We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President Donald Trump’s claims that the AI backlash is a hoax and regulation is unnecessary. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity…
Society has spent a lot of time bemoaning our digitally addled minds and goldfish-like attention spans, pointing the finger of blame at doomscrolling as the reason we can’t just sit down and read a book or study for exams. But what if the solution isn’t to stop scrolling, but to rethink what we’re scrolling through?…
New legislation signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics. The New York Times reports that California already required disclosure for influencers who post about state or local races — but when someone failed to disclose, there were no fines or criminal…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! One of the stickier problems for autonomous vehicle developers, regulators, and the public is determining…
Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later….
“I do see this as a continued trajectory of their essential enterprise mannequin of controlling what individuals see, placing adverts in entrance of them, and gathering extra knowledge,” Mir says. It’s undoubtedly rational to be concerned about handing over your bank card to an agent. Even when you might belief these AI instruments wouldn’t be…
Welcome again to Energy Play! Every week, senior author Molly Taft tackles a subject round this midterm season’s greatest situation: knowledge facilities. For those who’ve bought a query or thought for the column, be happy to shoot Molly an electronic mail at [email protected] or attain them securely on Sign at mollytaft.76. Molly McCann Sanders has…
Qwen has released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, its next-generation real-time simultaneous interpretation model. It listens to live speech, with optional video frames, and returns translated text and speech while the speaker is still talking. The core change is a new Interleave architecture. Qwen reports gains in faithfulness, fluency, and conciseness, with average lagging (LAAL) dropping from 2.8 seconds…
For some iPhone consumers in India, getting Apple’s brand-new iPhone 18 Professional or iPhone 18 Professional Max didn’t require lining up exterior a retailer or ready days for supply. They wanted just a few faucets on a quick-commerce app to get one delivered to their doorstep in about 10 minutes. Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy’s Instamart, and…
This week, I moderated a panel on world fashions on the All In convention (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me an opportunity to dig into one of the crucial mysterious corners of the AI world. The massive gamers within the house are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs —…
