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Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban | TechCrunch

The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services,

发布时间:2025-04-15来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI's latest AI models have a new safeguard to prevent biorisks | TechCrunch

OpenAI says that it deployed a new system to monitor its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. The system aims to prevent the models from

发布时间:2025-04-15来源:TechCrunch
The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos | TechCrunch

There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of whi

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
xAI adds a 'memory' feature to Grok | TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. On Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables

发布时间:2025-04-15来源:TechCrunch
Google's latest AI model report lacks key safety details, experts say | TechCrunch

On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is li

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company | TechCrunch

Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming a company called Arena Intelligence Inc., reports Bloomberg. In a blog post pu

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI's Stargate project sets its sights on international expansion | TechCrunch

Stargate, a $500 billion project headed up by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank to build AI data centers and other AI infrastructure in the U.S., is considering investments in the U.K. and elsewhere overse

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasks | TechCrunch

In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing, an API option that provides lower AI model usage prices in exchange for slower response

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
As the trade war escalates, Hence launches an AI 'advisor' to help companies manage risk | TechCrunch

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have underscored the increasing geopolitical risk that almost all businesses now face. As the situation continues to shift with Trump’s unpredictable deal-making, it’s

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
Former Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fund | TechCrunch

Geoff Ralston, well-known in the startup community for his years at Y Combinator, is back in the formal investing ring, he announced Thursday. His new fund is called Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund,

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
ChatGPT will now use its 'memory' to personalize web searches | TechCrunch

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s “memory” again. In a changelog and support pages on OpenAI’s website Thursday, the company quietly announced “Memory with Search,” a feature that lets ChatGPT draw on mem

发布时间:2025-04-17来源:TechCrunch
Is the SPAC back?

Kodiak Robotics made a financial move that was ubiquitous in 2021. Yup, the self-driving truck startup plans to go public through a merger with Ares Acquisition Corporation II, a special purpose acqui

发布时间:2025-04-18来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B | TechCrunch

When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: “Why not buy Cursor crea

发布时间:2025-04-16来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of

发布时间:2025-04-17来源:TechCrunch
ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' | TechCrunch

Some ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: Occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems. That wasn’t the default behavior previously, and several

发布时间:2025-04-17来源:TechCrunch