Reddit users will soon see AI-generated summaries at the top of search results. Reddit CFO Drew Vollero told investors during its earnings call on Tuesday that the company plans to test AI-powered search result pages to “summarize and recommend content.” He noted this will help users “dive deeper” into content and discover new Reddit communities. […]
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When Nick Frosst was in college over a decade ago, he was worried he was a little late to the AI game. Frosst, a co-founder of enterprise AI startup Cohere, said on a recent episode of TechCrunch’s Found podcast that he came to this conclusion in 2012 after Geoffrey Hinton released his research that showed
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Apple gave users the first real taste of its Apple Intelligence features with the release of the iOS 18.1 developer beta last month. Writing Tools, which lets you reformat or rewrite text using Apple’s AI models, is one of the new always-available services in this update. But the tool will show you a message notifying
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The growth in the demand for generative AI apps has led to a need for larger and larger databases to store the associated data (e.g. model training data). These databases tend to be resource-intensive from a hardware perspective and depending on the algorithms used to orchestrate them, they can be high-latency. Often, companies are forced
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Figure has unveiled its latest humanoid robot, the Figure 02. The system is — and its name helpfully suggests — the successor to the Figure 01 robot unveiled in 2023. An initial teasr video is similar to those we’ve seen from other humanoids, echoing consumer electronics product videos, rather than a raw demo of the
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John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. The news comes as The Information reports that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, has taken an extended leave of absence and Peter Deng, a product manager who joined OpenAI last year after leading products at Meta, Uber and Airtable,
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Grok, not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million, spread false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter penned by five secretaries of state and addressed to Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO
Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store. This year will be a quieter affair, however. On Monday, OpenAI said it’s changing the format of its DevDay conference from a tentpole event into
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We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and Space as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. We couldn’t possibly host TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 without a huge deep dive on all things artificial intelligence. So,
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A YouTube creator is seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company trained its generative AI models on millions of transcripts from YouTube videos without notifying or compensating the videos’ owners. In a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys for David
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