025

Developers Max Brodeur-Urbas and Rahul Behal think that AI has the potential to automate lots of business-relevant tasks, but that many of the AI-powered automation tools on the market today are unreliable and costly. Part of the problem is that users expect too much of AI, Brodeur-Urbas told TechCrunch — for instance, they assume that…

Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents

January 9, 2025

Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five…

Nvidia’s AI avatar sat on my computer screen and weirded me out

January 9, 2025

Nvidia unveiled a prototype AI avatar at CES 2025 that lives on your PC’s desktop. The AI assistant, R2X, looks like a video game character, and it can help you navigate apps on your computer. The R2X avatar is rendered and animated using Nvidia’s AI models, and users can run the avatar on popular LLMs…

ChatGPT’s newest feature lets user assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’

January 9, 2025

OpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot. Some users on X on Thursday reported that ChatGPT’s existing custom instructions menu on the web has been revamped with new fields. Now, users can specify a preferred name or nickname, their profession, other things they’d like…

Google folds more teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’

January 9, 2025

As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is further streamlining the teams building its AI services, platforms, and tools. On Thursday, Logan Kilpatrick, who leads product for Google’s AI Studio developer platform, said in a post on X that Google’s AI Studio team and the team developing the API for…

Scale AI hit by its second employee wage lawsuit in less than a month

January 9, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

January 9, 2025

Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a data set of pirated ebooks and articles for training. The case, Kadrey v. Meta, is one of many against tech giants developing AI…

CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event

January 9, 2025

CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements circulating on the show floor. We’ve compiled the weirdest, silliest, and most eyebrow-raising products from CES 2025. A robotic cat that cools down your coffee for…

Google’s Daily Listen AI feature generates a podcast based on your Discover feed

January 9, 2025

Google is testing a new “Daily Listen” feature that automatically generates a podcast based on your Discover feed. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Daily Listen is a personalized AI-powered audio experience that is designed to help you stay up to date on the topics you care about. The feature is currently rolling out on…

Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent

January 9, 2025

French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents that are ready to use, the company is building an orchestration platform that lets companies build their own voice agent. Rounded started off working on a web3 product before shifting…

xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot

January 9, 2025

Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data

January 8, 2025

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left to train AI models on. “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. “That happened basically last year.” Musk, who…

CES 2025 was full of IRL AI slop

January 8, 2025

It’s 2025, and companies still don’t know what AI is good for. That’s the impression I got from this year’s CES, which featured AI-powered kitchen appliances, baby cribs, and other products that really weren’t calling for AI. See: Spicerr, an “intelligent” touchscreen-equipped spice dispenser that learns your taste as you cook to recommend unique recipes.…

CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event

January 8, 2025

Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’

January 8, 2025

Last April, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, teased a mysterious “Unhinged Mode” for X’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok. Nearly a year later, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has updated an FAQ page on its website that sheds light on the new mode. Grok in Unhinged Mode will provide responses “intended to be objectionable,…

Halliday’s $489 smart glasses beam a tiny screen to your eye

January 8, 2025

Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant. The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on their eyeball. Wearables startup Halliday launched a pair of smart glasses at CES 2025…

AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to build benchmarks for AGI

January 8, 2025

Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop benchmarks that’ll probe AI for “human-level” intelligence. The nonprofit, the ARC Prize Foundation, will be led by Greg Kamradt, an ex-Salesforce engineering director and founder of the AI product studio Leverage. Kamradt will serve as president and a member…

This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?

