Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year
Defense tech startups have raised almost $3 billion so far in 2024, surpassing the previous record from 2022 of $2.6 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Messenger gets HD video calls, AI backgrounds, and more
Meta is introducing new features for Messenger, its messaging app, including AI-powered noise suppression. Messenger is getting HD video calls and voice isolation, both of which can be enabled via…
DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google, claiming the search giant is in breach of several areas where…
This Week in AI: Congressional commission warns of Chinese AGI
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. America’s AI war with China is intensifying — or at…
The Man Behind Amazon’s Robot Army Wants Everyone to Have an AI-Powered Helper
Brad Porter helped Amazon deploy an army of warehouse robots. His new creation—Proxie—could help other companies embrace more automation.
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On December 3, WIRED will be sitting down with some of the biggest names in technology, business, science, and beyond for a full day packed with in-depth conversations.
How to Implement Named Entity Recognition with Hugging Face Transformers
Let’s take a look at how we can perform NER using that Swiss army knife of NLP and LLM libraries, Hugging Face’s Transformers.
Dr. James Tudor, MD, VP of AI at XCath – Interview Series
Dr. James Tudor, MD, spearheads the integration of AI into XCath’s robotics systems. Driven by a passion for the convergence of technology and medicine, he enthusiastically balances his roles as…
Why Your AI Company Isn’t Getting Noticed (and What You Can Do About It)
As of 2024, there are approximately 70,000 AI companies worldwide, contributing to a global AI market value of nearly $200 billion. With daily advancements in machine learning, natural language processing,…
Your AI is More Powerful Than You Think
A team of scientists just found something that changes a lot of what we thought we knew about AI capabilities. Your models aren’t just processing information – they are developing…