X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-to-distant future (“in the coming days,” X.ai writes in a blog post),

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Nearly everything else that’s being built on or enabled by blockchains replaces something that’s already being done fairly well. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The bigger concern for Bumble is user fatigue. People aren’t downloading dating apps as enthusiastically as they once were, which means less subscription revenue. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For

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A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It’s a

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On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app,

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Google has reportedly resolved a known scrolling issue with its Pixel phone that numerous users had complained about. According to Google’s issue tracker, the scrolling experience on some Pixel models were jittery

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Schools in several major cities in Canada have initiated legal actions against social media corporations, including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, alleging that these platforms hurt children’s mental health and

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Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers’ specific goals — apart from

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We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding

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Even though X seems to be working on this NSFW Communities feature, that doesn’t mean it’ll come to fruition. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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