HD raises $5.6M to build a Sierra AI for healthcare in Southeast Asia Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a simple logic structure. But customers can have complex problems, and no tree-diagra...
Photoncycle targets low-cost energy storage with a clever hydrogen solution For years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer months for use during the winter has remained an elusive go...
@Potus just joined the fediverse via Instagram Threads The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — just got another boost of legitimacy Tuesday as the @Potus (President of the United States) a...
Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companies Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in its most recent fiscal year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questions How do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model can be convi...
Thrive Market’s Nick Green talks building a billion-dollar grocery company Nick Green, one of the company's co-founders, stopped by Found to chat about his company and the market's evolution since he first launched it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal us...
Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages The document alleges that Facebook even cut spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service so as not to compete with Netflix, a large Facebook advertiser. © 2024 TechCrunch. Al...
Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cybersecurity Resilience Act Seven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), regulation adopted by the European Parliament last month. The A...
Apple Vision Pro’s Persona feature gets collaborative Much like the headset for which they were designed, Apple’s Personas are very much a work in progress. The original version of the beta avatars were — is “nightmarish” too strong a word? A subsequent ...
Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AI A group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools. The list of undersigned artists is so power-pa...