Huang and Zuckerberg swapped jackets at SIGGRAPH 2024 and things got weird
A fireside chat on Monday between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference in Colorado took a few unexpected turns. It started innocently enough, with Huang waxing positive about the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs and Zuckerberg speaking about his vision of an AI
Read moreZuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Meta's machine learning model, Segment Anything, has a sequel: It now takes the model to the video domain, showing how fast the field is moving. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreADT’s new smart security system will unlock your door for a Trusted Neighbor
ADT’s new smart security system is now available nationwide. ADT Plus features new ADT hardware and integrates with Google Nest cameras and video doorbells, and the Yale Assure Lock 2. | Image: ADT ADT’s long-rumored new security system is now live on ADT.com. Featuring entirely new ADT hardware and integrations
Read moreThe question haunting Fisker’s bankruptcy
As failed EV startup Fisker winds its way through bankruptcy, a persistent and tricky question has become a flashpoint of the proceedings: does its lone secured lender Heights Capital Management deserve to be at the front of the line to reap the proceeds of a liquidation? Heights has maintained an
Read moreMaking AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance
So-called “unlearning” techniques are used to make a generative AI model forget specific and undesirable info it picked up from training data, like sensitive private data or copyrighted material. But current unlearning techniques are a double-edged sword: They could make a model like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B
Read moreUber now lets users in India book three trips at once
Uber is now letting riders in India to book up to three rides simultaneously. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreYes, Americans can opt out of airport facial recognition. Here’s how
U.S. airports are rolling out facial recognition to scan travelers' faces before boarding their flights. Americans, at least, can opt out. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBee AI raises $7M for its wearable AI assistant that learns from your conversations
The promise of AI and large language models (LLMs) is the ability to understand increasingly wider amounts of context and make sense of that information easily, so it makes sense that we’re seeing a bunch of companies trying to make wearable hardware so that people can use AI in their
Read moreChris’ Corner: Variables
CSS has a feature called Custom Properties. You know this. html { --brandColor: red; } .card { border-color: var(--brandColor); h2 { color: var(--brandColor); } } People also — somewhat interchangeably — refer to these as CSS variables. Somehow, that doesn’t bother me, even though I tend to be a stickler
Read moreElon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy
Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool / Getty Images X owner Elon Musk shared a deepfake video spoofing a campaign ad for Vice President Kamala Harris. It appears to violate the platform’s own policies against synthetic and manipulated media. The video Musk shared on Friday alters a recent campaign video Harris released,
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