Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI
The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers. The…
Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model
Anthropic’s newest AI model has arrived. But it’s pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic’s other models, can’t analyze images just yet. Claude 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced…
How to Summarize Texts Using the BART Model with Hugging Face Transformers
To summarize text using Hugging Face’s BART model, load the model and tokenizer, input the text, and the model generates a concise summary.
The brightest bling of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
At TechCrunch Disrupt, our team sits front and center, furiously typing away at our laptops to publish real-time news from impressive speakers like NFL quarterback-turned-founder Colin Kaepernick, Perplexity AI founder…
Anduril is considering Arizona, Ohio, or Texas for its massive manufacturing facility, source says
Anduril, the defense tech company co-founded by Palmer Luckey, is considering building its first major manufacturing plant, a 5-million-square-foot facility known as “Arsenal-1,” in Arizona, Ohio or Texas, according to…
Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
To combat the perception that its “open” AI is aiding foreign adversaries, Meta today said that it’s making its Llama series of AI models available to U.S. government agencies and…
DeepRoute raises $100M in push to beat Tesla’s FSD in China
DeepRoute.ai, a Shenzhen-based autonomous driving technology startup, raised $100 million from an unidentified Chinese automaker. The company aims to get its automated driving systems into as many vehicles in China…
How AI is Revolutionizing Business Credit Repair
Maintaining strong business credit is crucial for companies of all sizes. However, keeping business credit reports error-free and optimized is no small task. Most of us can relate to the…
Built in four days, this $120 robot arm cleans a spill with help from GPT-4o
Large language models have already proven transformative for robotics. While researchers and companies alike utilize the platforms to supercharge robotic learning, a pair of roboticists at UC Berkeley and ETH…
7 Critical Thinking Skills Needed in Data Science
Hone these analytical and practical thinking skills to become an authentic “data wizard”.