Data exposed even briefly can live on in generative AI chatbots long after the data is made private.
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Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through [β¦]
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ProximaΒ Fusion, a two-year-old, German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as a step-change in the race to generate limitless energy. Todayβs nuclear fission reactors create radioactive waste, whereas nuclear fusion releases vast amounts of energy, with zero carbon emissions and [β¦]
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Anthropic, one of the worldβs largest AI vendors, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With Anthropicβs model ecosystem growing so quickly, it can be tough to keep track of which Claude [β¦]
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OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.
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YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras.
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Anthropicβs newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost βa few tens of millions of dollarsβ to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. Thatβs according to Wharton professorΒ Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification heβd received from Anthropicβs PR. βI was contacted by Anthropic who told me [β¦]
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Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund, CNBC reported. Although the majority of the capital is coming from limited partners, Perplexity is using some of the capital it raised for the companyβs growth to anchor the fund. Perplexity reportedly raised $500 million at a [β¦]
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Amy Gleason is named as the acting administrator of DOGE, amid ambiguity over Elon Musk's role.
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On Tuesday afternoon, Anthropic launched Claude Plays PokΓ©mon on Twitch, a livestream of Anthropicβs newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, playing a game of PokΓ©mon Red. Itβs become a fascinating experiment of sorts, showcasing the capabilities of todayβs AI tech and peopleβs reactions to them. AI researchers have used all sorts of video games, from [β¦]
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Lucid Motors is changing CEOs for the first time in nearly six years. The company announced Tuesday that Peter Rawlinson is stepping down from the CEO and CTO roles that heβs held since before the company went public. Rawlinson has also left Lucidβs board, according to a regulatory filing. Lucid appointed its chief operating officer [β¦]
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Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot. The Jabil deal is the second major pilot announced by Apptronik. [β¦]
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OpenAI announced on Tuesday that itβs rolling out deep research, its web browsing agent that creates thorough research reports, to all paying ChatGPT users. ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers will get 10 deep research queries per month. OpenAIβs Deep research was previously only available to ChatGPT Pro users, the companyβs $200-a-month tier; they [β¦]
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A new Mac app called Framous launched on Tuesday, giving you the ability to add device frames around screenshots to make them look more professional.Β The helpful new tool can aid app developers, graphic designers, and even journalists who need to add an iPhone or Mac frame β also known as a mockup or template [β¦]
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Apple shareholders rejected an anti-DEI proposal at its investor meeting Tuesday. The proposal was brought by a conservative group called the National Center for Public Policy Research. It asked Apple to end its DEI activities. Boards typically ask shareholders to reject shareholder proposals, and this was one of four such shareholder proposals. This proposal gained [β¦]
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Updated 4:11 p.m. Eastern: OpenAI said that its whitepaper was incorrectly worded to suggest that its work on persuasion research was related to its decision on whether to make the deep research model available in its API. The company has updated the whitepaper to reflect that its persuasion work is separate from its deep research [β¦]
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Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others. Launched as a Kickstarter project in January 2024, Tapestry went on to raise over $177,000 via crowdfunding for its app, which opened up to the [β¦]
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Poe, Quoraβs platform that brings together a number of AI models under one roof, has launched a new capability that lets users build visual interfaces β apps, essentially β on top of any combination of models. Called Poe Apps, the feature allows Poe users to describe the app they want to create in the new [β¦]
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Fintech Brex expects its annual net revenue to reach $500 million in 2025, according to a person familiar with the companyβs operations as cited by Bloomberg and The Information. While the startup did not comment on the specific revenue projection, it did share that Brex has seen β3x overall revenue growthβ year-over-year. It also told [β¦]
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