It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage…
Google announced on Thursday that it now permits customers to hyperlink and work together with a few of their go-to apps proper in AI Mode, the tech big’s conversational search expertise. At launch, supported apps embody Instacart, Canva, and YouTube. With this new replace, Google is increasing AI Mode past answering questions and into finishing…
Normal Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has landed a $400 million mortgage from Upper90, a tech funding agency. It could be the primary deal to place up inference-specific chips as collateral — chips constructed to run already-trained AI fashions shortly and effectively, moderately than the costlier chips used to construct the fashions within the…
Some corporations need their humanoid robots to fold your garments. Others need them within the office. Sankaet Pathak and his startup Basis Future Industries have a barely totally different aim: produce an all-American robotic supersoldier. Pathak, Basis’s CEO, says his firm plans to start out giving its humanoids deadly capabilities quickly, though he declined to…
Apple and Google have been ordered to take down apps that can “nudify” or “undress” people and told that they must stop profiting from the harmful technology, according to cease-and-desist letters sent to the companies seen by WIRED. On Thursday, San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that…
Embedding models decide which passages an agent ever sees. NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed model to work on that layer. It targets production-scale RAG, agentic retrieval, code retrieval, and agent memory. What is Nemotron 3 Embed? The model collection includes three open checkpoints. Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 is the accuracy-first option. Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 carries the same design into a…
Google would possibly launch an AI product with one title throughout its experimental section, however it’ll finally tie all of it to Gemini. Within the newest instance of this development, the corporate is renaming its AI-powered analysis product NotebookLM to Gemini Pocket book. The corporate can also be including options to make the software extra…
X is taking a more durable stance towards individuals who attempt to abuse its creator revenue-sharing program by soliciting engagement and stealing content material from others. It’s widespread for viral content material to be recirculated, particularly on platforms like X, the place that content material may be rewarded with likes, follows, and, in some circumstances,…
Publication platform Beehiiv is increasing into new avenues of engagement by launching a function referred to as Neighborhood, which lets subscribers of a creator chat with one another. The corporate additionally launched a brand new AI Copilot that helps creators handle and develop their viewers. The updates come as Beehiiv positions itself as a creator…
BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with local weather tech. Now it’s positively “off.” On high of pivoting away from clear power earlier this 12 months, the oil large announced today that it was promoting the vast majority of its enterprise portfolio — greater than 10 corporations, in keeping with BP — to Verdane,…
