VCs are still pouring billions into generative AI startups
But the fate of many generative AI businesses — even the best-funded ones — looks murky. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreChrome adds new warnings and cloud scanning for suspicious downloads
Image: Google Google has updated the suspicious file warnings Chrome displays for why it might have blocked a potentially suspicious or dangerous file download to hopefully give users clearer explanations. For people who turn on the anti-phishing Enhanced Protection feature, opting in to upload suspicious files for scanning in the
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: A UK school was reprimanded for unlawful use of facial recognition technology
Today’s story takes us to a high school on the outskirts of Essex, which has ended up on the wrong side of the UK’s GDPR laws. This may alarm you if you used to carry lunch money to school, but kids these days can do biometric facial scans to pay
Read moreColin Kaepernick lost control of his story. Now, he wants to help creators own theirs
Thousands of stories have been written about former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick. If anyone knows a thing or two about losing control of your own narrative, it’s him. Now, Kaepernick is launching an AI storytelling platform, Lumi, to help creators tell and own their stories. If
Read moreCrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also
Read moreTikTok Lite exposes users to harmful content, say Mozilla researchers
TikTok Lite, a low-bandwidth version of the video platform popular across Africa, Asia and Latin America, is exposing users to harmful content because of its lack of safety features compared to the flagship version of the app, according to a new report from Mozilla. The researchers said that TikTok Lite
Read more‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail
If the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and dumber until they collapse. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreDevelopers want more, more, more: the 2024 results from Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey
This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs.
Read moreMicropep taps tiny proteins to make pesticides safer
Farmers have got to do something about pests. But nobody really likes the idea of using more chemical pesticides. Thomas Laurent’s company, Micropep, thinks the answer might already be in the plants themselves. Micropep is exploring how naturally occurring compounds, known as micropeptides, might work as an entirely new class
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