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Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo
After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased a...
View the articleMeta’s latest experiment borrows from BeReal’s and Snapchat’s core ideas
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AI Chatbots Are Promising but Limited in Promoting Healthy Behavior Change
In recent years, the healthcare industry has witnessed a significant increase in the use of large language model-based chatbots, or generative conversational agents. These AI-powered tools have been e...
View the articleStartups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine
Welcome to Startups Weekly! We've been drowning in AI news this week, with Google's I/O setting the pace. And Elon Musk rages against the machine. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
View the articleIndieBio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises
IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in...
View the articleUnveiling the Control Panel: Key Parameters Shaping LLM Outputs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a transformative force, significantly impacting industries like healthcare, finance, and legal services. For example, a recent study by McKinsey found that...
View the articleFostering Trust: How Interactive AI Builds Trust Between Doctors and AI Diagnostics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for healthcare, offering improvements in diagnostic accuracy, reducing workloads, and enhancing patient outcomes. Despite these benefits, there is hesi...
View the articleBrushNet: Plug and Play Image Inpainting with Dual Branch Diffusion
Image inpainting is one of the classic problems in computer vision, and it aims to restore masked regions in an image with plausible and natural content. Existing work employing traditional image inpa...
View the articleYouTube TV’s ‘multiview’ feature is now available on Android phones and tablets
YouTube TV has announced that its multiview feature for watching four streams at once is now available on Android phones and tablets. The Android launch comes two months after YouTube TV rolled out th...
View the articleWillson Cross, CEO & Co-Founder of Borderless AI – Interview Series
Willson Cross is the CEO and Co-Founder of Borderless AI, an enterprise at the forefront of pioneering the application of artificial intelligence in global human resources. Under his leadership, Borde...
View the articleTwo students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free
CSC ServiceWorks provides laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities, but the company ignored requests to fix a security bug. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...
View the articleOpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person from...
View the articlePitch Deck Teardown: Goodcarbon’s $5.5M seed deck
Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there's important information missing too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use on...
View the articleHarness the TechCrunch Effect: Host a Side Event at Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is just around the corner, and the buzz is palpable. But what if we told you there’s a chance for you to not just attend, but also take your brand center stage with your own ...
View the articleSlack under attack over sneaky AI training policy
Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleOpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded
The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
View the articleHealthcare company WebTPA discloses breach affecting 2.5 million people
A Texas-based company that provides health insurance and benefit plans disclosed a data breach affecting almost 2.5 million people, some of whom had their Social Security number stolen. WebTPA said in...
View the articleMicrosoft dodges UK antitrust scrutiny over its Mistral AI stake
Microsoft won't be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment into French AI startup Mistral AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleEmbedded finance is still trendy as accounting automation startup Ember partners with HSBC UK
Ember has partnered with HSBC in the U.K. so that the bank's business customers can access Ember’s services from their online accounts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only...
View the articleIt’s Time to Believe the AI Hype
Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.
View the articleKudos lands $10M for an AI smart wallet that picks the best credit card for purchases
Kudos uses AI to figure out consumer spending habits so it can then provide more personalized financial advice, like maximizing rewards and utilizing credit effectively. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
View the articleMicrosoft warned it could be fined billions by EU over missing GenAI risk info
The European Union has warned Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc’s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), after the company failed t...
View the articleA US Trustee wants troubled fintech Synapse to be liquidated via Chapter 7 bankruptcy, cites ‘gross mismanagement’
The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have gone from bad to worse this week after a United States Trustee filed an emergency motion on Wednesday. The trustee is asking to c...
View the articleSeraphim’s latest space accelerator welcomes nine companies
U.K.-based Seraphim Space is spinning up its 13th accelerator program, with nine participating companies working on a range of tech from propulsion to in-space manufacturing and space situational awar...
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