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Googles Gemini has beaten Pokmon Blue (with a little help)

Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar...

AI chatbots are juicing engagement instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up questions, instead of...

OpenAI pledges to make changes to prevent future ChatGPT sycophancy

OpenAI says it’ll make changes to the way it updates the AI models that power ChatGPT, following an incident that caused the platform...

Amazon CEO says 100,000 users now have Alexa+

Amazon’s upgraded digital assistant powered by generative AI, Alexa+, has rolled out to over 100,000 users, CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s...

Nvidia takes aim at Anthropics support of chip export controls

Nvidia clearly doesn’t agree with Anthropic’s support for export controls on U.S.-made AI chips. On Wednesday, Anthropic doubled down on its support...

WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion users a month

WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company’s Q1 results conference...

Amazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yet

Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier. Nova...

Side Event submission deadline extended for TechCrunch Sessions: AI

Did you miss your chance to apply for a Side Event at “TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week?” Don’t worry – we’ve extended the deadline...

Heres how to watch LlamaCon, Metas first AI developer event

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and...

Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100

Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that...

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