IT総合 Anysphere acquires Supermaven to beef up Cursor
Anysphere, the company behind AI-powered code editor Cursor, has acquired AI coding assistant Supermaven for an undisclo...
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IT総合 IT総合 Generative AI startup Writer raises $200M at a $1.9B valuation
Writer has raised $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation to expand its enterprise-focused generative AI platform. The ...
IT総合 ScaleOps aims to take the frustration out of cloud management
ScaleOps, an automated cloud management platform, has closed a $58 million Series B, bringing its total raised to $80 mi...
IT総合 Amazon attempts to lure AI researchers with $110M in grants and credits
There’s an AI chip battle brewing among the major cloud vendors. Google’s Trillium, a custom chip for traini...
IT総合 Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic
Red Hat, the IBM-owned open source software firm, is acquiring Neural Magic, a startup that optimizes AI algorithms to r...
IT総合 Conduktor looks to gatekeep ‘bad data’ out of company’s apps
It was 2020, and Nicolas Orban, Stéphane Derosiaux and Stéphane Maarek were beyond frustrated with Apache Kafka. The too...
IT総合 Amazon may up its investment in Anthropic — on one condition
Amazon is considering increasing its investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic. According to The Information, Amazon is in ta...
IT総合 Yelp just spent $80M on a site for car repair estimates
Yelp, which made a name for itself giving restaurant recs, just bought an auto services website. In the company’s ...
IT総合 Mistral launches a moderation API
AI startup Mistral has launched a new API for content moderation. The API, which is the same API that powers moderation ...
IT総合 Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers
Anthropic on Thursday announced that it’s teaming up with Palantir, the data-mining firm, and Amazon Web Services ...
IT総合 OpenAI acquired Chat.com
OpenAI bought Chat.com, adding to its collection of high-profile domain names. As of this morning, Chat.com now redirect...
IT総合 This Week in AI: It’s shockingly easy to make a Kamala Harris deepfake
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IT総合 What Trump’s victory could mean for AI regulation
A grueling election cycle has come to a close. Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the U.S., and, with Republican...
IT総合 It’s Election Day, and all the AIs — but one — are acting responsibly
TechCrunch found that X's AI chatbot produced incorrect results about the U.S. presidential election, even as votes were...
IT総合 Can Pictionary and Minecraft test AI models’ ingenuity?
Most AI benchmarks don’t tell us much. They ask questions that can be solved with rote memorization, or cover topi...
IT総合 Amazon begins delivering certain products via drone in Phoenix
A few months after ending its drone-based delivery program, Prime Air, in California, Amazon says that it’s begun ...
IT総合 Anthropic hikes the price of its Haiku model
Anthropic’s newest AI model has arrived. But it’s pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic&#...
IT総合 Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
In an effort to combat the perception that its “open” AI is aiding foreign adversaries, Meta today said that...
IT総合 U.S. laws regulating AI prove elusive, but there may be hope
Can the U.S. meaningfully regulate AI? It’s not at all clear yet. Policymakers have achieved progress in recent mo...
IT総合 OpenAI has hired the co-founder of Twitter challenger Pebble
Gabor Cselle, the former CEO and co-founder of X challenger Pebble, has joined OpenAI to work on a secretive project. Cs...
IT総合 Women in AI: Sophia Velastegui believes AI is moving too fast
As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and ...
IT総合 Perplexity launches an elections tracker
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, might hallucinate from time to time. But the company wants to show that itR...
IT総合 Chinese military researchers reportedly used Meta AI to develop defense chatbot
Chinese research scientists linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of China’s rulin...
IT総合 Elon Musk skipped a hearing in Philly about his super PAC’s payouts to voters
A Philadelphia judge ordered X CEO Elon Musk to appear in a hearing Thursday morning over his super PAC’s plan to ...
IT総合 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hints at an ‘agentic’ Alexa
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today hinted at an improved, “agentic” version of the company’s Alexa assistant ...
IT総合 Decart’s AI simulates a real-time, playable version of Minecraft
Decart, an Israeli AI company that emerged from stealth today with $21 million in funding from Sequoia and Oren Zeev, ha...
IT総合 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company’s products
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the compa...
IT総合 Meta is making a robot hand that can ‘feel’ touch
Meta says it’s partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commer...
IT総合 OpenAI launches its Google challenger, ChatGPT Search
OpenAI’s Google challenger is finally here. The company on Thursday launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the S...
IT総合 Claude gets desktop apps and dictation support
Anthropic’s AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps. Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windo...