IT総合 This veteran couldn’t share 3D scans of a burnt naval ship, so he created a startup that can
In the summer of 2020, a fire broke out onboard a naval ship docked in San Diego Bay. For more than four days, the USS B...
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IT総合 IT総合 McDonald’s broken ice cream machines could get fixed faster thanks to new federal rule
McDonald’s ice cream machines have developed a lousy reputation for being broken when you visit the restaurant, la...
IT総合 OpenAI reportedly plans to release its Orion AI model by December
OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its next frontier AI model, codenamed Orion inside the company, by December of ...
IT総合 ‘They wish this technology didn’t exist’: Perplexity responds to News Corp’s lawsuit
Perplexity shot back at media companies skeptical of AI’s benefits in a blog post Thursday, responding to News Cor...
IT総合 Google adds new disclosures for AI photos, but it’s still not obvious at first glance
Starting next week, the Google Photos app will add a new disclosure for when a photo has been edited with one of its AI ...
IT総合 Finix raises $75 million to take on Stripe as a payment processor
Finix has been slowly chipping away at Stripe – which handles payments with millions of businesses – for years now. But ...
IT総合 Andreessen Horowitz helps founders meet compute needs with ‘Oxygen’ private GPU cluster
Andreessen Horowitz has a massive cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs to help its portfolio of AI startups meet their compute ne...
IT総合 Meta suspends accounts tracking private jets of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other celebrities
Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities – including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Ka...
IT総合 Meta’s smart glasses outsell traditional Ray-Bans in some stores, even before AI features roll out
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are the top selling product in 60% of all Ray-Ban stores throughout Europe, the Middle Ea...
IT総合 Amazon indicates employees can quit if they don’t like its return-to-office mandate
AWS CEO Matt Garman has harsh words for remote workers: return to the office or quit. The Amazon executive recently told...
IT総合 Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World, and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity
Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto startup that scans people’s eyeballs...
IT総合 Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out
Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI...
IT総合 Meta lays off employees across multiple teams
Multiple teams at Meta were hit by layoffs on Wednesday, the company confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch, noting thes...
IT総合 White House considers expanding Nvidia and AMD’s AI chip export limits to additional countries
The Biden administration has privately discussed capping sales of advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD to certain Persi...
IT総合 Adobe invites you to ’embrace the tech’ with Firefly’s new video generator
Adobe launched video generation capabilities for its Firefly AI platform ahead of its Adobe MAX event on Monday. Startin...
IT総合 Amazon team in charge of Just Walk Out loses three execs, gains one
Three Amazon executives in charge of developing new technologies for checking out of physical stores – including Just Wa...
IT総合 Tyler, the Creator changes his tune on Elon Musk
Tyler, the Creator dropped his hit song “911” in 2017 with the line: “Sucks you can’t gas me up,...
IT総合 After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’
Geoffrey Hinton accepted a Nobel Prize this week, recognizing the foundational work on artificial neural networks that e...
IT総合 X is cleared to go back online in Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s X could return online in the country, marking the en...
IT総合 Fei-Fei Li picks Google Cloud, where she led AI, as World Labs’ main compute provider
Cloud providers are chasing after AI unicorns, and the latest is Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs. The startup just tapped ...
IT総合 Amazon closes more of its cashierless convenience stores
Amazon continues to scale back efforts around its cashierless checkout technology, Just Walk Out. The e-commerce giant c...
IT総合 Even the ‘godmother of AI’ has no idea what AGI is
Are you confused about artificial general intelligence, or AGI? It’s that thing OpenAI is obsessed with ultimately...
IT総合 OpenAI launches new ‘Canvas’ ChatGPT interface tailored to writing and coding projects
OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.” The produc...
IT総合 Judge blocks California’s new AI law in case over Kamala Harris deepfake
A federal judge blocked one of California’s new AI laws on Wednesday, less than two weeks after it was signed by Governo...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s xAI moves into OpenAI’s old HQ
San Francisco’s Mission district isn’t known for corporate offices, but it’s now home to two of the wo...
IT総合 Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze
We recently asked Meta if it trains AI on photos and videos that users take on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The compa...
IT総合 A hidden microphone on a San Francisco street pole is spotting ‘bops’ in the wild
In San Francisco’s Mission district, good music is all around you. That’s why, high up on a street pole at a...
IT総合 OpenAI’s DevDay brings Realtime API and other treats for AI app developers
It’s been a tumultuous week for OpenAI, full of executive departures and major fundraising developments, but the s...
IT総合 Meta won’t say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos
Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, for taking photos not just when you ask them to, b...
IT総合 Here is what’s illegal under California’s 18 (and counting) new AI laws
In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom considered 38 AI-related bills, including the highly contentious SB 1047,...