Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach
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Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website
Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden Administration in 2023 to promote safe and “trustworthy” AI. The commitments, which
Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions
Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tech giant announced on Wednesday that the new mode is
Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently
Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the
AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt
YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription
YouTube on Wednesday announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which will users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month. With YouTube Lite, customers will be able to watch videos
Google’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothing
On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of a new AI image feature for its Shopping tab, designed to help users find clothing items they envision by allowing them to search using their own words. The company is
Flex, a Brex for business owners, has raised $25M at a $250M valuation
Flex, which offers personal finance software and payments infrastructure for business owners, has raised $25 million in equity funding while securing a $200 million credit facility, it told TechCrunch exclusively.
Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups
If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse. Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are
EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge
The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU’s flagship competition reform — which came into force last spring