IT総合 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...
Devin Coldewey
IT総合 IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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 ...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 ‘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 ...
IT総合 ‘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 “...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 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...
IT総合 Fable adds cognitive and hearing impairments to its accessibility tools with $25M round
Fable has gained a reputation as the go-to startup for helping companies build digital products that are more accessible...
IT総合 OpenAI snatches up Microsoft generative AI research lead
Microsoft has lost an AI expert and OpenAI gained one, after the former’s VP of generative AI research Sebastian B...
IT総合 Researchers question AI’s ‘reasoning’ ability as models stumble on math problems with trivial changes
How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” th...
IT総合 Hit by hurricanes? FCC says you qualify for internet and mobile service subsidies
As hurricanes batter the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, many people’s livelihoods are on hold and ...
IT総合 Meta’s Movie Gen model puts out realistic video with sound, so we can finally have infinite Moo Deng
No one really knows what generative video models are useful for just yet, but that hasn’t stopped companies like R...
IT総合 Cancer AI Alliance joins medical and tech expertise together with $40M to collaborate on next-gen care
A group of major medical institutions specializing in cancer care have formed a partnership to better take advantage of ...
IT総合 Runway earmarks $5M to fund up to 100 films using AI-generated video
AI video generators need to believe that filmmakers will use their models in the production process. Otherwise why exist...