Follow the space industry long enough and you’ll notice that an outsized number of the problems that cause catastrophic failures of satellites or launch vehicles can be traced to a physically small but ubiquitous part: valves. Valves play a critical role in the spacecraft’s architecture, […]
Day: January 12, 2024
Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details
Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed. A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December […]
Engadget Podcast: AI steals the show at CES 2024
Just as we expected, AI was the running theme throughout CES 2024. In this episode, Devindra and Producer Ben Ellman chat with co-host Cherlynn Low, who’s on the ground in Las Vegas with the Engadget team. We dive into AI coming to almost every product […]
TuSimple’s self-driving trucks up for auction following U.S. exit
Ten of TuSimple’s autonomous big rigs are set to be auctioned off later this month, just a few weeks after the self-driving trucking startup that went public in 2021 announced it was exiting the U.S. market. The trucks, along with a slew of research and […]
New, tried-and-true ways to network at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024
Heads-up, startup dreamers and change makers! TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 is where you’ll learn the next steps and make the connections you need to turn your idea into a viable business — or take your young startup to the next level. Be in the room […]
The FDA has reportedly approved an AI product that predicts cognitive decline
The US government has reportedly approved AI-based memory loss prediction software for the first time. Darmiyan, a San Francisco-based brain imaging analytics company, says the FDA has granted De Novo approval for its product BrainSee. The software platform assigns “an objective score that predicts the […]
The best laptops of CES 2024
CES 2024 in Las Vegas had all kinds of tech, from attention-grabbing AI gadgets to, uh, whatever this is. There were also a whole bunch of laptops. Like, an endless array of laptops. So many laptops, in fact, that we had a real tough time […]
OpenAI reveals how many ChatGPT for Enterprise customers it has (so far…)
That’s despite the fact some businesses have expressed concerns about using and deploying AI models due to hallucinations, regulatory issues.
OpenAI changes policy to allow military applications
In an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI has opened the door to military applications of its technologies. While the policy previously prohibited use of its products for the purposes of “military and warfare,” but that language has now disappeared, and OpenAI did not […]
New study from Anthropic exposes deceptive ‘sleeper agents’ lurking in AI’s core
New study from Anthropic reveals techniques for training deceptive “sleeper agent” AI models that conceal harmful behaviors and dupe current safety checks meant to instill trustworthiness.