Binance restarts services in India after seven-month regulatory halt
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resumed operations for users in India after a seven-month hiatus imposed by a local authority for operating “illegally” in the country. The exchange said Thursday it has registered as a reporting entity with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a government agency tasked with
Read moreVideo of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for
Read moreMeet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of Donald Trump smoking marijuana on the Joe Rogan show, for example, and upload it straight to the X platform. But
Read moreFilmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition
One of the first topics tackled was the impractical nature of today's video generators. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBiden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’
At the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference, the most popular man to drop by was not a TikTok superstar or a YouTube sensation. It was President Joe Biden, who emphasized social media creators’ role in shaping public opinion. “Until about three, four months ago, I didn’t pay very
Read moreNEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B
World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei Fei Li, has raised two rounds of financing two months apart, according to multiple reports. The latest financing was led by NEA and valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned from several people with
Read moreStudy suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch
The research suggest that models aren't hallucinating much less, despite claims to the contrary from OpenAI, Anthropic and the other big AI players. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Read moreFTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Wednesday a final rule that will tackle several types of fake reviews and prohibit marketers from using deceptive practices, such as AI-generated reviews, censoring honest negative reviews, and compensating third parties for positive reviews. The decision was the result of a 5-to-0
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