Devin Coldewey

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Sustainable Ocean Alliance marks 10 years with ocean-friendly startup label and a new batch of ‘ecopreneurs’

Over the last decade, the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has graduated from dorm room activism to a thousands-strong global ...
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Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good

Aimed at maintaining well-being, Sing is a VR app that you can sing out loud with when you're home alone. © 2024 TechCr...
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Evinced’s $55M C round will help bring its accessibility dev tools (and AI) to Europe

Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave...
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Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? OpenAI says privacy tool went rogue

Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatb...
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Why does the name ‘David Mayer’ crash ChatGPT? Digital privacy requests may be at fault

Users of the conversational AI platform ChatGPT discovered an interesting phenomenon over the weekend: the popular chatb...
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SpaceX gets FCC green light for Starlink direct-to-phone deal with T-Mobile

The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to go forward with plans to offer a direct-to-phone version of its Starlink satell...
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Cradle builds out its protein-design AI platform (and wet lab) with $73M in new funding

Using AI to accelerate biotech is fast becoming standard practice, and companies offering services to deploy the tech qu...
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AI2’s open source Tulu 3 lets anyone play the AI post-training game

Ask anyone in the open source AI community, and they will tell you the gap between them and the big private companies is...
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Candela brings its P-12 electric ferry to Tahoe and adds another $14M to build more

Electric passenger boat startup Candela has topped off its most recent raise with another $14 million, the company annou...
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OpenAI’s tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others

A lawsuit by the world’s wealthiest man against one of the fastest growing companies of all time is necessarily in...
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Mission Space launches next quarter to provide real-time space weather forecasts

When you board a plane, the pilot already knows the weather on the flight path and can steer clear, or at least warn you...
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Generative disinfo is real — you’re just not the target, warns deepfake tracking nonprofit

Many feared that the 2024 election would be affected, and perhaps decided, by AI-generated disinformation. While there w...
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Intuitive Machines CEO: ‘We now have the platform for a lunar economy’

Steve Altemus is optimistic. And as CEO of Intuitive Machines, which made history with the first ever successful moon la...
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ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes

Now that the election is over, the dissection can begin. As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a sig...
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Perplexity CEO offers AI company’s services to replace striking NYT staff

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mit...
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Microsoft and a16z set aside differences, join hands in plea against AI regulation

Two of the biggest forces in two deeply intertwined tech ecosystems — large incumbents and startups — have taken a break...
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Clashing approaches to combat AI’s ‘perpetual bulls**t machine’

The AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 got off to a fiery but constructive start on a panel about combating disinformat...
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Wonder Dynamics now lets you go straight from multi-camera video to fully animated 3D scene

Wonder Dynamics made a strong opening play in AI-enhanced visual effects, providing tools animators and filmmakers actua...
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Archon emerges from stealth with $20M and ‘antibody cages’ to power up drug development

Archon Biosciences, a biotech startup putting AI to work designing novel biomolecules, has just emerged from stealth wit...
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Haptic’s touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking

Smartphones and navigation apps have become second nature these days. But for those with blindness and low vision, it&#8...
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MabLab’s improved drug and drink testing strips could make for safer streets and venues

For anyone who parties or goes out dancing, the risk of accidentally taking adulterated drugs is a real one. MabLab, pre...
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Generative AI could cause 10 billion iPhones worth of e-waste per year by 2030

The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste ...
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FTC hits Lyft with $2.1M penalty for luring drivers with false earnings claims

Lyft has agreed to a $2.1 million settlement proposed by the FTC over the car-hailing company’s “deceptive e...
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Ex-SpaceX engineers land $14M to scale new method for 3D printing metal

3D printing objects using metal is a well-established technique, but it tends to be too complex, expensive, or imprecise...
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‘Blade Runner 2049’ producer accuses Musk and Tesla of circumventing copyright with AI imagery

In an interesting variation of the usual “stop stealing our stuff” lawsuit already deployed dozens of times ...
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‘Content kleptocracy’: News Corp outlets sue Perplexity over scraped stories

News Corp’s Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a “...
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Can AI sandbag safety checks to sabotage users? Yes, but not very well — for now

AI companies claim to have robust safety checks in place that ensure that models don’t say or do weird, illegal, o...
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The Analogue 3D drags the fondly remembered N64 into the 21st century

Who among us (and by “us” I mean elder millennials) does not remember the glory days of Goldeneye deathmatch...
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OroraTech’s space-based wildfire detection brings in $25M to put more imaging satellites in orbit

Wildfires aren’t going away, but our ability to detect and track them — and maybe catch them early enough to preve...
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Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic datacenters

Photonic computing startup Lightmatter has raised $400 million to blow one of modern datacenters’ bottlenecks wide...
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