Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion
Stripe is in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion, according to Forbes. The talks are reportedly in advanced stages, although nothing has been finalized. Bridge,…
Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt…
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity
Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto startup that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its name and is now just “World.”…
Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’
Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools, they need filmmakers to show they can be used responsibly.
All mobile phones must be hearing aid compatible under new FCC rules
The FCC Thursday issued rules requiring that all mobile phones — including smartphones — sold in the U.S. be compatible with hearing aids. The news comes two years after the…
Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products
Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers’ networks during that two-week window. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’
This week, OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting its commitment to the principles of “broad access” and “collaboration,” OpenAI said…
DeepMind’s Michelangelo Benchmark: Revealing the Limits of Long-Context LLMs
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to advance, the ability to process and understand long sequences of information is becoming more vital. AI systems are now used for complex tasks like…
AI could help people find common ground during deliberations
Reaching a consensus in a democracy is difficult because people hold such different ideological, political, and social views. Perhaps an AI tool could help. Researchers from Google DeepMind trained a…
Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft
One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn’t cured cancer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.…