
Google’s and Microsoft’s chatbots are making up Super Bowl stats
[ad_1] If you needed more evidence that GenAI is prone to making stuff up, Google’s Gemini chatbot, formerly Bard, thinks that the 2024 Super Bowl already happened. It even has…
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OpenAI forms a new team to study child safety
[ad_1] Under scrutiny from activists — and parents — OpenAI has formed a new team to study ways to prevent its AI tools from being misused or abused by kids….
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3D scanning app Polycam gets backing from YouTube co-founder
[ad_1] Polycam, an app that uses a smartphone’s sensors to capture 3D scans of objects, is raising cash from prominent investors including Adobe and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. Polycam today…
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Apple launches the Vision Pro, Taylor Swift fans strike back and Palworld comes under fire
[ad_1] Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech that was. And, boy, was it a week. Lots happened — let’s…
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This Week in AI: Do shoppers actually want Amazon’s GenAI?
[ad_1] Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the…
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Semron wants to replace chip transistors with ‘memcapacitors’
[ad_1] A new Germany-based startup, Semron, is developing what it describes as “3D-scaled” chips to run AI models locally on smartphones, earbuds, VR headsets and other mobile devices Co-created by…
Read More »Refact aims to make code-generating AI more appealing to enterprises
[ad_1] In 2021, Oleg Klimov, Vlad Guber and Oleg Kiyasko set out to co-create a platform, Refact.ai, that could convince more companies to embrace GenAI for coding by affording users…
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Disney’s VR treadmill, OpenAI fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4, and Apple rolls out stolen device protection
[ad_1] Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering notable happenings in tech over the past few days. On the agenda for this edition is…
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Clerk, the authentication startup, lands $30M and inks a strategic deal with Stripe
[ad_1] Clerk, a startup creating a suite of embeddable UIs, APIs and admin dashboards that app developers can use to authenticate and manage users, has raised $30 million in a…
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Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs lands $80M, achieves unicorn status
[ad_1] There’s a lot of money in voice cloning. Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create and edit synthetic voices, today announced that it closed an…
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