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OpenAI and the FDA are reportedly discussing AI for drug evaluations | TechCrunch

OpenAI has met with officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the agency’s use of AI to speed up drug evaluations, Wired reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Ope

发布时间:2025-05-06来源:TechCrunch
Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search | TechCrunch

Anthropic is launching a new API that allows its Claude AI models to search across the web. Developers using it can build Claude-powered apps that deliver up-to-date info, the company said in a press

发布时间:2025-05-06来源:TechCrunch
Why Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTO | TechCrunch

Hims & Hers, the telehealth and wellness company, has hired a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as its next chief technology officer. The move, according to Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO And

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI | TechCrunch

Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI as CEO of Applications, the ChatGPT maker said on Thursday. Simo, already a board member at OpenAI, will transition out of Instacart over the next few months

发布时间:2025-05-06来源:TechCrunch
Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla | TechCrunch

Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it has invent

发布时间:2025-05-06来源:TechCrunch
Amazon's newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listings | TechCrunch

Amazon said Thursday it is releasing a new generative AI-powered tool to help merchants improve their listings with missing details or attributes. Sellers often have hundreds of products listed on Ama

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds | TechCrunch

Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have. That’s according to a new study from Giskard, a Paris-based AI testing company developing a

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams | TechCrunch

Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant will begin using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on des

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Sequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup Clay | TechCrunch

It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022. Since then, the startup has experienced ex

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia | TechCrunch

OpenAI is introducing a new data residency program in Asia, the company announced Thursday, following the rollout of its data residency program in Europe in February. The new program, which is availab

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab | TechCrunch

Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for roughly five years, per his

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Google launches 'implicit caching' to make accessing its latest AI models cheaper | TechCrunch

Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says  | TechCrunch

Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
ChatGPT's deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code | TechCrunch

OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep resea

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture | TechCrunch

Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in deposits made by consumers, mostly customers o

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch