The EU Digital Identity Wallet is an ambitious project by the European Union that’s still a bit under the radar but worth paying attention to, as it could […]
Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women […]
What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?
The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the burgeoning artificial intelligence space, with […]
Google pauses its experiment that permitted real-money games on the Play Store
Google said today that it is globally pausing its experiment of allowing real-money games on the Play Store. In January, the company said it would start allowing real-money […]
All the media companies that have licensing deals with OpenAI (so far)
OpenAI has been busy trying to curry favor (and fighting copyright infringement lawsuits) with media companies to use their content. Here’s a roundup of all the publications that have agreed to licensing deals with the ChatGPT maker.
Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension
Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a year-long […]
How gamification sparked the AI era in tech
A look at how the fun side of AI lit the fuse of the latest tech boom.
Apple’s Spotlight Search gets better at natural language queries in iOS 18
Even as Apple embraces AI in iOS 18, it’s working to improve users’ ability to get answers in a more traditional way: through its Spotlight Search feature. Accessed […]