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Maybe a lack of AI characters is what Quibi got wrong. At least, that’s what one startup appears to believe.  My Drama is a new short series app with over 30 shows, with a majority of them following a soap … Continue reading →

A 23-year-old woman who allegedly killed two men in March while using Ford’s hands-free system, BlueCruise, has been charged with DUI homicide by Pennsylvania State Police. The woman, Dimple Patel, turned herself in on Tuesday. Patel was also charged with … Continue reading →

The hiring effort comes after X, formerly known as Twitter, laid off 80% of its trust and safety staff since Musk’s takeover. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This week in AI, two startups developing tools to generate and suggest code — Magic and Codeium — raised nearly half … Continue reading →

The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and former Defense Department technologist Brendan McCord, has announced a venture program and research initiatives to — in the organization’s words — “cultivate a new generation of … Continue reading →

Once linked, parents will be alerted to their teen’s channel activity, including the number of uploads, subscriptions and comments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The exact contents of X’s (now permanent) undertaking with the DPC have not been made public, but it’s assumed the agreement limits how it can use people’s data. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including NFDG (an investment partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST … Continue reading →

Revefi connects to a company’s data stores and databases (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks and so on) and attempts to automatically detect and troubleshoot data-related issues. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

If you build an AI search product, you compete with Google. But Google has a lot easier time answering queries with a single, simple answer, such as “how many is a dozen?” than it does answering complex questions like “what … Continue reading →