TECHNOLOGYTruecaller’s India problem shows the limits of data moats in regulated marketsTruecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.TechCrunch·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYAI press tour derails when virtual persona switches to Chinese mid-interviewIn one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.TechCrunch·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYVenture studio Vantora bets industrial AI needs external buildersUP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.TechCrunch·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYAnthropic’s biology lab tests the limits of its safety rhetoricAI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.TechCrunch·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYInternal docs show OpenAI and Microsoft foresaw AI’s harm to web publishersRecently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor iThe Verge·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYAI hallucination nearly triggered US military strike on ChinaAI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attackArs Technica·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYFAA’s $875 million bet on AI to untangle aviation’s bottleneck problemFAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestionArs Technica·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYSpanberger’s Virginia data center order signals shift from growth-at-any-cost eraVirginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch oThe Verge·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYDisney’s new CTO signals AI is now a boardroom priorityYou would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new CTO. Anand will repoThe Verge·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYFCC clears Gulf sovereign wealth funds to own half of ParamountFCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and QatarArs Technica·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYNeuroscientists identify sleep-triggering neurons as drug targetsFinding the cells that put our brain to sleepArs Technica·3w ago
TECHNOLOGYApple’s variable aperture camera bridges optical and computational photographyIt's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in […]The Verge·3w ago