Month: September 2024
Nomi AI wants to make the most emotionally intelligent chatbots on the market
As OpenAI boasts about its o1 model’s increased thoughtfulness, a small, self-funded startup Nomi AI is building the same kind of technology. Unlike the broad generalist ChatGPT, which slows down to think through anything from math problems or historical research, Nomi niches down on a specific use-case: AI companions. Now, Nomi’s already-sophisticated chatbots take additional … Read more
Ford’s BlueCruise 1.4 update lets you keep your hands off the wheel much longer
Image: Umar Shakir / The Verge Ford is releasing a new version of its BlueCruise hands-free driving software, version 1.4, which it claims will let you keep your hands off the wheel twice as long. In fact, the company tells us it can now run an average of five times longer compared to last year’s … Read more
AVAX price rallies after Avalanche development incentive and mainnet upgrade announcement
A $40 million developer incentive and upcoming mainnet upgrade translated to price upside for AVAX.
Mark Cuban says he wants Gary Gensler’s job as head of the SEC
The crypto-friendly billionaire appears to be throwing his full support behind US presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
The Frameworks Dilemma
As a developer, frameworks are usually the first thing you grab when you want to speed things up and keep things reliable. People often talk about frameworks like they’re the perfect solution that can fix all your problems, making development faster, easier, and more efficient. However, if you’ve had some experience under your belt, you … Read more
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GenAI for Aerospace: Empowering the workforce with expert knowledge on Amazon Q and Amazon Bedrock
Aerospace companies face a generational workforce challenge today. With the strong post-COVID recovery, manufacturers are committing to record production rates, requiring the sharing of highly specialized domain knowledge across more workers. At the same time, maintaining the headcount and experience level of the workforce is increasingly challenging, as a generation of subject matter experts (SMEs) … Read more
Scalable training platform with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod for innovation: a video generation case study
Video generation has become the latest frontier in AI research, following the success of text-to-image models. Luma AI’s recently launched Dream Machine represents a significant advancement in this field. This text-to-video API generates high-quality, realistic videos quickly from text and images. Trained on the Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, Dream Machine excels in creating consistent characters, smooth … Read more
CryptoPunks Keep Hold on Luxury World as Other Degen Brands Fade
Pieces from a new CryptoPunk-inspired hoodie collection by tech-focused luxury brand mmERCH, created in collaboration with Swarovski, went up for auction at Christie’s this week.
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Nvidia’s RTX 5090 will reportedly include 32GB of VRAM and hefty power requirements
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia is reportedly planning to ship its upcoming GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card with 32GB of GDDR7 memory. Hardware leaker Kopite7kimi has published rumored specifications for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 today, and both cards will reportedly be more power-hungry as Nvidia looks to debut more capable … Read more
Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes Rates His Market Prediction Accuracy as ‘Pretty Shit’
But the kicker, he wrote in his new essay, is that he’s remained profitable by leveraging long term macroeconomic trends.
Zap Energy investors in recent $130M round included Soros Fund and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective
The company recently closed a $130 million round, according to an SEC filing, bringing the total to $327 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Twitch’s BibleThump will soon go to emote heaven
Image: Edmund McMillen; The Verge Pretty soon, Twitch users will no longer be able to express their sadness with the BibleThump emote. According to Twitch, on September 30th, its rights to display the popular crying pink blob will expire after over a decade of being one of the foundational Twitch emotes along with Kappa, FrankerZ, … Read more
‘Hamster Kombat’ Players Gripe as Telegram Game Airdrop Delivers ‘Dust’
Following Hamster Kombat’s airdrop, some users of the viral Telegram game felt their time spent as in-game CEOs wasn’t adequately rewarded.
Uber snags another robotaxi deal, aviation startups land VC bucks, and where Rivian Foundation money is going
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I’ve been thinking a bit about time — and specifically what trends, music, cultural practices, and even ways we move around that encapsulate a season or particular … Read more
An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless
Image: Michael Straight via Facebook Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue, as reported earlier by the Paulick Report and 404 Media. “I called [the company] thinking it was no big … Read more
A deepfake caller pretending to be a Ukrainian official almost tricked a US Senator
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee took a Zoom call with someone using deepfake technology to pose as a top Ukrainian official, the New York Times reports. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) received an email last Thursday that appeared to be from Dmytro … Read more
Wall Street’s Guggenheim Treasury tokenizes $20M paper on Ethereum
According to Guggenheim Treasury Services, the product is the first digital version of commercial paper on the Ethereum network.
Google’s new Nest Learning Thermostat is discounted for the first time
Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge The recently launched Google Nest Learning Thermostat has its first notable discount, as Wellbots is offering it in all three color options for $259.99 ($20 off) with checkout code NLT4VERGE. Google took nearly nine years to replace the last model with this sleeker, Pixel Watch-looking design, but you … Read more
DePIN: Reshaping the Internet and Empowering Users
Brian Trunzo, Global Head of Business Development at Polygon Labs, argues that DePINs represent an opportunity to build new useful services, while redistributing control and value to end-users.
Control data access to Amazon S3 from Amazon SageMaker Studio with Amazon S3 Access Grants
Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a single web-based visual interface where different personas like data scientists, machine learning (ML) engineers, and developers can build, train, debug, deploy, and monitor their ML models. These personas rely on access to data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for tasks such as extracting data for model training, logging … Read more
Mark Cuban Isn’t Playing: He Really Wants to Chair SEC in Harris Admin
Billionaire Mark Cuban told Decrypt that he actually would be open to replacing Gary Gensler should Harris win the presidential election.