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...
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IT総合 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...
IT総合 No ‘GPT’ trademark for OpenAI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI’s attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the t...
IT総合 Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’
Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent&...
IT総合 SpaceX will deorbit 100 Starlink satellites with unidentified flaw
SpaceX announced today that it will be sending some 100 Starlink satellites to an early retirement after a flaw was iden...
IT総合 US Patent Office: AI is all well and good, but only humans can patent things
The question of where AI sits in the legal personhood stack isn’t as simple as it may seem (i.e. “nowhere...
IT総合 Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what ...
IT総合 FCC officially declares AI-voiced robocalls illegal
The FCC’s war on robocalls has gained a new weapon in its arsenal with the declaration of AI-generated voices as &...