[[{“value”:” Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions
[[{“value”:” Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tech giant announced on Wednesday that the new mode is designed to allow users to ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Hyundai pairs up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis
[[{“value”:” Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach
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Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website
[[{“value”:” Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden Administration in 2023 to promote safe and “trustworthy” AI. The commitments, which included pledges to share information on managing AI risks across industry and government and research on AI bias and discrimination, were deleted from Anthropic’s transparency […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Flex, a Brex for business owners, has raised $25M at a $250M valuation
[[{“value”:” Flex, which offers personal finance software and payments infrastructure for business owners, has raised $25 million in equity funding while securing a $200 million credit facility, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The equity funds were raised at a valuation of “just under $250 million.” The company last raised a $20 million Series A announced in September […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups
[[{“value”:” If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse. Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are useless, despite the promises of generative AI. Social media algorithms boost rage-bait to keep you scrolling and engaged. Dating apps hide all the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge
[[{“value”:” The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU’s flagship competition reform — which came into force last spring — was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
[[{“value”:” Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments. Andrew G. Barto, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Richard S. Sutton, a professor at […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription
[[{“value”:” YouTube on Wednesday announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which will users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month. With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos across verticals like gaming, fashion, beauty, cooking, news, and more, ad-free, but will be shown ads on music content and music […] © 2024 TechCrunch….