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Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, having said for … Continue reading

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Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model

Anthropic’s newest AI model has arrived. But it’s pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic’s other models, can’t analyze images just yet. Claude 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced last month, matches or bests the performance of Claude 3 … Continue reading

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The brightest bling of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our team sits front and center, furiously typing away at our laptops to publish real-time news from impressive speakers like NFL quarterback-turned-founder Colin Kaepernick, Perplexity AI founder Aravind Srinivas, and Ashton Kutcher. We are a well-oiled machine. … Continue reading

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Anduril is considering Arizona, Ohio, or Texas for its massive manufacturing facility, source says

Anduril, the defense tech company co-founded by Palmer Luckey, is considering building its first major manufacturing plant, a 5-million-square-foot facility known as “Arsenal-1,” in Arizona, Ohio or Texas, according to someone familiar with the matter.  The company, which is developing … Continue reading

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Built in four days, this $120 robot arm cleans a spill with help from GPT-4o

Large language models have already proven transformative for robotics. While researchers and companies alike utilize the platforms to supercharge robotic learning, a pair of roboticists at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich challenged themselves by leveraging generative AI to put a … Continue reading

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Columbus says ransomware gang stole personal data of 500,000 Ohio residents

Columbus says hackers accessed resident’s Social Security numbers and bank account details © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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No, startups shouldn’t always take the highest valuation, seed VCs say

One of the lessons that the wild Silicon Valley venture funding environment of the past few years has clearly taught is this: Bigger valuations are not always better. “I think we’ve all kind of seen the negative impact of having … Continue reading

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ChatGPT Search is not OpenAI’s ‘Google killer’ yet

OpenAI’s search offers a glimpse of what an AI-search interface could one day look like. But it’s too impractical as a daily driver right now. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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U.S. laws regulating AI prove elusive, but there may be hope

Can the U.S. meaningfully regulate AI? It’s not at all clear yet. Policymakers have achieved progress in recent months, but they’ve also had setbacks, illustrating the challenging nature of laws imposing guardrails on the technology. In March, Tennessee became the first … Continue reading

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Vanguard cuts Indian ride-share startup Ola’s valuation to $2B

Vanguard has revised its valuation of Indian ride-hailing startup Ola to about $2 billion as of the end of August. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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