<p>Over the last 15 years or so, as European venture capital shifted into a higher gear, one way to help a nation’s ecosystem flourish was to invest in founders from that that country, regardless of where they were based. This would h...
Published on: March 13, 2025, 12:00 am<p>Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit in L.A., “Look, [new managemen...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 7:28 pm<p>Semiconductor giant Intel hired semiconductor veteran Lip-Bu Tan to be its new CEO. This news comes three months after Pat Gelsinger retired and stepped down from the company’s board, with Intel CFO David Zinsner and executive vice...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 5:20 pm<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried about spies getting their hands on costly "algorithmic secrets" from the U.S.' top AI companies.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:54 pm<p>Intel has appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a major figure in the semiconductor industry, as CEO, the company announced late Wednesday. Tan succeeds interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus. He’ll also rejoin the Intel boar...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:43 pm<p>Food delivery startup Wonder is acquiring media company Tastemade for around $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2012, Tastemade produces food, travel, and home videos and operates several free, ad-supported streami...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:41 pm<p>The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:31 pm<p>GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return starting Monday in San Jose. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments. Many of th...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:20 pm<p>GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news as it happens — and we’re expecting a healthy dose of announcements. CEO J...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:20 pm<p>Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate environments, and more. DeepMind published a series of...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:09 pm<p>Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Published on: March 12, 2025, 1:15 pm<p>Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use. Browser Use, which aims to make websites more acces...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 1:05 pm<p>A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google’s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly’s policies are “holding back innovation” and could also be limiting economic growt...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 11:59 am<p>Since Donald Trump Jr. joined VC firm 1789 Capital after his father won the election, he’s been busy monetizing the Make America Great Again (MAGA) ecosystem. He’s been making bets in media, pharmaceutical, guns, and crypto while...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 11:37 am<p>Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foun...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 11:13 am<p>A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Published on: March 12, 2025, 11:00 am<p>Back in 2019, Microsoft open sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental build...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:26 am<p>Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn’t necessarily untrue, there are caveats to note. The debate swirling around AI and its role in th...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:00 am<p>Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Mar...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:00 am<p>Snapchat is introducing its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house-built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to use...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:00 amGoogle DeepMind has released a new model, Gemini Robotics, that combines its best large language model with robotics. Plugging in the LLM seems to give robots the ability to be more dexterous, work from natural-language commands, and generalize acros...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 9:14 amThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test. Since the general AI agent M...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 6:10 amThis article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Green-steel startup Boston Metal just showed that it has all the ingredients needed to make steel without ...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 6:00 amFor many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic photosynthesis—the process by which plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their fuel. These artificial leaves use sunlight to separate water into oxygen and hydr...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 3:00 amSince the general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in China, where it was developed by the Wuhan-based startup Butterfly Effect. It’s made  its way into the global conversation, with i...
Published on: March 11, 2025, 4:21 pmThe Canadian robotruck startup Waabi says its super-realistic virtual simulation is now accurate enough to prove the safety of its driverless big rigs without having to run them for miles on real roads. The company uses a digital twin of its real-w...
Published on: March 11, 2025, 7:00 amThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Two new measures show where AI models fail on fairness What’s new: A new pair of AI benc...
Published on: March 11, 2025, 6:30 amThis story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The concept of artificial general intelligence—an ultra-powerful AI system we don’t have yet—can be thoug...
Published on: March 11, 2025, 3:00 amNew AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them fairer and less likely to cause harm. The research, from a team based at Stanford, was posted to the arXiv preprint server in early February. The researchers we...
Published on: March 11, 2025, 2:00 amThis is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid —Brian Deese is an innovation fel...
Published on: March 10, 2025, 6:50 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/image.png?id=57046029&width=980"/><br/><br/><p>The ADQ35-WB is a highly adaptable data acquisition module, offering a dual-channel configuration with a 5 GSPS sam...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-robotic-hand-using-a-finger-to-drag-small-letter-tiles-across-a-table-in-order-to-spell-the-word-world.jpg?id=57025356&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=234%2C0%2C234%2C0"/&...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 9:02 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-aerial-view-of-a-large-ship-floating-in-blue-water-and-a-smaller-boat-circling-around-it.jpg?id=56667653&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><...
Published on: March 12, 2025, 5:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/conceptual-rendering-of-a-satellite-grid-spanning-the-atmosphere-around-earth.jpg?id=56631866&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=205%2C0%2C205%2C0"/><br/><br/>&l...
Published on: March 11, 2025, 5:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/view-looking-up-from-below-at-a-group-of-coworkers-smiling-while-they-stand-in-a-circle-with-their-hands-stacked-on-top-of-one-a.jpg?id=56704696&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=9...
Published on: March 10, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/overhead-view-of-two-engineers-working-under-the-hood-of-a-machine-during-ammonia-fuel-tests.jpg?id=56650731&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C185%2C0%2C186"/><br/&g...
