OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to...
Meet the Magnificent Six: A tour of the stages at Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt has always been the ultimate convergence point for all things startup and tech. In the bustling world of innovation, it serves as...
Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution
At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company made its case to developers — and to some extent, consumers — why its bets on AI...
AI-powered regtech Cube acquires global regulatory intelligence enterprises from Thomson Reuters
Acquisition Announcement:Cube, a UK-based regtech firm, has acquired the Regulatory Intelligence and Oden products and businesses of Thomson Reuters.
Terms of the...
Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product
Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo recently...
Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June
On Tuesday, Google announced a number of new additions to Gemma, its family of open (but not open source) models comparable to Meta’s Llama...
Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding.More than two-thirds of the U.S....
Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, SoftBank ‘not in’ but DST is
Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source large language models — the building block for generative AI services — has been raising...
Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused...
