IT総合 Cambrium aims to one-up nature with designer proteins that scale sustainably
Nature has done a hell of a job over the last few billion years, but there’s always room for improvement. The prot...
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IT総合 IT総合 AI’s proxy war heats up as Google reportedly backs Anthropic with $2B
With a massive $2 billion reported investment from Google, Anthropic joins OpenAI in reaping the benefits of leadership ...
IT総合 Viso eyes no-code for the future of computer vision and scores funding to scale
Computer vision has become commonplace across innumerable industries, but the methods of creating and controlling these ...
IT総合 FCC aims to investigate the risk of AI-enhanced robocalls
As if robocalling wasn’t already enough of a problem, the advent of easily accessible, realistic AI-powered writin...
IT総合 Microsoft would like to remind you that they are all-in on AI
In case you weren’t sure how Microsoft felt about AI, CEO Satya Nadella is here to tell you: they like it. They li...
IT総合 Embodied AI spins a pen and helps clean the living room in new research
Sure, AI can write sonnets and do a passable Homer Simpson Nirvana cover. But if anyone is going to welcome our new tech...
IT総合 FCC begins second quest for net neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission officially began its effort to re-establish net neutrality at its monthly meeting ...
IT総合 Sequoia faces Congressional scrutiny over investments in China
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investment firms will face government scrutiny over its investments in Chin...
IT総合 Microsoft highlights new Xbox accessibility features and the gamers who use them
Microsoft is always moving forward in the field of accessibility, especially in gaming, where its Xbox Adaptive Controll...
IT総合 IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024
The IRS will test a free tax filing service in 2024 for a subset of lucky taxpayers in as many as 13 states, the agency ...
IT総合 Bandcamp’s new owner lays off half the company
Bandcamp has officially changed hands from its old new owner, Epic, to its new new owner, Songtradr, and lost half its e...
IT総合 This week in AI: AI-powered personalities are all the rage
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy round...
IT総合 Your website can now opt out of training Google’s Bard and future AIs
Large language models are trained on all kinds of data, most of which it seems was collected without anyone’s know...
IT総合 Medium hints at a nascent media coalition to block AI crawlers
Web publishing platform Medium has announced that it will block OpenAI’s GPTBot, an agent that scrapes web pages f...
IT総合 Mistral AI makes its first large language model free for everyone
The most popular language models out there may be accessed via API, but open models — as far as that term can be taken s...
IT総合 What is Amazon’s [redacted] ‘Project Nessie’ algorithm?
The FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon alleging anti-competitive practices is largely full of things we already knew in ...
IT総合 FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality
Net neutrality is back on the menu, citizens. After a long, long battle ending in eventual defeat during Trump’s p...
IT総合 Alchemist Accelerator’s latest startups range from sneakernet for energy to solar panel cleaning bots
This morning is Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day, and there are 22 companies making their debut across a wide rang...
IT総合 Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ...
IT総合 Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness
Unity has done a 180 on a controversial new pricing scheme that users of its cross-platform game engine almost unanimous...
IT総合 Anthropic’s Dario Amodei on AI’s limits: ‘I’m not sure there are any’
As Anthropic takes on OpenAI and other challengers in the growing artificial intelligence industry, there is also an exi...
IT総合 Parallel Health takes a biotech-forward approach to skincare with custom phage therapy
Parallel Health turns the microbiome of the skin from creepy fact to potentially transformative skin care with custom ph...
IT総合 Unity reportedly backtracking on new fees after developers revolt
Unity, the popular cross-platform game and media development engine, is on the defensive after receiving intense backlas...
IT総合 California hits Google for $93M over deceptive location data options
A lawsuit filed against Google by California’s Attorney General over the company’s deceptive and misleading ...
IT総合 Apple is killing the iPhone’s silent switch
The ring/silent switch has been on the iPhone since the very first one was announced in 2007 by Steve Jobs, but now the ...
IT総合 ‘Exadelic’ takes a shot at being Silicon Valley’s ‘Ready Player One’
We don’t often review books at TechCrunch, let alone fiction, but sometimes a work comes along that is just so car...
IT総合 Scala Biodesign makes it easy to re-engineer proteins one molecule at a time – or 50
There’s a gold rush on in biotech as AI and other tools are used to find new drugs and treatments. With $5.5 milli...
IT総合 X, formerly Twitter, challenges California’s new transparency law as unconstitutional
X, formerly known as Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social networks to declar...
IT総合 Musk says he limited Ukraine’s Starlink to prevent attack on Russia
Elon Musk has confirmed that he in essence scuttled a Ukrainian military strike on Russia by refusing to allow Starlink ...
IT総合 Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually
Artists are among the many groups who will feel the effects of AI over the next few years, but it’s not doom and g...