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Vento rolls out new €75M fund for Italian founders, no matter where they live

<p>Over the last 15 years or so, as European venture capital shifted into a higher gear, one way to help a nation&#8217;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

Travis Kalanick thinks Uber screwed up: “Wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product”

<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., &#8220;Look, [new managemen...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 7:28 pm

As Intel welcomes a new CEO, a look at where the company stands

<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&#8217;s board, with Intel CFO David Zinsner and executive vice...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 5:20 pm

Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’

<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

Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its next CEO

<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&#8217;ll also rejoin the Intel boar...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:43 pm

Food delivery startup Wonder acquires media company Tastemade for $90M

<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

FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money

<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

How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote

<p>GTC, Nvidia&#8217;s biggest conference of the year, will return starting Monday in San Jose. If you can&#8217;t make it in person, don&#8217;t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments. Many of th...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:20 pm

Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show

<p>GTC, Nvidia&#8217;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&#8217;re expecting a healthy dose of announcements. CEO J...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 2:20 pm

Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots

<p>Google DeepMind, Google&#8217;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

The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe

<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

Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral

<p>Manus, the viral AI &#8220;agent&#8221; 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

UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds Apple-Google duopoly is ‘anti-innovation’

<p>A U.K. competition authority investigation of Apple and Google&#8217;s mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly&#8217;s policies are &#8220;holding back innovation&#8221; and could also be limiting economic growt...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 11:59 am

Donald Trump Jr. has been boosting MAGA-related startups

<p>Since Donald Trump Jr. joined VC firm 1789 Capital after his father won the election, he&#8217;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

OpenStack comes to the Linux Foundation

<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

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs

<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

Dapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents

<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

Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review — but it’s a bit more nuanced than that

<p>Japanese AI startup Sakana said that its AI generated one of the first peer-reviewed scientific publications. But while the claim isn&#8217;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

Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content

<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 &#8220;Marey&#8221; after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Mar...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:00 am

Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model

<p>Snapchat is introducing its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap&#8217;s in-house-built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to use...

Published on: March 12, 2025, 10:00 am

Gemini Robotics uses Google’s top language model to make robots more useful

Google 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 am

The Download: testing new AI agent Manus, and Waabi’s virtual robotruck ambitions

This is today&#8217;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&#8217;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 am

This startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production

This 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 am

This artificial leaf makes hydrocarbons out of carbon dioxide

For 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 am

Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test.

Since 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&#160; its way into the global conversation, with i...

Published on: March 11, 2025, 4:21 pm

Waabi says its virtual robotrucks are realistic enough to prove the real ones are safe

The 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 am

The Download: making AI fairer, and why everyone’s talking about AGI

This is today&#8217;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&#8217;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 am

AGI is suddenly a dinner table topic

This 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 am

These new AI benchmarks could help make models less biased

New 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 am

The Download: supercharging the power grid, and a new Chinese AI agent

This is today&#8217;s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what&#8217;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

Data Acquisition Board With 10 GSPS Sampling Rate and 9 GHz Usable Bandwidth

<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

With Gemini Robotics, Google Aims for Smarter Robots

<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

Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

<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

UK Greenlights Amazon Kuiper, Starlink Faces New Rival

<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

Difference Makers Wanted

<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

World's First Ammonia-Fueled Ship Hits a Snag

<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

Private 5G Network to Boost Hyundai’s EV Production

<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

Getting a Signal on the Moon

<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

Countdown to the Annual IEEE Election

<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

Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab

<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

Rare Earths Reality Check: Ukraine Doesn't Have Minable Deposits

<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

2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Awarded to Broadcom’s Henry Samueli

<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

“Flying Batteries” Could Help Microdrones Take Off

<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

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

<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

World Engineering Day Focuses on Shaping a Sustainable Future

<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

We’re Charging Our Cars Wrong

<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

Cut IC Development Time With Shift-Left DRC

<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

The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

<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

A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus

<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

A Self-Balancing Exoskeleton Strides Toward Market

<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

IEEE President’s Note: Working Toward One IEEE

<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

Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains

<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

The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades

<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

The Challenges and Upsides of Using AI in Scientific Writing

<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

The Future of Quantum Computing Is Modular

<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

Intel, Synopsys, TSMC All Unveil Record Memory Densities

<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

IEEE Manga Contest Winners Create EE-Inspired Storylines

<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

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

<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

How AI Will Change Chip Design

<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/><...

Published on: February 8, 2022, 7:00 am

Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits

<img src="https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/a-golden-square-package-holds-a-small-processor-sitting-on-top-is-a-metal-square-with-mit-etched-into-it.jpg?id=29281587&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0"/>&...

Published on: February 7, 2022, 9:12 am

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