January 8, 2025

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Between OpenAI’s 12 days of “shipmas” and DeepSeek’s major model release on Christmas Day, blink and you’d miss some new development. And it’s not slowing…

Microsoft moves to disrupt hacking-as-a-service scheme that’s bypassing AI safety measures

January 8, 2025

Microsoft is petitioning a Virginia court to seize software and shut down internet infrastructure that they allege is being used by a group of foreign cybercriminals to bypass safety guidelines for generative AI systems. In a filing with the Eastern District Court of Virginia, Microsoft brought a lawsuit against ten individuals for using stolen credentials…

Former Huami employees launch SATELLAI, a satellite pet tracker, at CES 2025

January 8, 2025

With the smart pet wearable market estimated at $1.72 million in 2024, a new startup in the pet tech space is entering the scene with a dog tracker and collar that can directly link with satellite tracking without needing an LTE signal. At CES 2025, SATELLAI presented its pet tracker and smart collar, which include…

Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’

January 8, 2025

San Francisco startup Based Hardware announced the launch of a new AI wearable, Omi, to boost productivity during the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week. The device can be worn as a necklace where Omi’s AI assistant can be activated by saying “Hey Omi.” The startup also claims Omi can be attached to…

Grove cuts clinical trial enrollment time with AI

January 8, 2025

Tran Le was an engineering student at Stanford University when she tried to enroll in a clinical trial for her chronic condition. Although she identified several promising trials, she found the sign-up process daunting — she had to have extensive email exchanges with clinical sites and complete lengthy 20-page forms. All that paperwork was so…

Microsoft rolls back its Bing Image Creator model after users complain of degraded quality

January 8, 2025

Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company’s Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model — the latest version of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, code-named “PR16” — would allow users to create images “twice as fast…

Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals

January 8, 2025

Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India’s core sectors on Wednesday, a day after pledging to invest $3 billion in the country over the next two years as it intensifies competition with rivals Google and Amazon. The tech giant’s chief executive Satya Nadella (pictured above) unveiled agreements with five major organizations…

Sam Altman’s family responds to lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted his sister

January 7, 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to sexual assault accusations from his estranged younger sister on Tuesday, calling the claims “entirely untrue.” According to the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, in a new lawsuit filed Monday, Annie Altman alleges her older brother sexually assaulted her over a nine-year period in the 1990s and 2000s. The suit echoes…

Delta Air Lines announces an AI-powered assistant in its mobile app and free onboard YouTube Premium and Music at CES 2025

January 7, 2025

Over the last few years, Delta Air Lines’ presence has become a staple of CES, with the airline regularly hosting splashy keynotes. This year, the company has rented out the Sphere to announce its latest slate of updates. These include (can you guess it?) an AI-powered assistant in its app, as well as an updated…

Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law

January 7, 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rubric that drove computing progress for decades. “Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore’s Law,” said Huang in an interview with TechCrunch on Tuesday, the morning after he delivered a keynote…

AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia

January 7, 2025

On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” $11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure to support various cloud computing and AI technologies. AWS estimates that its investment will create roughly 550 jobs in the state. “AWS is proud to expand our operations in…

Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed

January 7, 2025

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring Anthropic’s total raised to $15.7 billion, going by Crunchbase’s data. It would also…

The AI Fix #32: Agentic AI, killer robot fridges, and the robosexual revolution

January 7, 2025

In episode 32 of The AI Fix, our hosts learn the meaning of “poronkusema”, Mark discovers his dream job, a school tries using AI instead of teachers, the “Godfather of AI” says AI will see us as toddlers, and Graham lifts the lid on the hidden threat of killer robot fridges. Mark explains why 2025…

Panasonic unveils an AI-powered wellness coach, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, at CES 2025

January 7, 2025

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which offers families a personalized, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi uses the Claude AI model to help families “care, coordinate, and connect” with each other, the company said. More specifically, this involves an AI assistant that focuses on…

At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster

January 7, 2025

Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000…

Trump announces $20B plan to build new data centers in the US

January 7, 2025

UK confirms plans to criminalize the creation of sexually explicit deepfake content

January 7, 2025

The U.K. is forging ahead with plans to make the act of creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images a specific criminal offence. A deepfake refers to manipulated media, often video or audio, created using AI to make someone appear to say or do something they didn’t. The U.K. had already made sharing — and the threat…

