Elon Musk-led team submits $97.4B bid for OpenAI
A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted a $97.6 billion bid to purchase OpenAI on Monday. The news comes by way of Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed…
Google expands NotebookLM Plus to individual users
Google has expanded NotebookLM Plus to users subscribed to the Google One AI Premium plan. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google DeepMind Introduces AlphaGeometry2: A Significant Upgrade to AlphaGeometry Surpassing the Average Gold Medalist in Solving Olympiad Geometry
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a globally recognized competition that challenges high school students with complex mathematical problems. Among its four categories, geometry stands out as the most consistent…
Bird cuts 120 jobs as part of ‘strategic realignment’
Bird, formerly MessageBird, has cut 120 jobs — roughly one-third of its workforce — as the startup plans to realign its global operations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
OpenAI spoke to government officials about its DeepSeek probe
OpenAI says it has spoken to government officials about its ongoing investigation into DeepSeek. The ChatGPT-maker previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained…
Efficient Alignment of Large Language Models Using Token-Level Reward Guidance with GenARM
Large language models (LLMs) must align with human preferences like helpfulness and harmlessness, but traditional alignment methods require costly retraining and struggle with dynamic or conflicting preferences. Test-time alignment approaches…
TikTok wants Android users to sideload its app
With TikTok’s fate in the U.S. uncertain — its ban in the country has been paused, but only temporarily, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump — the…
Apple fixes iPhone and iPad bug used in an ‘extremely sophisticated attack’
Unknown attackers may have exploited a zero-day bug to access data on locked phones, according to Apple. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Macron urges Europe to simplify its regulations to get back into the AI race
All eyes were on French President Emmanuel Macron Sunday at the end of the first day of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris after he announced a €109 billion…
Rivian opens commercial van sales to all businesses
Rivian will sell its commercial electric vans to any U.S. business that wants one — more than a year since ending an exclusivity deal with backer Amazon. The company will…