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Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs

AI models are being applied to every dataset under the sun, but are inconsistent in their outcomes. This is as true in t...
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This new accessible Xbox nunchuck controller has 3D-printable joystick parts

Microsoft demonstrated its leadership in accessible gaming hardware again on Wednesday with the announcement of a new on...
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Telecom that enabled Biden deepfake scam will pay FCC $1M

Early this year, AI-powered fake audio of President Biden reached voters in New Hampshire. The FCC struck back swiftly, ...
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Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Tradit...
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Reliant’s paper-scouring AI takes on science’s data drudgery

AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and t...
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A hellish new AI threat: ‘Undressing’ sites targeted by SF authorities

While the ethics of AI-generated porn are still under debate, using the technology to create nonconsensual sexual imager...
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Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience ...
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Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition

One of the first topics tackled was the impractical nature of today's video generators. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
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Texas sues GM, saying it tricked customers into sharing driving data sold to insurers

Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against GM over years of alleged abuse of customers’ data and trust. New car owners ...
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Crewed commercial SpaceX mission will traverse the poles like the explorers of old

Fram2 would launch into a polar orbit from Florida in late 2024, after which it will stay up at 425-450 kilometers of al...
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Artists’ lawsuit against generative AI makers can go forward, judge says

A class action lawsuit filed by artists who allege that Stability, Runway and DeviantArt illegally trained their AIs on ...
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Rabbit’s r1 refines chats and timers, but its app-using ‘action model’ is still MIA

A new "beta rabbit" mode adds some conversational AI chops to the Rabbit r1, particularly in more complex or multi-step ...
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Bilingual dictation assistant Silvia understands ‘Spanglish’ and other language mixtures

Natural language AI assistants tend to be excellent English speakers, and passable in other tongues — but if you are one...
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H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding

Many industries that rely on legacy energy sources are aiming to electrify or at least streamline their operations, but ...
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Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024....
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Copyright Office tells Congress: ‘Urgent need’ to outlaw AI-powered impersonation

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued the first part of a report on how AI may affect its domain, and its first recommend...
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Disinformation may ‘go nuclear’ rather than ‘go viral,’ researchers say

We say something “goes viral” because we tend to think of rumors and disinformation spreading the way that a...
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Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Meta's machine learning model, Segment Anything, has a sequel: It now takes the model to the video domain, showing how f...
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‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail

If the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and ...
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Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas on accelerating everyday AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

As AI competition heats up, Perplexity has proven resilient due to its focus on using the technology strictly as a tool ...
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Moon cave! Discovery could redirect lunar colony and startup plays

What this means for the space industry is that theory has become reality: The possibility of designing a habitation with...
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Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively

A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to hel...
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Are ‘visual’ AI models actually blind?

The latest round of language models, like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro, are touted as “multi-modal,” able to un...
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Data workers detail exploitation by tech industry in DAIR report

The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from t...
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OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers

There’s no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of Ope...
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Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s actual energy cost

Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd...
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AI-powered scams and what you can do about them

This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...
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Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators

As the country reels from a Presidential debate that left no one looking good, the Supreme Court has swooped in with wha...
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FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days

The FCC wants to make it significantly easier for consumers to unlock their phones from their carriers, proposing that a...
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The RIAA’s lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs

Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly...
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