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Panasonic unveils an AI-powered wellness coach, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, at CES 2025

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At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which offers families a personalized, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi uses the Claude AI model to help families “care, coordinate, and connect” with each other, the company said. More specifically, this involves an AI assistant that focuses on … Read more

How Sonic Network Extension and Token Launch is Set to Transform Blockchain Infrastructure

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Sonic, a blockchain network extension built on Solana, announced today its Token Generation Event (TGE) and upcoming mainnet launch, marking a significant development in blockchain infrastructure. The TGE, scheduled for January 7 at 12:00 PM UTC, will introduce the $SONIC token across major cryptocurrency exchanges. According to technical specifications, the token will operate as an … Read more

Zuckerberg says he’s moving Meta moderators to Texas because California seems too ‘biased’

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re … Read more

AI Tokens Fail to Mirror 2024’s Epic Surge Despite Bullish Nvidia Conference

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Artificial intelligence (AI) crypto tokens are failing to live up to their lofty 2024 goals despite Nvidia’s (NVDA) recent conference sparking bullish sentiment among AI stocks in the traditional markets. Last March, the NEAR token doubled in the lead-up to Nividia’s annual conference, gains that were mirrored across the wider crypto AI market. Fetch.AI (FET), … Read more

HR software startup OnPay was inspired by the founder’s family payroll business

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In 2007, Jesse Burgess joined his family’s payroll business. He quickly noticed that the business’ six payroll clerks were getting bogged down by repetitive, monotonous tasks. So he sought to streamline those tasks by creating workflow automation tools. Several years later, Burgess sensed an opportunity to bring the tools he developed for his family’s business … Read more

Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget: Crypto Exchanges Must Adapt Quickly to Stay Competitive in the Age of AI

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In an exclusive interview, Ishan Pandey sits down with Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on cryptocurrency trading and exchange operations. As the crypto industry continues to evolve, the intersection of AI and digital assets presents both opportunities and challenges. From copy trading innovations to the future of … Read more

At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster

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Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000 … Read more

What the heck happened at fintech Bench?

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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! It’s good to be back.  This week, we’re looking at the wild ride that was Bench’s shutdown and acquisition; dozens of companies that are hiring in the fintech space; lawsuits against PayPal; an IPO update; and more! This edition is a bit longer than normal since we were on a hiatus … Read more

Tesla’s remote parking feature under investigation after over a dozen crashes

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Image: Getty The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature after several crash incidents were reported. NHTSA says it has received reports of 16 incidents involving Tesla’s smart summon feature in 2016-2025 Model S and X vehicles as well as 2017-2025 Model 3s and 2020-2025 Model … Read more

Bitcoin’s Potential ‘Head and Shoulders’ Pattern Points to a Sell-Off to $75K: Godbole

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After rallying over 50% since early November, bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency by market value, looks to be carving out a pattern. If completed, this could see prices revisit the mid-$70Ks. BTC’s price action since late November has evolved into what technical analysts call a “head and shoulders” (H&S) pattern, which foreshadows a bullish-to-bearish trend … Read more

Former Annapurna leads take charge of Take-Two’s discarded indie games

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Annapurna Interactive is known for its quality of indie titles including the cat adventure game Stray. | Image: Annapurna Interactive The games published under Private Division, Take-Two Interactive’s former indie label, are under new management. Bloomberg reports that the former employees of Annapurna Interactive have formed a new, as-yet-unnamed company that will take over Private … Read more

Agora’s Nick van Eck Is All-In on Stablecoins

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Having travelled extensively through many emerging markets, Nick van Eck, the CEO and co-founder of stablecoin issuer Agora, is keenly aware of the problems that currency debasement and a lack of sound financial systems can create for citizens of these countries. With AUSD, Agora’s flagship stablecoin product, van Eck is focused on solving the unique … Read more

Align and monitor your Amazon Bedrock powered insurance assistance chatbot to responsible AI principles with AWS Audit Manager

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Generative AI applications are gaining widespread adoption across various industries, including regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. As these advanced systems accelerate in playing a critical role in decision-making processes and customer interactions, customers should work towards ensuring the reliability, fairness, and compliance of generative AI applications with industry regulations. To address this … Read more