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Today — 26 December 2024TechCrunch News

AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?

26 December 2024 at 15:47

When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing business processes.  But there are some exceptions. And one of them appears to be an area known as AI sales development representatives, or AI SDRs. […]

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Watch this robotic ‘Superman Suit’ rotate around a gymnastics bar

By: TC Video
26 December 2024 at 13:54

Scientists at the Suzumori Endo Robotics lab in Tokyo have developed the Superman Suit: a suit powered by hydraulic artificial muscles that allow it to perform superhuman tasks. In this video, the suit demonstrates the ability to complete 15 rotations around a bar, making anyone into a great gymnast.

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ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals

26 December 2024 at 13:31

ChatGPT's new search feature can be told to generate entirely positive product summaries thanks to hidden code, new research finds.

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ChatGPT and Sora went down for the second time this month

26 December 2024 at 12:41

ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API were down on Thursday for more than four hours. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 a.m. PT, but now says its services are slowly coming back online as of 3:16 p.m. PT. Frequent users of ChatGPT may recall that the service went down earlier this […]

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DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet

26 December 2024 at 11:44

DeepSeek V3 can handle a range of text-based workloads and tasks, like coding, translating, and writing essays and emails from a descriptive prompt.

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report

26 December 2024 at 09:16

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup’s profits, according to a new report from The Information. And by this definition, OpenAI is many years away from reaching it. The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when […]

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Elon Musk’s jets made 355 trips in 2024, including 31 to or from the Mar-a-Lago area 

26 December 2024 at 09:09

Elon Musk’s jets took over 355 flights this year, with 31 of those flights heading to or from near Mar-a-Lago. 

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These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024

26 December 2024 at 06:00

Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024.

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Yesterday — 25 December 2024TechCrunch News

PharmEasy investor cuts value of its stake drastically, implying new valuation of $456M

25 December 2024 at 22:49

Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy is now being valued at about $456 million after its investor Janus Henderson said in a filing that it valued its stake of 12.9 million shares in the startup at $766,043. The asset manager’s Global Research Fund had originally spent $9.4 million to acquire these shares. This valuation is 92% less […]

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Bluesky is testing a trending topics feature

25 December 2024 at 22:21

Social network Bluesky said on Christmas that it is testing a trending topics view. The trending topics are visible both on the desktop and mobile apps of the social network for users across the world. On the desktop, you can see trending topics on the right sidebar, and on the mobile app, you can tap […]

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GV, the VC team backed by Google, has a broad remit, but it can’t do one thing

25 December 2024 at 09:22

David Krane is in an enviable position. As the CEO of GV, the venture firm that is funded entirely by Google to the tune of $1 billion a year, his team of roughly 100 gets to make a lot of bets — with just a couple of notable restrictions. During a TechCrunch StrictlyVC event in […]

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AMD’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch

25 December 2024 at 08:00

AMD has its work cut out for it at CES 2025. Competitor Nvidia has been sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces, as the chipmaker remains at the forefront of the AI boom. So, how will AMD compete with Nvidia’s reported RTX 5000 announcement? The company should show off its own next-gen GPU. […]

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Home for the holidays? Share this top cybersecurity advice with friends and family

25 December 2024 at 05:00

Sharing security advice can go a long way in protecting your loved ones from the most common and damaging online threats.

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Onyx Motorbikes is back, one year after its owner died leaving the company in shambles

24 December 2024 at 11:12

A year after Onyx Motorbikes owner James Khatiblou died suddenly, leaving customers with unfulfilled orders and millions in unpaid debts, the brand has been revived by its original founder. “I’m excited to announce I have resurrected my original brand Onyx with incredible backers!” founder Tim Seward wrote in a LinkedIn post on Monday. “Onyx is […]

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Sony’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch

24 December 2024 at 10:00

Sony knows how to put on a show at CES. The company’s pressers are high-octane, star-studded affairs, as these things go. In addition to standard Sony fare like TVs and audio systems, there’s always a curve ball or two, be it a car, a drone, or a “Gran Turismo” movie. That’s one of the perks […]

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OpenAI ‘considered’ building a humanoid robot: Report

24 December 2024 at 09:19

OpenAI has recently explored building its own humanoid robot, according to The Information. The report cites “two people with direct knowledge” of those conversations. The ChatGPT maker has been involved in the space for some time now, by way of financial backing. It has thus far invested in Figure and 1X, along with the “general […]

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The promise and perils of synthetic data

24 December 2024 at 09:02

Is it possible for an AI to be trained just on data generated by another AI? It might sound like a harebrained idea. But it’s one that’s been around for quite some time — and as new, real data is increasingly hard to come by, it’s been gaining traction. Anthropic used some synthetic data to […]

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Samsung’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch

24 December 2024 at 09:00

Samsung’s CES presser is always an odd duck. The Korean electronics giant generally keeps its powder dry when it comes to consumer electronics. After all, it’s expected to announce its latest flagship handset — the Galaxy S25 — toward the end of January. CES 2025 is going to continue the company’s tradition of TVs and […]

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Google is using Anthropic’s Claude to improve its Gemini AI

24 December 2024 at 08:20

Contractors working on Google Gemini are comparing its responses to Claude's, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch.

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