This Week in AI: Tech giants embrace synthetic data
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This week in AI, synthetic data rose to prominence. OpenAI…
Zoom’s custom AI avatar tool may come with risks
Zoom plans to introduce a feature to let people effectively clone themselves digitally. There’s concerns that this could be misused. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum,…
How Agentic AI is Transforming Enterprises – Insights from the Forum Ventures Report
Forum Ventures, an early-stage B2B SaaS fund, accelerator, and AI venture studio, today announced the release of its latest comprehensive report, “2024: The Rise of Agentic AI in the Enterprise.”…
Changing How We Think About GenAI in the Boardroom: Navigating Short and Long-Term ROI
As leadership teams around the world begin planning for 2025, the topic on everyone’s mind is when to expect their investments in AI and/or generative AI (GenAI) to pay off.…
10 Critical AI Concepts Explained in 5 Minutes
Acquire a transversal understanding of high-relevance AI jargon in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.
Ameesh Divatia, Co-founder & CEO of Baffle – Interview Series
Ameesh Divatia is the co-founder & CEO of Baffle, a company focused on integrating data security into every aspect of the data pipeline to simplify cloud data protection and minimize…
The Rise of Open-Weight Models: How Alibaba’s Qwen2 is Redefining AI Capabilities
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way from its early days of basic rule-based systems and simple machine learning algorithms. The world is now entering a new era in…
Palantir now owns nearly 9% of EV startup Faraday Future — here’s why
Palantir now owns 8.7% of struggling electric vehicle startup Faraday Future, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The data-mining company was granted more than…
Streamer Plex rolls out movie and TV show reviews
Following its $40 million fundraise at the beginning of this year, streaming media company Plex announced on Wednesday it’s rolling out a new TV show and movie reviews feature, putting…