Armenia’s 10web brings AI website-building to WordPress
Generative AI has done an impressive job in improving productivity in a wide range of areas, including website building. There’s no lack of tools that now allow one to generate…
Reddit says it’s made $203M so far licensing its data
Reddit’s prospects as it barrels toward a stock market listing have a lot more to do with relationships with AI vendors such as OpenAI than one might expect. In its…
Women in AI: Krystal Kauffman, research fellow at the Distributed AI Research Institute
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 who’ve contributed…
Match Group inks deal with OpenAI, says press release written by ChatGPT
In a press release written with help from ChatGPT, Match Group announced an enterprise agreement with the AI chatbot’s maker, OpenAI. The new agreement includes over 1,000 enterprise licenses for…
Women In AI: Lee Tiedrich, AI expert at the Global Partnership on AI
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 who’ve contributed…
Dili wants to automate due diligence with AI
Stephanie Song, formerly on the corporate development and ventures team at Coinbase, was often frustrated by the volume of due diligence tasks she and her team had to complete on…
Family tragedy for former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Earlier this week, the 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead at UC Berkeley of an apparent drug overdose, according to…
Women In AI: Eva Maydell, member of European Parliament and EU AI Act advisor
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 who’ve contributed…
Women In AI: Irene Solaiman, head of global policy at Hugging Face
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 who’ve contributed…
The women in AI making a difference
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 who’ve contributed…
AI-generated images in scientific studies are a huge concern now
A new paper featured in the journal Frontiers has been retracted. The retraction came after multiple users reported issues with the images and figures featured in the study. Titled Cellular…
Poor people need not apply for this dating app
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. I’m…
Tech giants sign voluntary pledge to fight election-related deepfakes
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 signed an…
FTC seeks to modify rule to combat deepfakes
Spurred by the growing threat of deepfakes, the FTC is seeking to modify an existing rule that bans the impersonation of businesses or government agencies to cover all consumers. The…
This German nonprofit is building an open voice assistant that anyone can use
There have 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, offline…
Google makes more Gemini models available to developers
Google is expanding the range of Gemini large language models it is making available to developers on its Vertex AI platform today. Gemini 1.0 Pro (which was still known as…
Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’
In November, Airbnb acquired a stealth AI firm launched by Siri’s co-founder, called GamePlanner.AI. The deal valued the secretive startup at around $200 million, according to reports. Though the hosting…
ChatGPT performance could improve if OpenAI adds this feature
A group of researchers working with MIT have come up with a solution to a baffling problem with ChatGPT and other large language models. As these models talk to users,…
Otter brings GenAI to your meetings with AI summaries, AI chat and more
Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real-time is adding another layer of AI to its product with today’s introduction of Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI…
Peak XV takes startups on a Silicon Valley trip in AI push
Peak XV, the venture capital firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year, is taking its portfolio companies from India, Southeast Asia and Australia on an “immersion” trip to Silicon…
Robocalls that use AI-generated voices are now illegal, rules FCC
Robocalls have been a plague on society for years, but they made headlines recently when an AI-generated robocall imitating President Joe Biden’s voice told New Hampshire Democrats not to vote…
Arm’s gains are SoftBank’s gains
Not so long ago, things were looking bleak for SoftBank, the investment holding company headed by eclectic — and controversial — tech mogul Masayoshi Son. The Vision Fund, SoftBank’s venture…
Google saves your conversations with Gemini for years by default
Don’t type anything into Gemini, Google’s family of GenAI apps, that’s incriminating — or that you wouldn’t want someone else to see. That’s the PSA (of sorts) today from Google,…
OpenAI forms a new team to study child safety
Under scrutiny from activists — and parents — OpenAI has formed a new team to study ways to prevent its AI tools from being misused or abused by kids. In…
Microsoft wants you to take over the world with its Copilot AI
YOU. Microsoft wants you to take over the world with AI. That’s the one word that makes this all veer slightly away from being an ad for the next Terminator…
Microsoft brings new design-focused features to Copilot
Copilot, Microsoft’s family of AI-powered chatbots and assistants, is getting a few new upgrades timed with a flashy Superbowl LVIII ad campaign. In a post on the official Microsoft blog,…
3D scanning app Polycam gets backing from YouTube co-founder
Polycam, an app that uses a smartphone’s sensors to capture 3D scans of objects, is raising cash from prominent investors including Adobe and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. Polycam today announced…
AI scammer steals $25 million with brilliant deepfake scam
While artificial intelligence becoming sentient and taking over the world is an increasingly valid concern, the technology is already incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands. Over the weekend, the South…
AI Super Bowl predictions say Chiefs will win again
While others are looking to experts to make predictions about who will win the upcoming Super Bowl, Tom’s Guide AI editor Ryan Morrison took his questions to the three biggest…
This Week in AI: Do shoppers actually want Amazon’s GenAI?
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 the world…
Hire mindset over skill set
Joshua Wöhle Contributor Joshua Wöhle is CEO at Mindstone, transforming daily learning from articles, podcasts, and videos into a quantifiable skills profile, much like LinkedIn. He personalizes your learning experience…
The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable
You know you’ve screwed up when you’ve simultaneously angered the White House, the TIME Person of the Year, and pop culture’s most rabid fanbase. That’s what happened last week to…
Semron wants to replace chip transistors with ‘memcapacitors’
A new Germany-based startup, Semron, is developing what it describes as “3D-scaled” chips to run AI models locally on smartphones, earbuds, VR headsets and other mobile devices Co-created by Kai-Uwe…
OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelines
OpenAI hopes to win the trust of parents — and policymakers — by partnering with organizations that work to minimize tech and media harms to kids, preteens and teens. Case…
As layoffs deepen, AI’s role in the cuts is murky – but it definitely has one
Layoffs season is extending into a sustained state, defying more typical formations of cyclical boom and bust periods in tech. Meanwhile, AI continues to be ascendant — or at least…
iRobot and Amazon call it quits, terminate acquisition agreement
Amazon has ended its bid to acquire iRobot, the maker of robotic vacuums, after running up against stiff headwinds with European regulators. In a press release, the companies said that…
Refact aims to make code-generating AI more appealing to enterprises
In 2021, Oleg Klimov, Vlad Guber and Oleg Kiyasko set out to co-create a platform, Refact.ai, that could convince more companies to embrace GenAI for coding by affording users more…
Byju’s seeks to raise $200 million in rights issue amid cash crunch
Byju’s, the world’s most valuable edtech startup, launched a rights issue on Monday, seeking to raise $200 million as the Indian firm works to address its working capital issues. The…
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Spotify calls Apple’s DMA compliance plan ‘extortion’ and a ‘complete and total farce’
Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideloading apps, alternative app stores,…