This Week in AI: Musk bids for OpenAI
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The billionaires are fighting again. On Monday, Elon Musk, the…
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Las Vegas just got a Netflix restaurant
You can now dine out on dishes inspired by Netflix movies and shows at Las Vegas’s newest restaurant. Netflix Bites is open as of this week in the MGM Grand…
Security compliance firm Drata acquires SafeBase for $250M
Drata, a security compliance automation platform that helps companies adhere to frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR, has acquired software security review startup SafeBase for $250 million. SafeBase co-founders…
Watch these Google DeepMind robots play a game of soccer
Watch out, FIFA. Researchers at Google DeepMind published a demonstration of miniature humanoid robots playing a one-on-one game of soccer. Training Robotis OP3, the researchers found they were able to…
VC Sheel Mohnot talks about Twitter fame, fintech, and the truth about AI startups
If you follow fintech on X, it’s very likely that you have come across the account of Sheel Mohnot, co-founder and general partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures. With over 150,000…
Convergence Labs Introduces the Large Memory Model (LM2): A Memory-Augmented Transformer Architecture Designed to Address Long Context Reasoning Challenges
Transformer-based models have significantly advanced natural language processing (NLP), excelling in various tasks. However, they struggle with reasoning over long contexts, multi-step inference, and numerical reasoning. These challenges arise from…
Complete Guide: Kore.ai vs. ChatGPT for Business and Tech
Choosing the right AI solution is key to shaping your tech stack and optimizing your business processes. In this Complete Guide on Kore.ai vs. ChatGPT, we’ve explored how these two…
Adobes Firefly generativa AI-videoapp är nu i offentlig beta
Adobe lanserar Firefly Video Model, en banbrytande AI-modell för videoskapande som kombinerar video-, bild- och vektorgenerering i en enda applikation. Modellen är IP-vänlig och kommersiellt säker, tränad på licensierat innehåll.…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns of ‘race’ to understand AI as it becomes more powerful
Right after the end of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei called the event a “missed opportunity.” He added that “greater focus and urgency…
Six months after raising $29M, Candid Health nabs another $52.5M to ease medical billing
With over 1,000 insurance companies in the U.S., figuring out how to get paid by each company is a complex challenge for doctors and hospitals. Each insurance may require slightly…