Supio uses generative AI to automate bulk data collection and aggregation for legal teams. It emerged from stealth Tuesday with a $25 million investment.
Generative AI models aren’t actually humanlike. They have no intelligence or personality — they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence. But like interns at a…
At least 200 workers at DeepMind, Google’s AI R&D division, are displeased with Google’s reported defense contracts — and according to Time, they circulated a letter internally back in May…
Soon, parents in range of Waymo robotaxis might not have to worry about picking up their kids from after-school activities — or any time, really. The San Francisco Standard reports…
This week, surveys suggest that Gen Z — regularly the subject of mainstream media fascination — has very mixed opinions on AI.
OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired — to surface stories from its properties in…
Sarah Buchner started as a carpenter when she was 12 — now her AI construction startup has raised $20 million
Construction companies deal with a lot of documents — so many that it can be difficult to process and manage them all. According to one recent survey, a third of…
Eppo has closed a new funding round that values the company at over $100 million.
The AI boom is fueling the demand for data centers and, in turn, driving up water consumption. (Water is used to cool the computing equipment inside data centers.) According to…
What’s the point of chatting with a human-like bot if it’s an unreliable narrator — and has a colorless personality? That’s the question I’ve been turning over in my head…
In this post, we explain the many Microsoft Copilots available and what they do, and highlight the key differences between each.
Code reviews — peer reviews of code that help devs improve code quality — are time-consuming. According to one source, 50% of companies spend two to five hours a week…
The research suggest that models aren’t hallucinating much less, despite claims to the contrary from OpenAI, Anthropic and the other big AI players.
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, a new study shows that generative AI really isn’t all that harmful — at least not in the…
EliseAI employs an army of chatbots to text with, email, and respond to calls from renters about things such as apartment tours, maintenance requests, lease renewals and delinquencies.
We rounded up some of the more intriguing AI-related announcements that didn’t get a ton of play, like Pixel Studio.
Gemini Live lets users have “in-depth” voice chats with Gemini, Google’s generative AI-powered chatbot, on their smartphones.
Labeling and annotation platforms might not get the attention flashy new generative AI models do. But they’re essential. The data on which many models train must be labeled, or the…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing a crypto startup, NovaTech, for allegedly fraudulently raising more than $650 million from over 200,000 investors, many in the Haitian-American community.…
OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the generative AI model that powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, is the company’s first trained on voice as well as text and…
OpenAI has announced a new appointment to its board of directors: Zico Kolter. Kolter, a professor and director of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, predominantly focuses his research…
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, OpenAI lost another co-founder. John Schulman, who played a pivotal role in the development of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered…
Digital transformation — the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows — can be a risky undertaking. In 2023, Harvard Business Review reported that…
Napkin wants to use generative AI to make turning text into visualizations as easy as clicking on a button and customizing the results.
Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the…
Hyperspace, a Tel Aviv-based startup, says its custom cloud instances for database searches can dramatically speed up queries.
John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. In addition, OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman is taking an extended leave…
Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million — has been spreading false information about Vice President Kamala Harris…
Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store.…
By collecting this data, OpenAI “profited significantly” from the creators’ work, the complaint alleges.