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Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe
U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions.
View the articleTravis Kalanick thinks Uber screwed up: “Wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product”
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit...
View the articleAs Intel welcomes a new CEO, a look at where the company stands
Semiconductor giant Intel hired semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan to be its new CEO. This news comes three months after Pat Gelsinger retired and stepped down from the company’s board, with Intel CFO...
View the articleAnthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried about spies getting their hands on costly "algorithmic secrets" from the U.S.' top AI companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleIntel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its next CEO
Intel has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a major figure in the semiconductor industry, as CEO, the company announced late Wednesday. Tan succeeds interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus. H...
View the articleFood delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade for $90M
Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for around $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2021, Tastemade produces food, travel, and home videos and op...
View the articleFBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money
The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleNvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news as it happens — and we’re expecting a healthy dos...
View the articleHow to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return starting Monday in San Jose. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major develop...
View the articleGoogle DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots
Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate environments, and mor...
View the articleThe people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe
Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleBrowser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral
Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use. Browser Use, which aims to...
View the articleUK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’
A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google’s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly’s policies are “holding back innovation” and could also be limiting econo...
View the articleDonald Trump Jr. has been boosting MAGA-related startups
Since Donald Trump Jr. joined VC firm 1789 Capital after his father won the election, he’s been busy monetizing the Make America Great Again (MAGA) ecosystem. He’s been making bets in media, pharm...
View the articleOpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation
Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies t...
View the articleA comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleDapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents
Back in 2019, Microsoft open-sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns ou...
View the articleSnap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model
Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house built generative video model. The three new AI V...
View the articleMoonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content
Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trail...
View the articleSakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that
Japanese startup Sakana said that its AI generated the first peer-reviewed scientific publication. But while the claim isn’t untrue, there are significant caveats to note. The debate swirling around...
View the articleGarantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law
Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India's Kerala on Tuesday under the country's extradition law. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleHow AI Agents Are Reshaping Security and Fraud Detection in the Business World
Fraud and cybersecurity threats are escalating at an alarming rate. Businesses lose an estimated 5% of their annual revenue to fraud. The digital transformation of financial services, e-commerce, and ...
View the articleAgentic AI Is a Delicate Four-Way Dance Democratizing Access to Critical Business Insights
AI has been replete with false claims since its inception, fueled in part by a widespread knowledge gap. Those without a technical background may struggle to distinguish between terms like generative ...
View the articleHow Does AI Use Impact Critical Thinking?
Artificial intelligence (AI) can process hundreds of documents in seconds, identify imperceptible patterns in vast datasets and provide in-depth answers to virtually any question. It has the potential...
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