Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and genAI products to Indian businesses
Airtel, India's second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreTop 5 Unrealistic Robots in Hollywood Movies: Expert
AI Hollywood adores nothing more than a sleek, intelligent robot. We’ve witnessed humanoid assistants, towering war machines, and even robotic companions. However, despite their on-screen dominance, some of cinema’s most iconic robots would falter in the real world. An impractical robot, in this context, refers to a design or functionality
Read moreWomen in AI: Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick wants to pass more AI legislation
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often
Read moreA reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing
We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it's been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreWorkers at a Maryland Apple store authorize strike
It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted against forming a union. Back in 2022, workers the Apple store in Towson, Maryland became organized the first formally recognized
Read moreAlora Baby aims to push baby gear away from the ‘landfill economy’
Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGo on, let bots date other bots
Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang brought up bots posing as real people, or real people falling in love with bots, as examples of how AI
Read moreLogarithm approximation curiosity
I’ve written before about three simple approximations for logarithms, for base 10 log10(x) ≈ (x – 1)/(x + 1) base e, loge(x) ≈ 2(x – 1)/(x + 1) and base 2 log2(x) ≈ 3(x – 1)/(x + 1). These can be used to mentally approximate logarithms to moderate accuracy, accurate
Read moreWhy Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided
Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air, as well as Tandem OLED and a new M4 chip for the iPad Pro. But its ad
Read moreU.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety
The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations. Called Inspect, the toolset — which is available under an open source license, specifically an MIT
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