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What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?
[[{“value”:” Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny, and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. AI Overviews are the AI-generated search results that Google started rolling out more broadly earlier this month, with mixed results — apparently, a user looking for help in getting cheese to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
The ups and downs of investing in Europe, with VCs Saul Klein and Raluca Ragab
[[{“value”:” When it comes to the world of venture-backed startups, some issues are universal, and some are very dependent on where the startups and its backers are located. It’s something we talked about this week in London, when TechCrunch took its StrictlyVC series of more intimate, more investor-focused events on the road. Sitting down with Saul […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Scarlett Johansson brought receipts to the OpenAI controversy
[[{“value”:” Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. OpenAI announced this week that it’s removing Sky, one of the voices used by its new GPT-4o model, after users found it sounded eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s AI character […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Deal Dive: Can blockchain make weather forecasts better? WeatherXM thinks so
[[{“value”:” Accurate weather forecasts are critical to industries like agriculture, and they’re also important to help prevent and mitigate harm from inclement weather events or natural disasters. But getting forecasts right is extremely difficult. That’s why the founders of WeatherXM have been looking to make weather forecasts more accurate for the past 12 years. In 2012, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced
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Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt
[[{“value”:” Synapse’s bankruptcy shows just how treacherous things are for the often-interdependent fintech world when one key player hits trouble. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Women in AI: Sarah Myers West says we should ask, ‘Why build AI at all?’
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This Week in AI: OpenAI and publishers are partners of convenience
[[{“value”:” 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 roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI newsletter […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China
[[{“value”:” Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone, snapped a photo of the problem from his Advanced Placement math textbook, and ran it through the homework app. Within a few seconds, Answer AI had generated an answer alongside a step-by-step process of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….