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OpenAI moves to trademark its ‘reasoning’ models
OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, as the firm moves to shield its IP. On Tuesday, OpenAI submitted paperwork to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to register the trademark “OpenAI o1.” Interestingly, the documents reveal that OpenAI filed for a foreign trademark application in Jamaica in May, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 17:17:19
Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees
With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon Valley venture capitalists, are reportedly being tapped to help out. For instance, VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, and in particular co-founder Marc Andreessen, is repeatedly being mentioned. He, along with Antonio Gracias and Joe Lonsdale, are reportedly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 17:10:37
ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs on Wednesday introduced a feature that lets you upload different types of content to create a multi-speaker podcast for you, similar to Google’s NotebookLM. The feature, called GenFM, can be found on the company’s ElevenLabs Reader iOS app. Currently, GenFM supports 32 languages, including English, Hindi, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 17:00:00
TuSimple co-founder demands liquidation, sues company for control of his shares
Xiaodi Hou, the co-founder and former CEO of self-driving truck startup TuSimple, is demanding that the board immediately liquidate the company and return all remaining funds – roughly $450 million – to shareholders “on a pure pro-rata basis, regardless of share class,” according to a letter that TechCrunch has viewed.  Hou is also suing TuSimple […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 16:48:45
Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, is reportedly preparing to release a standalone consumer app. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that the upcoming app will be similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT app, allowing users to access xAI’s Grok chatbot from their personal devices. The app will likely arrive after xAI closes its next […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 16:46:29
Pony AI set for Nasdaq debut at $4.55B valuation
The Chinese autonomous driving tech company will go public on the U.S. markets at $13 per share. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 15:20:58
TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for under-18s
TikTok is now the go-to social network for more than a billion users, bringing it to the attention of 14 U.S. attorneys general, who recently announced they were suing the company over its negative impact on minors’ mental health, as well as for harvesting their data. A subsequent report indicated that the company’s own research […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 13:11:55
Scaling startups top priority as EU reboots its top team
Europe must get much better at scaling startups. That’s the prognosis of the European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, who’s on the cusp of taking up her second five-year term steering the bloc of some 449 million people — with a December 1 start date now locked in. Giving a speech to the European […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 12:34:06
Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third-parties from doing so. Per a report by 404 Media, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research, pushing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 11:06:03
Audio platform Pocket FM taps into AI tools to help it expand its content catalog
India-based audio platform Pocket FM has more than 200,000 hours of content on the service. However, the company’s CEO, Rohan Nayak, believes that the platform still has room to grow in terms of creating original content and expanding its library to multiple genres and sub-genres. The fastest way to do that is to tap into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 10:01:00
Raspberry Pi launches Compute Module 5 for embedded apps
Raspberry Pi is better known for its single-board computer with a ton of ports sticking out. The most recent of which is the Raspberry Pi 5, which was introduced in September 2023. These small computers are perfect for the education market and for tech enthusiasts looking for a cheap computing device to power an interactive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 08:00:00
Eyewa now has 150 stores selling eyeglasses in the Mideast, and just raised $100M to add 100 more
Helping consumers find the perfect glasses is a booming global business, spawning giants like Warby Parker in the U.S. and Lenskart in India. In the Middle East, this market is producing its own rising powerhouse: Eyewa. Eyewa, based in Dubai and Riyadh, sells a wide range of eyewear products, including prescription glasses, sunglasses, blue light […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 06:00:00
Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama
There’s a new AI model family on the block, and it’s one of the few that can be reproduced from scratch. On Tuesday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI research organization founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, released OLMo 2, the second family of models in its OLMo series. (OLMo’s short for “Open Language Model.”) […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 05:55:25
Roblox will now give users 25% more of its in-game currency if you buy Robux on its website
As scrutiny around Apple and Google’s app store fees ramps up around the world, Roblox is now offering users who buy its game currency, Robux, on the web and via gift cards 25% more than they would get if they purchased from an app store instead. In essence, the company is encouraging users to purchase […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-27 04:11:07
Figure 02 performing tasks autonomously
Robotics startup Figure released a video update showcasing their Figure 02 humanoid robot autonomously performing tasks at HQ for a BMW use case. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-26 23:50:53
Trump considers naming an ‘AI czar’
Incoming president Donald Trump is considering naming an “AI czar” in the White House, Axios reports. Should Trump appoint such a policy person, they’d be charged with helping to coordinate federal regulation and governmental use of AI. Importantly, an AI czar wouldn’t require Senate confirmation, Axios notes — allowing them to get to work on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-26 23:10:28
Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars’ X accounts to The Onion
The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ website, InfoWars, and other related assets. However, that sale is now in limbo after a federal judge temporarily halted the deal. On Monday, Elon Musk threw yet another wrench in the works, objecting to the transfer of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-26 22:30:02
SpaceX gets FCC green light for Starlink direct-to-phone deal with T-Mobile
The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to go forward with plans to offer a direct-to-phone version of its Starlink satellite internet service, with T-Mobile as its provider and a few provisos in place. The proposal dates to summer 2022, when SpaceX and T-Mobile first announced that they were pursuing the ability for the mobile provider’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-26 22:24:30
AWS re:Invent 2024: What to expect and how to watch Amazon’s biggest event of the year
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest conference of the year is around the corner, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions scheduled to run through December 6. A keynote address featuring AWS CEO Matt Garman will take place December 3, starting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-26 21:36:03
ServiceTitan could be the first of many ‘dirty’ term-sheet IPOs, VCs believe
Rather than opening an IPO window, ServiceTitan's IPO could be the first \of something else entirely, VCs warn. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Published: 2024-11-26 21:31:21
