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Anthropic submits AI policy recommendations to the White House

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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5 Best Squarespace Alternatives in 2025

If Squarespace isn’t the right fit for your website, these top alternatives offer better pricing, flexibility, and customization.

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

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Alibaba shares soar after Chinese tech giant unveils new DeepSeek rival

Chinese tech giant Alibaba said its latest AI reasoning model, QwQ-32B, “rivals cutting-edge reasoning model, e.g., DeepSeek-R1.”

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UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites

The UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demands © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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

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 … Continue reading

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Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors

The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Month of bank IT failures in the last two years, MPs say

The MPs have also discovered millions of pounds of compensation will be paid out because of the spate of outages.

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