Amazon says that it’s establishing a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, to focus on building “foundational” capabilities for AI agents. The Amazon AGI SF Lab, which will be led…
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced that it’s sending the first round of payments to consumers tricked by Fortnite maker Epic Games into making unwanted purchases, with refunds totaling over $72 million. The…
The OpenAI Startup Fund, the early-stage AI investor affiliated with OpenAI, recently disclosed in a financial filing that it has raised over $44 million for its fifth Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) — its biggest so…
Spotify has officially discontinued Car Thing, its in-car streaming device, with all units now disabled, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Earlier today, an X user noticed that their Car Thing is indeed no longer functioning,…
X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its Grok assistant this past Saturday. Then, it removed it. Now, it’s bringing it back — and officially announcing it….
Ai Pin maker Humane demoed CosmOS, a new operating system aimed at (potentially) improving all the tech devices in your life — from your car’s entertainment system to your smart speaker, TV, and Android phone….
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it has closed a preliminary investigation into Fisker over complaints that its all-electric Ocean SUV rolls away unexpectedly. The U.S. safety regulator opened an investigation in February…
OpenAI launched its video-generating tool, Sora, on Monday. But the company’s opting not to release a key feature for most users pending further testing. The feature in question generates a video using an uploaded photo…
Alexis Conneau thinks a lot about the movie “Her.” For the last several years, he’s obsessed over trying to turn the film’s fictional voice technology, Samantha, into a reality. Conneau even uses a picture of…
WhatsApp fixed a bug that allowed malicious users to save pictures and videos that were supposed to be viewed only once and then vanish. In September, TechCrunch reported that a bug in the implementation of…
Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, is launching today — at least for some users. YouTuber Marques Brownlee revealed the news in a video published to his channel Monday morning. Brownlee got early access to Sora, and…