[[{“value”:” Last month, one of the Bay Area’s better-known early-stage venture capital firms, Uncork Capital, marked its 20th anniversary with a party in a renovated church in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, where 420 guests showed up to help the firm to celebrate, trade tips, and share war stories. There’s no question the venture scene has changed […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Families of Uvalde shooting victims sue Activision and Meta
[[{“value”:” The families of victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas are suing Activision and Meta, as well as gun manufacturer Daniel Defense. The families bringing the lawsuits are represented by attorney Josh Koskoff, who previously won a settlement from Remington for the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. The suit against […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan supports some AI regulation but warns against AI monopolies
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How Maven’s AI-run ‘serendipity network’ can make social media interesting again
[[{“value”:” Everything in society can feel geared toward optimization – whether that’s standardized testing or artificial intelligence algorithms. We’re taught to know what outcome you want to achieve, and find the path towards getting there. Kenneth Stanley, a former OpenAI researcher and co-founder of a new social media platform called Maven, has been preaching for years […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Women in AI: Miriam Vogel stresses the need for responsible AI
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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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