Hours of San Francisco Police Department drone video footage exposed on the open web illustrates a new era of incredibly granular—and consequential—urban surveillance. Meanwhile, the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google this week demanding that the tech giants delete 13 AI nudifying “face-swap” apps from their app stores that…
Zoox has issued a software recall after one among its robotaxis struggled to navigate a smoke-filled emergency fireplace scene in June. The Amazon-owned firm stated Friday that it has shipped to its fleet of 105 automobiles a software program replace that ought to deal with the problem. Zoox advised TechCrunch in a press release that…
Most AI agents forget. They process a request, answer it, then drop the context. Google Cloud’s generative-ai repository now ships a sample that tackles this directly. It is the Always-On Memory Agent, a reference implementation that treats memory as a running process. Always-On Memory Agent Fundamentally, the project is a lightweight background agent that never…
For years, the central ethos of reMarkable has been to get you away from screens and create an experience that emulates the feeling of writing with pen and paper. With its new device, the reMarkable Paper Pure, the company continues the trend of creating a device counter-positioned against phones, iPads, and laptops. As it lacks…
Patreon, the membership platform for creators, is cracking down on AI scraping its content material for coaching functions. On Thursday, the corporate shared that it’s working with web infrastructure supplier Cloudflare to straight block entry to AI bots designed to coach their AI fashions on creators’ work with out permission. The strengthened measures have been…
As parents become increasingly concerned about the potential dangers of unrestricted smartphone access for children, a growing number of companies are developing devices specifically designed for kids. Today’s kid-friendly phones typically feature touchscreens, cameras, and communication capabilities similar to regular smartphones. However, the software on these devices is heavily modified to remove or restrict access…
Valar Atomics, a startup constructing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — basically miniaturized, factory-built energy crops designed to be cheaper and quicker to deploy than conventional reactors — is in talks to boost a brand new spherical of capital, in keeping with three sources acquainted with the corporate. The three-year-old firm is searching for a…
In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I haven’t been able to shake. At a vibrant new tech festival in the city, talking about the wealth piling up around AI, he said he has “a strong sense that there will be some sort of a…
Months after analysts warned that AI-driven demand for reminiscence chips would ripple via client electronics, India is offering the strongest proof but that the disruption has arrived, with rising handset costs reshaping the smartphone market. The reminiscence chips in query — RAM and storage elements — are the identical ones tech giants want by the…
This week, Zyphra released ZUNA1.1 under the Apache 2.0 license. The EEG foundation model reconstructs, denoises, and upsamples data across arbitrary channel layouts. It builds on ZUNA1, the Zyphra’s earlier open EEG foundation model. The main change is flexibility, not a jump in raw accuracy. Real EEG recordings are messy. Sessions vary in length, and…
