Source: TechCrunch

Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance…
Devin Coldewey
Aug. 14, 2024, 11:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator

Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of…
Maxwell Zeff
Aug. 14, 2024, 11:03 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition

One of the first topics tackled was the impractical nature of today’s video generators.
Devin Coldewey
Aug. 14, 2024, 10:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B

World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei Fei Li, has raised two rounds of financing  two months apart, according to multiple reports. The latest…
Marina Temkin
Aug. 14, 2024, 9:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Biden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’

At the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference, the most popular man to drop by was not a TikTok superstar or a YouTube sensation. It was President Joe Biden,…
Amanda Silberling
Aug. 14, 2024, 9:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently

Faced with a new hack-and-leak operation targeting the Trump presidential campaign, journalists and media outlets are taking a different approach to their reporting.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Aug. 14, 2024, 8:03 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff

Roughly one week ago during an earnings call, the chief executive addressed ongoing issues with Sonos’ mobile app.
Brian Heater
Aug. 14, 2024, 7:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

FTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Wednesday a final rule that will tackle several types of fake reviews and prohibit marketers from using deceptive practices, such as AI-generated…
Lauren Forristal
Aug. 14, 2024, 6:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch

The research suggest that models aren’t hallucinating much less, despite claims to the contrary from OpenAI, Anthropic and the other big AI players.
Kyle Wiggers
Aug. 14, 2024, 6:33 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model gets weird

OpenAI’s newest GPT-4o model can behave pretty strangely, for example by copying your voice, or by shouting or moaning erotically during a conversation. The reason…
Anthony Ha
Aug. 14, 2024, 6:03 p.m.
5 min read
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