Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation
Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million — has been spreading false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter penned by five secretaries of
Read moreTechCrunch Space: I’m tired of talking about Starliner, too
Listen, I'm tired of talking about Boeing's Starliner, too, but the spacecraft still isn't home and questions are mounting about NASA's transparency. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreLucid pumps $1.5B from Saudi wealth fund after CEO warned relying on its ‘bottomless wealth’ was ‘dangerous’
Saudi Arabia is committing even more money to Lucid Motors as the EV startup struggles to erase its losses. Lucid announced Monday as part of its second-quarter earnings report that an affiliate of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund is committing another $1.5 billion, with half coming in the form of
Read moreGoogle loses massive antitrust case over search, will appeal ruling
Google will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s opinion Monday that found the technology giant acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search. The decision from Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is a major defeat for Google that could alter
Read moreOpenAI tempers expectations with less bombastic, GPT-5-less DevDay this fall
Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store. This year will be a quieter affair, however. On Monday, OpenAI said it’s changing the format of its DevDay conference
Read moreMuon Space closes $56M to scale all-in-one satellite platform
Muon Space closed a new tranche of funding for its space-as-a-service business. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAnnouncing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and Space as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. We couldn’t possibly host TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 without a huge deep dive on
Read morePlacer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M
A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who's who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple’s new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites
Safari’s newest feature, Distraction Control, can remove distracting elements from a website. The feature follows Browser Company’s Arc Browse’s addition of Boosts last year, which similarly lets users remove features from a site and further customize its appearance. Apple is rolling out the early version of the feature this week
Read moreEvery Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work
Illustration: The Verge Microsoft made it clear earlier this year that it was planning to make security its top priority, following years of security issues and mounting criticisms. Starting today, the software giant is now tying its security efforts to employee performance reviews. Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, has
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