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U.S. House passes revised bill to ban TikTok or force saleThe U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this afternoon that would require TikTok-owner ByteDance to sell the popular social media app or see it banned in the United States. Efforts to ban TikTok go back to the Trump Administration, but the issue has been […]

Women in AI: Ewa Luger explores how AI affects culture — and vice versaEwa Luger, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s series on women in AI, is co-director at the Institute of Design Informatics. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.Ewa Luger, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s series on women in AI, is […]

Boston Dynamics unveils a new robot, controversy over MKBHD, and layoffs at TeslaWelcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s weekly news recap. The weather’s getting hotter — but not quite as hot as the generative AI space, which saw a slew of new models released this week, including Meta’s Llama 3. In other AI […]

Notable Capital’s Hans Tung on the state of VC and the upside to down roundsTo some investors, “down round” is a dirty phrase, but not to Notable Capital’s Hans Tung. Hans is a managing partner at Notable Capital, formerly GGV Capital, a venture firm focusing on investments in the U.S., Latin America, Israel, and Europe. […]

Why vector databases are having a moment as the AI hype cycle peaksVector databases are all the rage, judging by the number of startups entering the space and the investors ponying up for a piece of the pie. The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) and the generative AI (GenAI) movement have created fertile ground […]

Women in AI: Allison Cohen on building responsible AI projectsAlison Cohen, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s series on women in AI, is a senior AI projects manager at Mila, a Quebec-based AI research group. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.Alison Cohen, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s series on women in AI, […]

Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US spying law that critics say expands government surveillanceHouse and Senate lawmakers passed a bill reauthorizing the controversial Section 702 powers under FISA, which allows U.S. spy agencies to conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ communications. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.House and Senate lawmakers passed a bill […]

This Week in AI: When ‘open source’ isn’t so openKeeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This […]

India’s election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformationAs India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the electoral landscape is overshadowed by misinformation. The country — which has more than 830 million internet users and is home to the largest user base for social media […]