[[{“value”:” Make room for yet another partnership on AI: Current AI, which is being billed as a “public interest” initiative focused on fostering and steering development of artificial intelligence in societally beneficial directions, was announced at the French AI Action summit on Monday — with an initial $400 million in pledges from backers and a plan […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
TikTok influencers are wearing Apple Watches on their ankles
[[{“value”:” A report from The New York Times over the weekend highlights the small – but apparently growing – trend of users wearing their Apple Watches on their ankles. What’s becoming something of a viral sensation on social platforms like TikTok is the result of a pragmatic decision. Some Apple Watch owners’ wrists are simply too […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
UK’s secret Apple iCloud backdoor order is a global “emergency,” say critics
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AI-driven ads take the field during the 2025 Super Bowl
[[{“value”:” We’ve officially experienced an AI Super Bowl, people. As everyone tuned in to watch the annual championship game, the biggest buzz wasn’t just about the Eagles’ blowout win and Kendrick Lamar performing his Grammy-winning diss track at the halftime show. It was also about AI being a consistent theme in several of the multi-million dollar ad […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Lyft to launch Mobileye-powered robotaxis ‘as soon as 2026,’ starting with Dallas
[[{“value”:” Ride-hail giant Lyft plans to bring fully autonomous robotaxis, powered by Mobileye, to its app “as soon as 2026” in Dallas, with more markets to follow, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The news comes a day before Lyft shares its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 earnings report, and it coincides with Waymo’s preparations to launch a commercial […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li warns policymakers not to let sci-fi sensationalism shape AI rules
[[{“value”:” Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford researcher who also founded World Labs, was invited to the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday to give the opening speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit which is taking place this week. While she shared some of her talking points over the weekend, her stance on AI regulation and the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Media giant Lee Enterprises confirms cyberattack as news outlets report ongoing disruption
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Macron unveils a $112B AI investment package, France’s answer to Stargate
[[{“value”:” French President Emmanuel Macron announced a total of €109 billion in private investments in the AI ecosystem (around $112 billion at current exchange rates) on Sunday evening. This week, Paris is hosting the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit — the third international summit focused on AI after the one in Bletchley Park in the U.K., and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Saudi’s BRKZ closes $17M Series A for its construction tech platform
[[{“value”:” Construction procurement is highly fragmented, manual, and opaque, forcing contractors to juggle multiple suppliers, endure lengthy negotiations, and deal with delayed payments. In Saudi Arabia, where trillion-dollar infrastructure and real estate projects are underway, these inefficiencies are even more pronounced. To address this, BRKZ, a Riyadh-based construction tech startup, offers a tech-enabled managed marketplace that […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
[[{“value”:” In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most […] © 2024 TechCrunch….