Monthly Archives: June 2024

C12, the French quantum computing startup founded by two twin brothers, raises $19.4 million

C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Physics Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure, the company has been working on … Continue reading

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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company

Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, launches Safe Superintelligence (SSI), just a month after leaving OpenAI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced

Adobe has issued new wording to explain how users’ content will be treated, after a backlash earlier this month from artists who believed their work will be used to train AI.

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Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund

Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek at an internal SpaceX document about such a tender offer from May … Continue reading

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This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journals

Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on the disinformation front. In a post on Retraction Watch, a blog that … Continue reading

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AMD suffers huge alleged data hack

Chipmaking company AMD  has allegedly suffered a massive data hack, which could include sensitive employee and customer data. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is currently working with law enforcement to investigate claims of a huge data breach. by hacking group IntelBroker. … Continue reading

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Possible Reasons for Crypto Market Drop Could Lead to a Bullish Breakout for This Token

The crypto market has experienced a significant drop in the past 24 to 48 hours, yet PlayDoge remains bullish as investors rally to its presale, which has now reached nearly $5 million. This article will examine three potential reasons for … Continue reading

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How to solve the Chamber of Justice puzzle BG3 – complete walkthrough

One puzzle that is still, er, puzzling Baldur’s Gate 3 players seems to be the Chamber of Justice puzzle. Here, you get the chance to be pretty much the judge, jury, and executioner but if you get it wrong, then … Continue reading

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Call of Duty’s Fallout crossover goes live on June 20; here’s everything in it

News that Call of Duty’s next crossover collaboration would be with Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout franchise leaked by datamine about three weeks ago. Now it’s official, and a blog post Tuesday from Infinity Ward has more on what that looks like … Continue reading

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Apple halts work on Vision Pro, turns focus to releasing a cheaper Vision headset next year

Apple is reportedly stopping work on its next Vision Pro headset as analysts and supply chain partners have flagged slowing sales of the current device. According to The Information, the technology giant is halting plans for the second-generation high-end model … Continue reading

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