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Social network Bluesky will soon give its users more control over who can reply to their posts. Confirmed by Bluesky developer Paul Frazee, Bluesky will add a new “followers only” setting that users can configure to limit replies. In addition, … Continue reading →

France’s public investment bank announced that it plans to invest as much as €10 billion (around $10.3 billion at current exchange rates) in the artificial intelligence ecosystem in France. This announcement comes a few days before heads of state and … Continue reading →

Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to support the study of systemic risks — such as to elections and other democratic … Continue reading →

Hackers with Russian foreign intelligence were blamed for the breach, which also targeted Microsoft. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with instructions to precisely steer an AI chatbot to serve useful output. So think … Continue reading →

Pinterest listed the latest attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a possible business risk in its latest 10-K filing.  The company wrote in its filing to investors that if its efforts around DEI “are perceived as insufficient or overdone,” … Continue reading →

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and schools transitioned to online learning, both Joe Titus and Paul Suhr were concerned about how to maintain their children’s activity levels in the absence of mandatory physical education classes and sports. The … Continue reading →

The states plan to file the lawsuit in defense of Americans’ “right to privacy.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Apple is likely to stop providing its encrypted cloud service to U.K. users © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power them have a ton of useful applications, but for all their promise, they’re not very reliable. No one knows when this problem will be solved, so it makes sense that we’re … Continue reading →