[[{“value”:” The U.K.’s data protection watchdog claims a crackdown on websites that don’t ask for consent from visitors to track and profile their activity for ad targeting is bearing fruit. However it’s admitted some of the changes driven by the intervention have seen sites adopting a controversial type of paywall that demands users pay a fee […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Sam Altman departs OpenAI’s safety committee
[[{“value”:” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the internal commission OpenAI created in May to oversee “critical” safety decisions related to the company’s projects and operations. In a blog post today, OpenAI said the committee, the Safety and Security Committee, will become an “independent” board oversight group chaired by Carnegie Mellon professor Zico Kolter, and including […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
TechCrunch Space: The dawn of Polaris
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Mammoth’s founder returns with new iOS app for Mastodon, Saturn
[[{“value”:” After founding and selling the popular Mastodon client Mammoth, developer Shihab Mehboob is returning to compete with it with the launch of his new app, Saturn. Not to be confused with the social calendar of the same name, Mehboob’s Saturn works with the decentralized social network Mastodon and specifically offers a unique “Highlights” feature that […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
New sensors co-developed by Google aim to detect wildfires everywhere much faster
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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI
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Fisker Ocean owners stuck paying for recall repairs
[[{“value”:” As EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, existing owners have received some bad news: they will have to pay labor costs to resolve two of the five outstanding recalls on their Ocean SUVs. Fisker broke the bad news Sunday night in an FAQ posted to its […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Salesforce Ventures ups its AI fund to $1B, doubling it again
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Amazon mandates full 5-day return to office
[[{“value”:” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a memo to the company’s employees Monday morning, calling for a full return to office at the start of 2025. For the last 15 months, Amazon employees have been expected to work in the office three days per week. Now Jassy expects five days of in-person work from employees, with […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Runway announces an API for its video-generating AI models
[[{“value”:” Runway, one of several AI startups developing video-generating tech, today announced an API to allow devs and organizations to build the company’s generative AI models into third-party platforms, apps, and services. Currently in limited access (there’s a waitlist), the Runway API only offers a single model to choose from — Gen-3 Alpha Turbo, a faster […] © 2024 TechCrunch….