Published on: March 10, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-rectangular-box-superimposed-on-an-aerial-shot-of-a-modern-factory-the-box-has-a-few-connectors-and-indicator-iight-and-is-la.jpg?id=56656580&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=12...
Published on: March 9, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-realistic-rendering-showing-what-the-athena-lunar-lander-might-look-like-on-the-moon.jpg?id=56650443&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=98%2C0%2C99%2C0"/><br/><br...
Published on: March 7, 2025, 1:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-of-a-hand-putting-a-folded-piece-of-paper-in-a-box.jpg?id=56643949&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C110%2C0%2C111"/><br/><br/><p>On 1...
Published on: March 7, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-humanoid-robot-lies-on-the-ground-as-an-engineer-removes-its-chest-plate-revealing-electronics-inside.png?id=56658811&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=150%2C0%2C150%2C0"/&g...
Published on: March 7, 2025, 9:30 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-and-united-states-president-trump-having-a-tense-disagreement-in-the-white-house-s-oval-office.jpg?id=56657757&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=185%2...
Published on: March 7, 2025, 9:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-photo-of-a-smiling-man-in-a-suit-and-wearing-glasses.jpg?id=56643578&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C100%2C0%2C100"/><br/><br/><p>IEEE Fellow <...
Published on: March 6, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/two-engineers-soldering-a-circuit-board-in-a-university-computer-lab.jpg?id=56635811&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=93%2C0%2C94%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><...
Published on: March 6, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-cloudy-red-partial-ring-in-a-field-of-stars-left-a-red-sphere-on-a-field-of-black-right.jpg?id=56635642&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C619%2C0%2C619"/><br/>&...
Published on: March 5, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/researchers-collecting-water-samples-from-a-stream.jpg?id=56630641&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=186%2C0%2C186%2C0"/><br/><br/><p> <em style="...
Published on: March 4, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/three-electric-vehicle-charging-ports-are-illuminated-in-green-against-a-black-nighttime-sky.png?id=56626355&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=462%2C0%2C463%2C0"/><br/&g...
Published on: March 4, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-series-of-several-images-of-colored-squares.jpg?id=56266498&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=450%2C0%2C450%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>The most successful semic...
Published on: March 3, 2025, 2:26 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-black-and-white-image-of-a-woman-surrounded-by-mathematical-equations.jpg?id=56594301&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C87%2C0%2C88"/><br/><br/><p>W...
Published on: March 3, 2025, 1:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-concept-image-showing-a-small-robot-consisting-of-a-single-leg-and-a-large-foot-with-two-wheels-on-the-sides-performing-a-seri.png?id=56612012&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0...
Published on: March 3, 2025, 9:30 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-woman-in-a-jogging-position-with-one-foot-on-the-ground-and-the-other-lifted-while-wearing-a-robotic-brace-around-her-stomac.jpg?id=56615638&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2...
Published on: March 2, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-smiling-woman-in-a-magenta-suit.jpg?id=56605899&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C544%2C0%2C545"/><br/><br/><p><em><em>Transformational ...
Published on: March 1, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-robot-made-of-slim-tubes-and-wheels-sits-folded-into-a-ball-in-a-mountain-meadow.jpg?id=56612192&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=135%2C0%2C135%2C0"/><br/><br/&...
Published on: February 28, 2025, 9:45 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/pair-of-gold-leafed-illustrations-showing-a-sailor-on-a-wooden-ship-holding-a-rope.jpg?id=56592872&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C52%2C0%2C52"/><br/><br/>...
Published on: February 28, 2025, 7:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/illustrated-pattern-made-up-of-multiple-word-documents-with-large-language-model-symbols-pointing-at-each-of-them.jpg?id=56605608&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C187%2C0%2C18...
Published on: February 27, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-of-a-series-of-chips-surrounding-a-white-ball-of-white.jpg?id=56552623&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C35%2C0%2C35"/><br/><br/><p>Qu...
Published on: February 27, 2025, 8:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/golden-lines-on-a-black-background-reminiscent-of-a-circuit-diagram.jpg?id=56580299&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=69%2C0%2C70%2C0"/><br/><br/><p><s...
Published on: February 26, 2025, 5:00 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/collage-of-manga-panels-that-show-a-young-girl-working-on-a-robot-writing-code-in-python-and-testing-a-seismograph.jpg?id=56585775&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C119%2C0%2C1...
Published on: February 25, 2025, 12:00 pm<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/andrew-ng-listens-during-the-power-of-data-sooner-than-you-think-global-technology-conference-in-brooklyn-new-york-on-wednes.jpg?id=29206806&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C0...
Published on: February 9, 2022, 8:31 am<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/layered-rendering-of-colorful-semiconductor-wafers-with-a-bright-white-light-sitting-on-one.jpg?id=29285079&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/><br/><...
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