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...
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IT総合 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...
IT総合 Announcing the final agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re thrilled to announce that the agenda for our dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 20...
IT総合 AI2’s Molmo shows open source can meet, and beat, closed multimodal models
The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of to...
IT総合 Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on r1 as early as this week
The Rabbit r1 was the must-have gadget of early 2024, but the blush fell off it pretty quick when the company’s ex...
IT総合 Zin Boats’ bigger, faster electric leisure craft is built from the hull up with PNW pride
After taking on water during the pandemic, Zin Boats is back with a bigger, better electric watercraft that it has built...
IT総合 Pyka fields interest from defense as $40M round goes to scaling up its electric autonomous planes
Though it briefly worked on a passenger plane, the company decided after raising some money in 2022 that a cargo variant...
IT総合 Electric outboard startup Pure Watercraft is selling itself for parts
A tough market seems to have put an end to Pure's ambitions.
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IT総合 FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations
A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t re...
IT総合 Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting
With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of ...
IT総合 Luminate’s hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care
The pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent the hair loss, w...
IT総合 Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean they have cured blindness
Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, has received “breakthrough device” clearanc...
IT総合 Tech’s emissions may be way higher than disclosed due to ‘creative accounting’ of carbon
Accounting for the emissions of a global tech empire is not a simple task, and what industry standards we do have for di...
IT総合 Adam Neumann’s crypto comeback company is reportedly refunding investors
In a development that will surprise few, former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann’s climate/crypto/carbon-credit startup Flo...
IT総合 Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive
A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize a...
IT総合 Apple punts on AI
One would have expected that "Apple's first phone made from the ground up for Apple Intelligence" would justify being so...
IT総合 Wealthy Harris donors are reportedly pressing for ouster of FTC Chair Lina Khan
Some of Vice President Kamala Harris’ wealthier donors are informally asking for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be replace...
IT総合 Real estate revolutions and beanie baby economies
The Equity podcast crew is wrapping up another eventful week, with real estate, AI agents, gambling, and secondary marke...
IT総合 Publishers prevail in lawsuit over Internet Archive’s ’emergency’ e-book lending
A long-running lawsuit over the Internet Archive’s “emergency” e-book lending practices during the COV...
IT総合 You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round
If you build an AI search product, you compete with Google. But Google has a lot easier time answering queries with a si...
IT総合 reMarkable’s Paper Pro adds color, light and more but keeps the focus on ‘focus’
The $499 Paper Pro — a new naming convention to indicate it is a higher-end alternative to the now-$379 reMarkable 2, no...
IT総合 Flying through Sea-Tac’s hacked airport
Several days after the Port of Seattle announced a “possible” cyberattack on its systems, Sea-Tac Airport is...
IT総合 Is open source AI possible, let alone the future? Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Some believe open source AI is a way to break out of the familiar proprietary software quagmire that the technology has ...
IT総合 Elon Musk unexpectedly offers support for California’s AI bill
Elon Musk has come out in support of California’s SB 1047, a bill that requires makers of very large AI models to ...
IT総合 Andrew Ng steps back at Landing AI after announcing new fund
Andrew Ng is stepping down from his role as CEO at Landing AI, the computer vision platform he founded in 2017. Dan Malo...