Tech companies are pledging to fight election-related deepfakes as policymakers amp up pressure. Today at the Munich Security Conference, vendors including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Adobe and IBM […]
This German nonprofit is building an open voice assistant that anyone can use
There’s been many attempts at open source AI-powered voice assistants (see Rhasspy, Mycroft and Jasper, to name a few) — all established with the goal of creating privacy-preserving, […]
New MIT CSAIL study suggests that AI won’t steal as many jobs expected
Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when? That’s the trio of questions a new research study from MIT’s Computer Science and […]
Want to build a startup off OpenAI? Start here
OpenAI’s impressive technology stack led to a wave of startups building on top of its models and offerings. This is a popular topic on TechCrunch+, where columnists spend […]
Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%
Mutual fund company Fidelity has marked down its investment in X holdings — the parent company of X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk — by 71.5% from […]
IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B
IBM is doling out €2.13 billion ($2.3 billion) to acquire a duo of data integration assets from Germany-based enterprise software company Software AG. The all-cash deal will see […]
Google unveils MedLM, a family of healthcare-focused generative AI models
Google thinks that there’s an opportunity to offload more healthcare tasks to generative AI models — or at least, an opportunity to recruit those models to aid healthcare […]
Elon Musk brings Alex Jones and Infowars back on X after user poll
Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from […]
This week in AI: Mistral and the EU’s fight for AI sovereignty
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in […]
X’s AI chatbot Grok now ‘rolled out to all’ U.S. Premium+ subscribers, English language users are next
Yesterday, X began rolling out Grok, the “rebellious” AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI startup, to Premium+ subscribers on X’s platform. Today, Musk says that Grok’s rollout […]