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This Week in AI: With Chevron’s demise, AI regulation seems dead in the water

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Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down “Chevron deference,” a 40-year-old ruling on federal agencies’ power that required courts to defer to agencies’ interpretations of congressional laws. Chevron deference let agencies make their own rules when Congress left aspects of its statutes ambiguous. […]

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Altrove uses AI models and lab automation to create new materials

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For the past couple of years, innovation has been accelerating in new materials development. And a new French startup called Altrove plans to play a role in this innovation cycle. The deep tech startup has already raised €3.7 million (around $4 million at current exchange rates). If you’re interesting in new materials development, you may

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News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping

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In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web scraping and unethical summarization, is a thin one.  Perplexity AI is a startup that combines a search engine with a large language model

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Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks

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Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled on Monday, Anthropic’s program will dole out grants to third-party organizations that can, as the company puts it in a blog post, “effectively

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Robinhood snaps up Pluto to add AI tools to its investing app

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Investment app Robinhood is adding more AI features for investors with its acquisition of AI-powered research platform Pluto Capital, Inc., announced on Monday. The company says that Pluto will allow Robinhood to add tools for quicker identification of trends and investment opportunities, help guide users with their investment strategies, and offer real-time portfolio optimization. Pluto

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Here are India’s biggest AI startups based on how much money they’ve raised

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India is very far from the “uncanny valley” of San Francisco, but it has a massive trove of engineering talent, and some of those people are hopping on the train and turning into founders and builders of AI startups. The story of the AI startup ecosystem in India today is reminiscent of the early days

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Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims

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One of the selling points of Google’s flagship generative AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and analyze. In press briefings and demos, Google has repeatedly claimed that the models can accomplish previously impossible tasks thanks to their “long context,” like summarizing multiple hundred-page documents

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