First impressions of ChatGPT o1: An AI designed to overthink it
OpenAI released its new o1 models on Thursday, giving ChatGPT users their first chance to try AI models that pause to “think” before they answer. There’s been a lot of hype building up to these models, codenamed “strawberry” inside OpenAI. But does strawberry live up to the hype? Sort of.
Read moreA fight is brewing as TuSimple tries to move $450M to China and pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation
TuSimple, once a buzzy startup considered a leader in self-driving trucks, is trying to move its assets to China to fund a new AI-generated animation and video game business. The pivot has not only puzzled and enraged several shareholders, but also threatens to pull the company back into a legal
Read moreSome startups and investors are more risk-averse than others
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week once again proved that the startup world isn’t homogeneous when it comes to risk-taking. Let’s have a look. Most interesting
Read moreY Combinator expanding to four cohorts a year in 2025
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator will expand the number of cohorts it runs each year from two to four starting in 2025, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Y Combinator president Garry Tan told the site that approximately the same number of companies will go through YC each year, despite the change.
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Meta acknowledges it’s scraping all public posts for AI training
If you’re wondering if your Facebook and Instagram posts have been used to train AI models at parent company Meta, the answer is almost certainly yes. That’s probably not a huge surprise. Meta already announced that it’s using user content and data to train AI — but this week, its
Read moreTelegram CEO Durov’s arrest hasn’t dampened enthusiasm for its TON blockchain
Telegram has had a tough few weeks lately. The messaging app’s founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in late August and later released on a €5 million bail in France, charged with running a company complicit in distributing child sexual abuse material, and facilitating drug trafficking and organized fraud. Predictably, that
Read moreA fireside chat with Andreessen Horowitz partner Martin Casado at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Martin Casado, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, will tackle one of the most pressing issues facing today’s tech world — AI regulation — only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 28-30. Casado is a pioneering figure in software-defined networking and is
Read moreVanta’s Christina Cacioppo takes the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Christina Cacioppo, CEO and co-founder of Vanta, will be on the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to reveal how Vanta is redefining security and compliance automation and driving innovation through AI. Under her leadership, Vanta has achieved a $2.45 billion valuation in just five years and has scaled rapidly
Read moreFortinet confirms customer data breach
On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data. In a statement posted online, Fortinet said an individual intruder accessed “a limited number of files” stored on a third-party shared cloud drive belonging to Fortinet, which included data belonging to “less than 0.3%” of its customers. The company
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