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The lesson of Larry Ellison’s misadventures in farming
Larry Ellison’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: being a genius in one arena doesn’t mean success in another. As the WSJ reports, the Oracle co-found...
View the articleFormaloo Review: Why It’s the Ultimate Form Builder for You
Have you ever spent hours trying to create a simple online form, only to end up frustrated by limited customization and clunky interfaces? According to research, businesses waste an average of 26% of ...
View the articleGoogle’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second
Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December. According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of vi...
View the articleHyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short
The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is as good as ever, but doesn’t play well with Tesla Superchargers at the moment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articlePalantir CEO’s new book says Silicon Valley has ‘lost its way’
Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp opens his new book with a provocative declaration: “Silicon Valley has lost its way.” Over the past decade or so, as the data analytics company rose to p...
View the articleElectric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new sca...
View the articleThis mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schools
As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny to help. As described in the Wall S...
View the articleGrok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
When billionaire Elon Musk introduced Grok 3, his AI company xAI’s latest flagship model, in a live stream last Monday, he described it as a “maximally truth-seeking AI.” Yet it appears that Gro...
View the articleHow AI is Transforming Journalism: The New York Times’ Approach with Echo
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how news is researched, written, and delivered. A 2023 report by JournalismAI, a research initiative at the London School of Economics (LSE), found that 85% of...
View the articleGoogle’s AI Co-Scientist vs. OpenAI’s Deep Research vs. Perplexity’s Deep Research: A Comparison of AI Research Agents
Rapid advancements in AI have brought about the emergence of AI research agents—tools designed to assist researchers by handling vast amounts of data, automating repetitive tasks, and even generatin...
View the articleDid xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?
Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleadin...
View the articleUS AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported t...
View the articleHow I Podcast: Summer Album / Winter Album’s Jody Avirgan
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth o...
View the articleThe pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online
We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs,...
View the articleThe fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth...
View the articleTrump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide
The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report ...
View the articleExplore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’
Apple has been steadily working to expand the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” through online materials, e-books, podcasts, and other content – and so have its fans. Taking advantage o...
View the articleThe Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week
Plus: Apple’s visionOS 2.4 makes it easier for guests to use the Vision Pro, Eero has two new Wi-Fi 7 routers, Oppo’s folding phone is the slimmest yet, and Omega drops a bronze Bond watch.
View the articleReinforcement Learning Meets Chain-of-Thought: Transforming LLMs into Autonomous Reasoning Agents
Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), excelling at text generation, translation, and summarization tasks. However, their ability to engage in logi...
View the articleMeta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds
Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country’s federal elections, according to new research f...
View the articleCourt filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training
For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thu...
View the articleBrian Armstrong says Coinbase spent $50M fighting SEC lawsuit — and beat it
Coinbase on Friday said the SEC has agreed to drop the lawsuit against the company with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again. The move, which is still subject to the approval of the SEC’s C...
View the articleGoogle’s New AI “Co-Scientist” Aims to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
Imagine a research partner that has read every scientific paper you have, tirelessly brainstorming new experiments around the clock. Google is trying to turn this vision into reality with a new AI sys...
View the articleiOS 18.4 will bring Apple Intelligence-powered ‘Priority Notifications’
Apple on Friday released its first developer beta for iOS 18.4, which adds a new “Priority Notifications” feature, powered by Apple Intelligence. The addition aims to help users manage their notif...
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