Betaworks bets on AI agents in latest ‘Camp’ cohort

[ad_1] Betaworks is embracing the AI trend not with yet another LLM, but instead a clutch of agent-type models automating everyday tasks that nevertheless aren’t so simple to define. The…

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Why it’s impossible to review AIs, and why TechCrunch is doing it anyway

[ad_1] Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability to evaluate it comprehensively. Here’s why it’s pretty much impossible…

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Microbiome startups respond as industry is accused of ‘questionable practices’

[ad_1] The biotech sector has embraced the microbiome in recent years, a green field market powered by cheap genome sequencing and venture dollars, promising bespoke treatments for everything from gut…

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Saildrone’s first aluminum Surveyor autonomous vessel splashes down for Navy testing

[ad_1] Ocean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the water: an aluminum version that the Navy is keen to…

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’

[ad_1] AI is “not open in any sense,” the battle over encryption is far from won, and Signal’s principled (and uncompromising) approach may complicate interoperability efforts, warned the company’s president,…

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Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu on the nature of startups: ‘Grow faster, or die faster,’ just don’t give up

[ad_1] Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death … the death of the company, at least. He told TechCrunch that the company is a startup whose fortunes…

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‘Embarrassing and wrong’: Google admits it lost control of image-generating AI

[ad_1] Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image-generating model that injected diversity into pictures with a farcical disregard for…

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Tomorrow.io’s radar satellites use machine learning to punch well above their weight

[ad_1] Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less privileged, weather forecasting and analysis is…

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Japan’s SLIM mission makes historic moon landing, but its time is running out

[ad_1] Japan’s long-planned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has successfully touched down on the lunar surface, making the nation the fifth in history to do so. But all is not…

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Astroscale takes the wraps off its $25M orbital refueling craft for Space Force

[ad_1] Orbital operations company Astroscale has revealed new details about its approach to refueling satellites in space, as part of a $25.5 million project exploring the concept with the Space…

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