Category: Enterprise
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Researchers are training home robots in simulations based on iPhone scans
Researchers at MIT CSAIL this week are showcasing a new method for training home robots in simulation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. There’s a long list of reasons why you don’t see a lot of non-vacuum robots in the home. At the top of the list is the problem…
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Mistral’s Large 2 is its answer to Meta and OpenAI’s latest models
For frontier AI models, when it rains, it pours. Mistral released a fresh new flagship model on Wednesday, Large 2, which it claims to be on par with the latest cutting edge models from OpenAI and Meta in terms of code generation, mathematics, and reasoning. The release of Mistral Large 2 falls just one day…
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Star Catcher wants to build a space power grid to supercharge orbital industry
Our growth as a civilization is tightly coupled to our ability to sufficiently generate ever-increasing amounts of electricity. Could the same be true in space? Star Catcher Industries, a startup just emerging from stealth today, is betting that might be the case. The company is developing a space-based energy grid that could enable more power-intensive…
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A new Chinese video-generating model appears to be censoring politically sensitive topics
A powerful new video-generating AI model became widely available today — but there’s a catch: The model appears to be censoring topics deemed too politically sensitive by the government in its country of origin, China. The model, Kling, developed by Beijing-based company Kuaishou, launched in waitlisted access earlier in the year for users with a…
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CRED launches personal finance manager for India’s affluent
CRED, an Indian fintech startup, has rolled out a new feature that will help its customers manage and gain deeper insights into their cash flow, as the startup seeks to drive engagement through personal finance tools. Known primarily for its credit card bill payment and consumer lending service, the new feature of the Bengaluru-based startup…
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Hacker claims theft of Piramal Group’s employee data
A hacker claims to be selling data relating to thousands of current and former employees of India’s Piramal Group. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. A hacker claims to be selling data relating to thousands of current and former employees of the Indian conglomerate Piramal Group, a multinational company that…
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Astranis is set to build Omega constellation after $200M Series D
Astranis has fully funded its next-generation satellite program, called Omega, after closing its $200 million Series D round, the company said Wednesday. “This next satellite is really the milestone into the next frontier for Astranis,” Megan Sapack, Astranis’ avionics lead, said in a video. Astranis develops and operates small broadband communications satellites in geostationary orbit.…
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After AgentGPT’s success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents
Reworkd’s founders went viral on GitHub last year with AgentGPT, a free tool to build AI agents that acquired more than 100,000 daily users in a week. This earned them a spot in Y Combinator’s summer 2023 cohort, but the co-founders quickly realized building general AI agents was too broad. So now Reworkd is a…
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Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and Space as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. We couldn’t possibly host TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 without a huge deep dive on all things artificial intelligence. So,…
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‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail
If the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps without even knowing it, they’ll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. When you see the mythical ouroboros, it’s perfectly logical to think “well, that won’t last.” A potent symbol, swallowing your own tail…