OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free
GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum in a statement encouraged “other American AI technology companies to follow OpenAI’s lead and work with us.”
Read moreGenesis Block Easter Egg
The White House put out a position paper Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology a few days ago. The last page of the paper contains a hex dump. Kinda surprising to see something like that coming out of the White House, but it makes sense in the context of
Read moreGoogle’s AI coding agent Jules is now out of beta
Google today launched its AI coding agent, Jules, out of beta — just over two months after its public preview debut in May.
Read morePayment platform Lava raises $5.8M to build digital wallets for the ‘agent-native economy’
Lava is a digital wallet that lets merchants use credits to facilitate transactions.
Read moreKey sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.
Read moreTavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web
The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.
Read moreCitizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.
Read moreMaking the two-dimensional one-dimensional
We often want to reduce something that’s inherently two-dimensional into something one-dimensional. We want to turn graph into a list. And we’d like to do this with some kind of faithfulness. We’d like things that are close together in 2D space to be close together in their 1D representation, and
Read moreFinal call: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 ticket savings end tonight
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of shaping the startup world — and tonight’s your last chance to save up to $675 on your ticket. From October 27–29, Disrupt returns to Moscone West in San Francisco. Join 10,000+ tech innovators, founders, VCs, and ecosystem builders for three days of high-impact
Read morePhoto-sharing app Locket is banking on a new celebrity-focused feature to fuel its growth
Celebrity Lockets is a new feature where celebrities can engage with their most loyal followers on their home screens.
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