Devin Coldewey

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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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Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck on reshaping the space economy at Disrupt 2024

The future of the space industry may look a lot like its past, or so believes Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab....
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Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense

No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing. © 2024 Te...
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Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee

The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for ...
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Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease

A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding...
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Cartwheel generates 3D animations from scratch to power up creators

Animating a 3D character from scratch is generally both laborious and expensive, requiring the use of complex software a...
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Kobo’s new e-readers are a sidegrade most can skip (with one exception)

Kobo put out a handful of new e-readers a few weeks back: color versions of the excellent Libra 2 and Clara, as well as ...
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WTF is AI?

What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today...
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Voice cloning of political figures is still easy as pie

The 2024 election is likely to be the first in which faked audio and video of candidates is a serious factor. As campaig...
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Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020

The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but ...
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Valar Labs debuts AI-powered cancer care prediction tool and secures $22M

Biotech startup Valar Labs has built a tool that accurately predicts certain treatment outcomes, potentially saving prec...
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AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people

AI models are always surprising us, not just in what they can do, but what they can’t, and why. An interesting new...
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$6M fine for robocaller who used AI to clone Biden’s voice

The FCC has proposed a $6 million fine for the scammer who used voice-cloning tech to impersonate President Biden in a s...
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ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure

ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real...
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FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed

The FCC has floated a requirement that AI-generated content be disclosed in political ads — but not banned. Chairwoman J...
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Autodesk acquires AI-powered VFX startup Wonder Dynamics

3D tools behemoth Autodesk has acquired Wonder Dynamics, a startup that let creators quickly and easily make complex cha...
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Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha

Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the pr...
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Indiebio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises

IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups; here are a few we took specia...
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Google’s expands hands-free and eyes-free interfaces on Android

As part of 2024’s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful...
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Senate study proposes ‘at least’ $32B yearly for AI programs

A long-running working group in the Senate has issued its policy recommendation for federal funding for AI: $32 billion ...
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ChatGPT’s new face is a black hole

The decision to go monochrome was probably a smart one, considering the candy-colored alternatives that seem to want to ...
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Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is disgusting

The problem is not the media, but the message. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: T...
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OpenAI offers a peek behind the curtain of its AI’s secret instructions

Ever wonder why conversational AI like ChatGPT says “Sorry, I can’t do that” or some other polite refu...
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Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app

Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predic...
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Crypto? AI? Internet co-creator Robert Kahn already did it… decades ago

Robert Kahn has been a consistent presence on the Internet since its creation — obviously, since he was its co-creator. ...
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The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point

I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its...
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Allozymes puts its accelerated enzymatics to work on a data and AI play, raising $15M

Allozymes uses a method in which millions of enzymes can be tested per day, rather than just a few hundred. © 2024 TechC...
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Shinkei’s humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industry

Shinkei raised $6 million to help it go from pilot to production, with a goal of 10 machines in actual use by the end of...
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Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations

OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that...
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Meta AI tested: Doesn’t quite justify its own existence, but free is free

Meta’s new large language model, Llama 3, powers the imaginatively named “Meta AI,” a newish chatbot t...
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