NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B
World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei Fei Li, has raised two rounds of financing two months apart, according to multiple reports. The latest financing was led by NEA and valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned from several people with
Read MoreStudy suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch
The research suggest that models aren't hallucinating much less, despite claims to the contrary from OpenAI, Anthropic and the other big AI players. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreDev Hackathon: Reusable Creativity on Wix Studio
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Read MoreFTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Wednesday a final rule that will tackle several types of fake reviews and prohibit marketers from using deceptive practices, such as AI-generated reviews, censoring honest negative reviews, and compensating third parties for positive reviews. The decision was the result of a 5-to-0
Read MoreHigh-end racing bikes are now vulnerable to hacking
Photo by Alex Broadway / Getty Images A team of computer scientists found that wireless gear-shifting systems in high-end bikes are vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks that could undermine popular races like the Tour de France. Wireless gear-shift systems are meant to give riders better control of their bikes, according to
Read MoreThe weirdest ‘3 billion people’ data breach ever
Illustration: Beatrice Sala National Public Data, a company that collects personal data to resell and process background checks, is the target of a proposed class action lawsuit alleging it is the source of a massive data leak that includes information like Social Security numbers and more on reportedly “3 billion
Read MorePalo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads
Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is getting a lot of grief for a recent trade show event in which two women posed with lampshades on their heads. The debacle — which unflatteringly recalls the CES booth babes of the early ’90s and 2000s — reportedly happened at a happy hour
Read MoreThis Week in AI: AI isn’t world-ending — but it’s still plenty harmful
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, a new study shows that generative AI really isn’t all that harmful — at least not in the apocalyptic sense. In a paper submitted to the Association for Computational Linguistics’ annual conference, researchers from the University of Bath
Read MoreCamera app Halide’s latest update adds an option for ‘zero-AI’ image processing
Popular iOS pro photography app Halide launched its new version today with a new feature called Process Zero, which does not use AI in image processing. Lux Optics, the company behind the Halide app, believes that this option can be a creative tool for photographers to take different kinds of
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