If you check popular benchmarks used for measuring LLM performance, then you probably feel like AI is oh sooo clever. This is a fair surface-level impression; however, is AI truly better than an average human for cognitive tasks? Frontier models like o1 from OpenAI and Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic do perform better than expert … Read more
Hardware is hard. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple’s journey to making its own wireless chips has been a long one, but the end might be in sight. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo posted on X that Apple’s switch to its own in-house Wi-Fi / Bluetooth chips will start with the iPhone 17 in the … Read more
Gold and silver are halfway into a “decade-long bull market,” and Bitcoin is one narrative catalyst away from rallying to $100,000, according to 1971 Capital CIO Brian Russ.
Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is a wrap, and I’m more than thrilled by the amazing space industry programming we had on offer this year. We covered everything from building a dual-use business to orbital re-entry, we caught up with Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck, and heard about the ground station … Read more
The assets dropped with U.S. equities on Thursday.
The Quick Insert button is on the Galaxy Chromebook Plus and is coming to future 2025 Chromebooks. | Image: Google Starting today, Google’s ChromeOS 130 update with Quick Insert, Focus Mode, Welcome Recap, and other features is rolling out. Chromebook Plus models with NPU also get exclusive special features in 130, such as the new … Read more
Victims of ‘Hong Kong’s FTX’ take aim at $29M seized by police, central bankers bash stablecoins, crypto scammers busted over luxury condo.
In previous articles, I’ve mentioned my short career in the music industry. Let me tell a quick story about something really cool that happened while playing keyboards on a new artist project in 1986. Emerging from the solo section of the first song on the album, sound engineer Alan Johnson had a cool idea that would catch … Read more
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Nvidia made a fortune on the AI boom. AMD’s rival AI chip became the fastest ramping product in its history, already pulling in $1 billion per quarter and inspiring AMD to remake itself as an AI company too. But Intel, which suggested it would pull in $1 billion, even $2 billion on the back of … Read more
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon’s reinvention of its Alexa voice assistant has reportedly fallen even further behind. According to Bloomberg, the launch of a new Alexa — billed as a smarter, more capable AI-powered voice assistant — has been pushed back. Again. “A person familiar with … Read more
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy today hinted at an improved, “agentic” version of the company’s Alexa assistant — one that could take actions on a user’s behalf. “I think that the next generation of these assistants and generative AI applications will be better at not just answering questions and summarizing, indexing, and aggregating data, but also … Read more
Current Know Your Customer verification procedures are often cumbersome, costly, and time-consuming for industry service providers.
Whenever I hear about a contribution to an open-source project, I always think it’s a big deal. Earlier this year, I wanted to contribute to an open-source project, but I couldn’t because I didn’t know how to use my skills to contribute. I reached out to a senior developer for guidance, but I received a … Read more
Analysts at the top bank think traders are feeling uncertain about the market—and this could further benefit Bitcoin.
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America’s supply chain vulnerabilities were on full display Thursday after drone manufacturer Skydio told customers it was facing a battery squeeze after being hit with sanctions from China. “This is an attempt to eliminate the leading American drone company and deepen the world’s dependence on Chinese drone suppliers,” Skydio CEO Adam Bry said in a … Read more
Decart, an Israeli AI company that emerged from stealth today with $21 million in funding from Sequoia and Oren Zeev, has released what it’s claiming is the first playable “open-world” AI model. Called Oasis, the model, which is available for download, powers a demo on Decart’s site: a Minecraft-like game that’s generated on the fly, … Read more
It’s the second bet on Web3 gaming by VanEck’s liquid token strategy fund.
The AI powerhouse integrates real-time web search into its chatbot. We reviewed it against Google and Perplexity.
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Like OpenSea, Uniswap, and other crypto firms, Immutable says it is the target of SEC scrutiny—describing the notice as an “overreach.”
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge To cap off a busy week that saw the rollout of the first Apple Intelligence features and several new Macs, Apple reported its fiscal Q4 earnings this afternoon. The period included very early sales of the iPhone 16 lineup, offering a chance to gauge the momentum of … Read more
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