Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids

Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids

Artificial Intelligence /

As concerns over the emotional pull of general-purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, disseminate false information, and generate responses that demean minorities, according to reporting by Reuters. According to an internal Meta document seen by Reuters, Meta had

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Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever

Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever

Artificial Intelligence /

One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two AI models that are so tiny, they have named them after a chicken’s brain and a fly’s brain. Multiverse Computing claims these are the world’s smallest models that are still high-performing and can handle chat, speech, and even reasoning in one case.  These new tiny

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Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

Artificial Intelligence, Commerce /

Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles competition. Called Flight Deals, the new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheaper fares. Users can

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Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Artificial Intelligence /

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion behind CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI models have fallen

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Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Artificial Intelligence, Startups /

Image Credits:Steve Jennings / Getty Images 7:00 AM PDT · August 14, 2025 There aren’t many founders who can say they’ve steered the same company from scrappy startup to publicly traded platform while keeping their edge — but co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie isn’t most founders. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 , happening October 27–29 at

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Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi

Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation /

I’m riding in the back of a Waymo that’s autonomously navigating the busy streets of San Francisco with relative ease thanks to 29 external cameras, six radar, and five lidar sensors all feeding into an AI model. For just 15 bucks, I get to experience what feels like a miracle of modern technology, and yet

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Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more

Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more

Apps, Artificial Intelligence /

India-based audio series platform maker Pocket FM aims to be the Netflix of audio. That is, the company intends to match its audio series with hundreds of episodes to its users’ tastes. For that to work, it needs to release content rapidly — something it’s now turning to AI to help with. The Lightspeed-backed startup

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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

Artificial Intelligence /

Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop — a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability — in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid

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NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

Artificial Intelligence, Fundraising /

When NeoLogic started building its more energy-efficient CPUs for AI servers, folks in the industry told its founders Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem that their idea wasn’t viable. “Most of the people that we have met say it’s impossible,” Messica told TechCrunch. “Some of them told us, at the time, that the innovation is impossible

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