IT総合 Too many models
How many AI models is too many? It depends on how you look at it… but 10 a week is probably a bit much. That’...
Devin Coldewey
IT総合 IT総合 Space startups are licking their lips after NASA converts $11B Mars mission into a free-for-all
Considering how heavily both primes and space startups have been investing in interplanetary capability, this announceme...
IT総合 Betaworks bets on AI agents in latest ‘Camp’ cohort
Betaworks is embracing the AI trend not with yet another LLM, but instead a clutch of agent-type models automating every...
IT総合 Space diversity initiative builds steam with new leadership and K-12 focused National Space Day
A growing effort to attract more women and people of color into the space industry has shared some of its first results ...
IT総合 Net neutrality won’t survive a Trump presidency
Net neutrality’s long trip toward (then away from, then toward again, then away, and now once more toward) federal...
IT総合 ‘A Brief History of the Future’ offers a hopeful antidote to cynical tech takes
Cynicism is a quality taken almost for granted in tech journalism, and certainly we are as guilty as the next publicatio...
IT総合 Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions
How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techni...
IT総合 Why Trump’s digital media company is different from other money-losing startups
Former president Donald Trump’s digital media company is losing money, and lots of it. But why is that any differe...
IT総合 ChatGPT no longer requires an account – but there’s a catch
OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven’t bothered making an...
IT総合 Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment
Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it l...
IT総合 Why it’s impossible to review AIs, and why TechCrunch is doing it anyway
Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability t...
IT総合 Truth Social SPAC could pay Trump’s astronomical legal bills – if board OKs it
Donald Trump’s beleaguered SPAC deal is finally going through, and just in time to pay nearly half a billion dolla...
IT総合 Candela’s electric ferries multiply as the startup lines up $25M in new funding
Electric boat maker Candela is approaching cruising speed with $25 million in new funding and the first commercial deplo...
IT総合 After raising $1.3B, Inflection got eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft
In June 2023, Inflection announced it had raised $1.3 billion to build what it called “more personal AI.” Th...
IT総合 Why Elon Musk’s AI company ‘open-sourcing’ Grok matters – and why it doesn’t
Elon Musk’s xAI released its Grok large language model as “open source” over the weekend. The billiona...
IT総合 ‘AI-powered’ ad ignites creator controversy on Instagram
A new ad from Under Armour featuring boxer Anthony Joshua has come under fire from creatives on Instagram after its dire...
IT総合 Microbiome startups respond as industry is accused of ‘questionable practices’
The biotech sector has embraced the microbiome in recent years, a green field market powered by cheap genome sequencing ...
IT総合 Google Deepmind trains a video game-playing AI to be your co-op companion
AI models that play games go back decades, but they generally specialize in one game and always play to win. Google Deep...
IT総合 AI2 Incubator scores $200M in compute to feed needy AI startups
AI2 Incubator, spun out of the Allen Institute for AI in 2022, has secured a windfall $200 million in compute that start...
IT総合 Saildrone’s first aluminum Surveyor autonomous vessel splashes down for Navy testing
Ocean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the wa...
IT総合 Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms
Update: My mistake, arbitration terms were already in place. But the devices were in fact inaccessible until users agree...
IT総合 Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
AI is “not open in any sense,” the battle over encryption is far from won, and Signal’s principled (an...
IT総合 Why Signal ‘turned our architecture inside out’ for its latest privacy feature
Adding usernames to a messaging app may seem like a standard feature, but for Signal, such identifiers were anathema to ...
IT総合 Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu on the nature of startups: ‘Grow faster, or die faster,’ just don’t give up
Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death… the death of the company, at least. He told TechC...
IT総合 Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future
As crucial as the ocean is to countless industries, we lack the kind of systematic knowledge of it that we have of the s...
IT総合 AIs serve up ‘garbage’ to questions about voting and elections
A number of major AI services performed poorly in a test of their ability to address questions and concerns about voting...
IT総合 ‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI
Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image-genera...
IT総合 Stable Diffusion 3 arrives to solidify early lead in AI imagery against Sora and Gemini
Stability has announced Stable Diffusion 3, the latest and most powerful version of the company’s image-generating...
IT総合 Hundreds of AI luminaries sign letter calling for anti-deepfake legislation
Hundreds in the artificial intelligence community have signed an open letter calling for strict regulation of AI-generat...
IT総合 House punts on AI with directionless new task force
The House of Representatives has founded a Task Force on artificial intelligence that will “ensure America continu...