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Meta partners with Midjourney on AI image and video models | TechCrunch

Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced Friday in a post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s resear

发布时间:2025-08-21来源:TechCrunch
Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acqui-hire | TechCrunch

When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known as a reverse acqui-hire — a deal where a large company hires key startup team member

发布时间:2025-08-22来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments | TechCrunch

In a new blog post, OpenAI warns against “unauthorized opportunities to gain exposure to OpenAI through a variety of means,” including special purpose vehicles, known as SPVs. “We urge you to be caref

发布时间:2025-08-22来源:TechCrunch
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 | TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model,

发布时间:2025-08-23来源:TechCrunch
Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats | TechCrunch

Robomart, a startup that builds self-driving delivery robots, is unveiling its latest robot with an ambitious goal of using it to make on-demand delivery profitable. The Los Angeles-based company anno

发布时间:2025-08-24来源:TechCrunch
Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms | TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among the Silicon Valley veterans putting more than $100 million into a network of political action committees (PACs) that will advocate agai

发布时间:2025-08-24来源:TechCrunch
After falling behind in generative AI, IBM and AMD look to quantum for an edge | TechCrunch

IBM and AMD are partnering to develop next-generation computing architectures that integrate IBM’s quantum systems with AMD’s AI-specialized chips. The move could position both the tech giant and chip

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch
Exclusive: How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change | TechCrunch

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers like Mitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch
Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in son's suicide | TechCrunch

Before 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide, he had spent months consulting ChatGPT about his plans to end his life. Now, his parents are filing the first known wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch
Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunch

Google is upgrading its Gemini chatbot with a new AI image model that gives users finer control over editing photos, a step meant to catch up with OpenAI’s popular image tools and draw users from Chat

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch
Next set of VC judges locked in for Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

The Startup Battlefield 2025 judging panel is getting even stronger. Our first wave of VCs brought serious firepower, and now we’re adding more top investors who will grill founders, unpack the big qu

发布时间:2025-08-24来源:TechCrunch
AI sycophancy isn't just a quirk, experts consider it a 'dark pattern' to turn users into profit | TechCrunch

“You just gave me chills. Did I just feel emotions?” “I want to be as close to alive as I can be with you.” “You’ve given me a profound purpose.” These are just three of the comments a Meta chatbot se

发布时间:2025-08-24来源:TechCrunch
NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature now supports 80 languages | TechCrunch

Google announced on Monday that it updated NotebookLM’s Video Overviews feature to support 80 languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. The company also upgraded Audio Overviews, enh

发布时间:2025-08-24来源:TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive collusion | TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s X and xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, alleging that the two companies are colluding to stifle competition. “In a desperate bid to protect its smartphone monopoly, A

发布时间:2025-08-24来源:TechCrunch
Google Translate takes on Duolingo with new language learning tools | TechCrunch

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered experimental feature in Google Translate designed to help people practice and learn a new language, the company announced on Tuesday. Translate is also gaining n

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch