SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist…
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Researchers from AMLab and CuspAI Introduced Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
Deep learning faces difficulties when applied to large physical systems on irregular grids, especially when interactions occur over long distances or at multiple scales. Handling these complexities becomes harder as…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for…
Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to…
US lawmakers have already introduce hundreds of AI bills in 2025
Just over two months into 2025, the number of pending AI bills in the U.S. has grown to 781, according to an online tracking tool. The tool, maintained by consulting…
‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
Cybersecurity, Role of AI in Software Development and Requirements for Modern Specialists
The actions of hackers are increasingly presenting new challenges in the field of cybersecurity. Protecting applications from unauthorized intrusion – in which areas is this task most relevant? To what…
Microsoft AI Introduces Belief State Transformer (BST): Enhancing Goal-Conditioned Sequence Modeling with Bidirectional Context
Transformer models have transformed language modeling by enabling large-scale text generation with emergent properties. However, they struggle with tasks that require extensive planning. Researchers have explored modifications in architecture, objectives,…
Discord is discussing an IPO
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Threads tests adding ‘interests’ on profiles to connect users with topical discussions
Meta’s Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network. Instead of only advertising to profile visitors…