Unlike X, Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
Bluesky, a social network that’s experiencing a surge in users this week as users abandon X, says it has “no intention” of using user content to train generative AI tools.…
Apple Researchers Propose Cut Cross-Entropy (CCE): A Machine Learning Method that Computes the Cross-Entropy Loss without Materializing the Logits for all Tokens into Global Memory
Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, with applications spanning text generation, translation, and summarization. These models rely on large amounts of data, large parameter counts,…
Nexa AI Releases OmniVision-968M: World’s Smallest Vision Language Model with 9x Tokens Reduction for Edge Devices
Edge AI has long faced the challenge of balancing efficiency and effectiveness. Deploying Vision Language Models (VLMs) on edge devices is difficult due to their large size, high computational demands,…
Meshy AI Review: How I Generated 3D Models in One Minute
Have you ever spent hours (or even days) painstakingly creating 3D models, only to feel like the creative process gets bogged down in tedious technical details? As someone with experience…
NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents
Newly unsealed documents brought by a WhatsApp lawsuit shows NSO Group’s spyware, Pegasus, was used to hack as many as “tens of thousands” of devices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
OpenAI at one point considered acquiring AI chip startup Cerebras
OpenAI was at one point considering acquiring Cerabras, an AI chipmaking company that’s in the process of going public, according to new legal filings. Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI…
The US IPO window hasn’t reopened yet, but startups take what they can
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here! Despite the…
‘I went to Greenland to try to buy it’: Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth
Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
‘AI granny’ scambaiter wastes telephone fraudsters’ time with boring chat
Telephone scams are nothing new, but with the advent of AI, it has become harder than ever for people to know whether the person they’re speaking to is in fact…
Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $170 million extension round
American drone manufacturer Skydio has raised an extension round of $170 million, adding onto the $230 million Series E it closed early last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.…