A little over a month after the Department of Defense (DOD) bragged that nearly half of its 3.5 million employees were using AI at work, members of the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) received an email informing them that they were burning through tokens, and needed to limit use. “Although the Army CIO announced…
In 2017, Emily Olson, a stay-at-home mom based in Boulder, Colorado, started selling prints and custom-made puppy portraits on Etsy. Her watercolors were simple and relatively cheap—images of saucer-eyed corgis and malamutes in mini-tuxes, which she sold for $75 to $300 each—but dog owners adored them: “They were a labor of love,” she says. In…
“> What does world model do here A world model learns how an environment changes over time. It represents objects, motion, spatial relationships, and the effects of actions. Consider a robot reaching for an object. Recognizing the object is only the first step. The robot must also track where the object is, how its gripper…
The debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety has only intensified in the AI era. And Flock Safety, a company that has seen both an influx of investment and an intense public backlash, sits right at the center of that debate. That’s why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re bringing Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley to…
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation on Monday from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup is building software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. One big reason Nvidia became the top…
A current change sees YouTube additional cracking down on AI slop by clarifying its insurance policies round how content material on its platform could be monetized. To discourage creators from utilizing AI and different instruments to make low-quality content material, YouTube’s coverage now explains that there are three varieties of movies underneath the broader class…
Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has hit a roadblock after a choose temporarily paused the deal in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 12 state attorneys normal who argue that the merger would hurt competitors. U.S. District Choose Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a 14-day pause on Monday after listening…
The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the biggest open-weight large language model, has kicked off a debate that conflates two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the…
Alphabet, Google’s guardian firm, is designing a brand new server chip to assist its in-house Gemini fashions function extra effectively. The brand new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be launched someday in 2028, The Info reported, citing nameless sources. In accordance with the report, the chip could possibly be between six and…
When de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences revealed final 12 months that it was trying to “resurrect” the dire wolf from genetic materials present in fossils, we argued that, regardless of the controversy surrounding the venture, the corporate was constructing worthwhile applied sciences that justify its $10.2 billion valuation. Now, roughly 16 months later, the startup is…
