From: today

X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder

Tech Crunch Social

X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service by 37.5%, marking the largest price increase since the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022. The Premium+ service costs $22 monthly i...

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Sriram Krishnan named Trump’s senior policy advisor for AI

Tech Crunch AI

Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White Hous...

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From: yesterday

Palantir and Anduril reportedly building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts

Tech Crunch AI

Two big defense tech players, Palantir and Anduril, are talking to tech companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, according to ...

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From: yesterday

Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’

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With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. “We’re going to have to ...

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From: yesterday

OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

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OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or anything else it’s released. These improvements appear to have come from s...

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From: yesterday

The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker

Tech Crunch Startups

Autonomous vehicle technology and electrification startups were once the darlings of the VC and corporate world. The two technologies promised billions of dollars in revenue — and a new pathway for ...

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From: yesterday

Apple might be working on a smart doorbell

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There’s been a lot of reporting in recent months around Apple’s efforts to expand its footprint in customers’ homes with in-development products like a wall-mounted smart home hub. According to ...

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From: yesterday

Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

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LLM models are already capable of diagnosing scientific outputs, but, until now, had “no physical agency to actually perform" experiments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use ...

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From: yesterday

The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language

Ai News Science

With big cash prizes at stake—and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us?

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Sora AI Review: Will AI Replace Videographers For Good?

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Have you ever wanted to create high-quality videos from nothing but words? In February 2024, OpenAI unveiled Sora, an AI system capable of creating photorealistic videos from text prompts that can be ...

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From: 2 days ago

OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

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OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. ...

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From: 2 days ago

OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

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Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last — and biggest — announcement from its “12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s potential entrance into the foldable ma...

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From: 2 days ago

Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Google has offered up its own proposal in a recent antitrust case that saw the US Department of Justice argue that Google must sell its Chrome browser. US District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in Augu...

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From: 2 days ago

If climate tech is dead, what comes next?

Tech Crunch Climate

Climate tech is about a decade old, and people are itching for a rebrand. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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From: 2 days ago

Hollywood angels: Here are the celebrities who are also star VCs

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Becoming a venture capitalist has become the latest status symbol In Hollywood.  Everyone from Olivia Wilde to Emma Watson is investing in startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...

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From: 2 days ago

Google Says It Won't Force Gemini on Partners in Antitrust Remedy Proposal

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Google dominated the last era of search. Now the company and the US Justice Department are battling over how to set a fair playing field for generative AI.

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From: 2 days ago

Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem

Tech Crunch Startups

On November 15, Peter Wang posted a message requesting ideas for a new incubator and fund to support experimental projects built on the burgeoning Bluesky/AT Protocol ecosystem. Four weeks later, Skys...

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From: 2 days ago

Music Can Thrive in the AI Era

Ai News Culture

It’s past time we applauded the creative skills of LLMs—and it might make us appreciate humans more too.

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From: 2 days ago

Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration

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Sam Altman dismissed what he called a "conspiracy theory" from a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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From: 2 days ago

EV startup Canoo places remaining employees on a ‘mandatory unpaid break’

Tech Crunch Transportation

Struggling electric van startup Canoo has placed its remaining employees on what it’s calling a “mandatory unpaid break” through at least the end of the year, according to an email obtained by T...

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From: 3 days ago

Ecologists find computer vision models’ blind spots in retrieving wildlife images

MIT Research

Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific p...

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From: 3 days ago

After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed

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On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got “cancelled." They used the hate to launch a new product, raise $1 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....

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From: 3 days ago

Third member of LockBit ransomware gang has been arrested

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LockBit is believed tobe responsible for at least $500 million in ransom payments alone. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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From: 3 days ago

Feds clear the way for robotaxis without steering wheels and pedals

Tech Crunch Transportation

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Friday proposed a new national framework that could make it easier for companies to deploy at scale autonomous vehicles without traditiona...

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