[[{“value”:” Turo on Thursday withdrew its plans for an IPO, ending a three-year wait to bring the online car-sharing network to the public marketplace, according to a regulatory filing. Turo, which was founded in 2010, allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles through the startup’s website or app. The company — sometimes described as […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
UK drops ‘safety’ from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute, inks MOU with Anthropic
[[{“value”:” The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year ago for a very different purpose. Today the Department of Science, Industry and Technology announced that it would be renaming the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Meta CTO says staff should quit if they don’t like Meta’s new policies
[[{“value”:” Meta’s CTO said staff unhappy with the tech giant’s latest policies should work somewhere else, an internal chat reveals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Google Gemini now brings receipts to your AI chats
[[{“value”:” Google’s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation you’ve had with it, or recall info you shared in another conversation thread. This means you won’t have to repeat information you’ve already shared with […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Arm is launching its own chip this year with Meta as a customer
[[{“value”:” Public semiconductor company Arm will start making its own chips this year after landing a high-profile enterprise customer. Arm, which is majorly owned by SoftBank, will start making its own chips now that Meta has signed on as a customer, according to the Financial Times. The chip is expected to be a CPU for servers […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
OpenAI removes certain content warnings from ChatGPT
[[{“value”:” OpenAI says it has removed the “warning” messages in its AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT, that indicated when content might violate its terms of service. Laurentia Romaniuk, a member of OpenAI’s AI model behavior team, said in a post on X that the change was intended to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials.” Nick Turley, head of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
What STEM Education Can Be: Dreaming Big with Superintendent Stephanie Lammlein
[[{“value”:” Stephanie Lammlein is the founder and Chief Administrative Officer/Superintendent of Bio-Med Science Academy STEM School—a free public STEM school that serves 950 K–12 students in northeast Ohio. Among her staff and students, Lammlein is known for her “big ideas.” In fact, Bio-Med Science Academy was one of those big ideas. What began as an idea notebook—informed and propelled by…
Elon Musk’s full offer letter to buy OpenAI reveals five key details
[[{“value”:” A group led by Elon Musk’s x.AI wants to buy OpenAI. Read five key takeaways from its offer letter. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Tim Cook teases Apple product news for February 19 — likely the iPhone SE
[[{“value”:” Apple CEO Tim Cook took to X Thursday to tease “the newest member of the family,” set to arrive February 19. The safe money is on a fourth-generation iPhone SE. The budget-minded handset had previously been tipped for a potential release a week prior, but we got new Beats headphones instead. It’s been three years […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Anthropic’s next major AI model could arrive within weeks
[[{“value”:” AI startup Anthropic is gearing up to release its next major AI model, according to a report Thursday from The Information. The report describes Anthropic’s upcoming model as a “hybrid” model that can switch between “deep reasoning” and fast responses. The company will reportedly introduce a “sliding scale” alongside the model to allow developers to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….