German Bionic’s new exoskeleton supports 80-pound lifts

January 7, 2025

At CES 2025, German Bionic announced the Apogee Ultra, a new robotic exoskeleton it claims is the “world’s most powerful.” What did the system do to earn such a lofty title? It offers up to 80 pounds of dynamic lift assistance. That mean a payload of 70 pounds feels more like 9 to 11 pounds…

Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants

January 7, 2025

When Valeria Kogan started her Ph.D. program in bioinformatics, the scientific field that uses computation and software to analyze biological data, in 2017, she imagined her career would always be within the fields of mathematics, medicine, or biology. But after the first AI boom in the late 2010s, she got an intriguing opportunity in a…

Microsoft to pump $3 billion into cloud and AI push in India

January 7, 2025

Microsoft plans to invest an additional $3 billion to expand capacity for its artificial intelligence and cloud Azure services in India, the software giant’s chief executive said Tuesday. The software giant, among the top cloud and AI providers in India, is already seeing many of its clients in the South Asian market use its newest…

Beware the Rise of the Autonomous Cyber Attacker

January 7, 2025

AI’s growing sophistication signals a future in which networks can be compromised autonomously, and the industry must prepare for this near-term reality. The post Beware the Rise of the Autonomous Cyber Attacker appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Apple to label notification summaries to indicate use of AI

January 7, 2025

Apple said on Monday it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided by Apple Intelligence. We encourage users to report a concern if they view an unexpected notification…

Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction

January 6, 2025

Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including, 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier…

Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch

January 6, 2025

Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia processors by the boatload, and that’s…

AMD unveils new chips for laptops, desktops, and gaming handhelds at CES 2025

January 6, 2025

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled a slew of new chips destined for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds. AMD is riding high coming into this year’s CES. The company commanded a 28.7% share of the desktop CPU segment in Q3 2024, up 9.6 percentage points compared to the same quarter the…

Google unveils an AI-powered TV that summarizes the news for you at CES 2025

January 6, 2025

Long gone are the days of simply watching the news. Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday. It uses the company’s Gemini AI assistant to summarize the biggest news of the day for you. By asking Gemini to play your “News Brief,” the AI assistant will scrape…

Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world

January 6, 2025

Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks, one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, last October, will lead the new team, he announced in a post on X. It’ll be a part of…

Online spending grew 3% to a record $1.2T over holiday period, says Salesforce

January 6, 2025

Online spending rose 3% to a record $1.2 trillion globally over the holiday period, with U.S.-sales, specifically, growing 4% to $282 billion. That’s according to a new report from Salesforce, which aggregated data from across its various cloud services, including Agentforce, Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Service Cloud, to garner insights into spending activity spanning…

UK uses AI to tackle ‘bid-rigging’ collusion in public procurement contracts

January 6, 2025

The U.K’s competition authority already has a lot on its plate in terms of tackling Big Tech’s growing reach across the technological spectrum, but closer to home it’s dealing with a different kind of anti-competitive threat — one it reckons AI is well-equipped to address. As per a Financial Times’ report this week, the Competition…

Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

January 6, 2025

Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is making openly available a family of world models that can predict and generate “physics-aware” videos. Nvidia’s calling this family…

Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’

January 6, 2025

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. Designed for AI researchers, data scientists, and students, Project Digits packs Nvidia’s new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which delivers up to a petaflop of…

Qualcomm brings its Snapdragon X chips to mid-range Windows laptops and desktops

January 6, 2025

Qualcomm is making a move for the mid-range PC market with a new system-on-chip. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon X, the latest chip in its Snapdragon X Series of PC processors. The company claims that the chip, built on a 4nm fabrication process, delivers up to “multi-day” battery life…

Intel shows off its latest chip lineup at CES 2025

January 6, 2025

Fresh off of its worst year since going public in 1971, Intel is announcing new chips at CES 2025 that it hopes will turn its fortunes around. The product announcement is Intel’s largest since the company’s board of directors forced out CEO Pat Gelsinger. That’s not the only reason stakes are high. Intel’s 13th- and…

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