This Week in AI: AWS loses a top AI exec - Tech Crunch
Wood's departure comes as AWS reaches a crossroads — andrisksbeing left behind in the generative AI boom. The company's previous CEO, Adam Selipsky, …
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Anthropic CEO goes full techno-optimist in 15,000-word paean toAI| Tech Crunch
Tech Crunch...risksare mitigated and the tech delivers heretofore unrealized prosperity, social uplift, and abundance. He asserts this isn't to minimize AI's …
Numeric grabs $28M Series A to automate accounting usingAI- Tech Crunch
The possibility of AI hallucination sin the flux analysis commentary is one of the first concerns to come to mind, but Gilbert stressed that's …
Zoom's custom AI avatar tool may come withrisks- Tech Crunch
They could also pose a deepfakerisk, however. A number of companies have developed AI tech to digitally “clone” a person's face and pair that clone …
How Kapa uses LLMs to help companies answer users' technical questions reliably
This focus on providing accurate responses about technical documentation, with minimalhallucinations, highlights how Kapa.aiis a different kind of …
Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze
AI · Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinateless · Kyle Wiggers. 35 mins ago. Facebook: Opting out of AI training. AI · Hey, UK!
Google Lens can now answer questions about videos - Tech Crunch
Ask a question while recording a video, and Lens will link out to an answer supplied by AI Overviews, the feature in Google Search that uses AI to …
This Week in AI: OpenAI is stretched thin - Tech Crunch
Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinateless · Kyle Wiggers · Hey, UK! Here's how to 'opt out' of Meta using your Facebook and …
Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinateless | Tech Crunch
While no technique can solve these “hallucinations,” some can help. For example, retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, pairs an AI model with a …
Pallet uses AI to bring logistics into the 21st century - Tech Crunch
... that uses AI to help these businesses streamline their operations from order entry to dispatching drivers, managing inventory, and accounting …
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs | Tech Crunch
The recruiting startup that uses AI to find candidates was last valued at over $1.2 billion in January 2022. Gopuff. Eliminated 6% of its staff in …
EU's DSA enforcers send more questions to Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about AI risks
These rules require larger platforms to identify and mitigaterisksthat could result from their use of AI as a content recommending tool, with the …
Here is what's illegal under California's 18 (and counting) new AI laws - Tech Crunch
In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom considered 38AI-related bills, including the highly contentious SB 1047, which the state's …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $120M fund for global AI education - Tech Crunch
Pichai acknowledged that AI also presentsrisks, for example with deep ...AI divide and limit AI'sbenefits.” More Tech Crunch. Get the …
Here is what's illegal under California's 8 (and counting) new AI laws - Tech Crunch
These bills try to address the most pressing issues inartificial intelligence: everything from futuristic AI systems creating existentialrisk, …
Google's Gen AI facing privacyriskassessment scrutiny in Europe - Tech Crunch
Generative AI tools are infamous for producing plausible-sounding falsehoods. That tendency, combined with an ability to serve up personal information …
US, UK and EU sign on to the Council of Europe's high-level AI safety treaty | Tech Crunch
Essentially the third of these commits signing countries to setting up regulators to protect against “AI risks.” (It doesn't specify what those risks …
Spark Labs closes $50M fund to back AI startups - Tech Crunch
Swirl: a video platform in India that uses AI to help brands connect with customers on their websites and mobile apps through features like videos …
California's legislature just passed AI bill SB 1047; here's why some hope the governor won't sign it
Tech Crunch...AI model. Developers must also create testing procedures that addressrisksposed by AI models, and must hire third-party auditors annually to …
Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk's unhinged AI image generator
Besides that incident, Grok generateshallucinatedheadlines that appear to users on X almost weekly. Just last week, five secretaries of state urged …
Study suggests that even the best AI modelshallucinatea bunch - Tech Crunch
The research suggest that models aren'thallucinatingmuch less, despite claims to the contrary from OpenAI, Anthropic and the other big AI …
Google adds new AI-powered features for photo editing and image generation | Tech Crunch
... that uses AI to help hardware companies find manufacturing partners. The defense tech acquisition spree has begun: Autonomous factory startup …
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MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks- Tech Crunch
A group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have compiled what they claim is the most thorough databases of possiblerisksaround AI use …
Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations - Tech Crunch
...risksmodels pose today, and the state of existing AI model evaluations. They then interviewed 16 experts, including four employees at unnamed …
This Week in AI: Companies are growing skeptical of AI's ROI - Tech Crunch
Just Tuesday, Bloomberg published a piece about a Google-powered tool that uses AI to analyze patient medical records, now in testing at HCA …
U.S. Commerce Department report endorses 'open'AI models - Tech Crunch
“The openness of the largest and most powerful AI systems will affect competition, innovation andrisksin these revolutionary tools,” Alan Davidson, …
NIST releases a tool for testing AI modelrisk- Tech Crunch
NIST has re-released a tool designed to help companies test for and understand some of the potentialrisksarising from AI models …
Mark Zuckerberg imagines content creators making AI clones of themselves - Tech Crunch
Buthallucinations— and general mistakes in planning and reasoning — remain an unsolved problem in generative AI, and Meta offers no research …
Tinder's AI Photo Selector automatically picks the best photos for your dating profile
Tech Crunch Tinder revealed last year that it was testing a photo-selection feature that uses AI to help users choose the best photos for their dating …
Didero is using AI to solve supply chain management at mid-market companies
Tech Crunch ... that uses AI to help users choose the best photos for their dating profiles. Now dubbed “Photo Selector,” the… Tinder's AI Photo Selector …