Tag: AI
First impressions of Alexa+, Amazon’s upgraded, AI-powered digital assistant | TechCrunch
I owned a lot of Alexa-powered devices in my former home: There were Amazon Echos in most rooms, including an older Echo Plus in...
OpenAI is practically giving ChatGPT to the government for free | TechCrunch
OpenAI is poised to undercut rivals like Anthropic and Google in the race to see its AI tools integrated into federal agency workflows.
The AI...
Microsoft brings OpenAI’s smallest open model to Windows users | TechCrunch
Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform...
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices...
Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door | TechCrunch
Cognition, the AI coding startup that acquired rival company Windsurf three weeks ago, laid off 30 employees last week and is offering buyouts to...
Perplexity is allegedly scraping websites it’s not supposed to, again
Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that...
Google says its AI-based bug hunter found 20 security vulnerabilities | TechCrunch
Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities.
Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based...
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping | TechCrunch
AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure...
OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users | TechCrunch
ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the...
Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s AI company has officially rolled out Grok Imagine, xAI’s image and video generator, to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on its...