Illustration: The Verge As people try to find more uses for generative AI that are less about making a fake photo and are instead actually useful, Google plans to point AI to cybersecurity and make threat reports easier to read. In a blog post, Google […]
Month: May 2024
‘Apple Pencil Pro’ spotted in code on Apple’s Japanese site
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Code on Apple’s website in Japan mentions the “Apple Pencil Pro” — a potential hint at what’s to come during the company’s iPad event on Tuesday, as spotted by X user @ribu_ap712 and reported by MacRumors. The code, […]
What to expect at Google I/O 2024: Gemini, Android 15 and more
It’s almost that time again, folks: we’re about to find out about some of Google’s big ideas for the year ahead at its I/O developer conference. Most of the big news will come from the opening keynote on May 14, which will almost certainly give […]
Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge — and opportunity
With U.S. regulators continuing to ramp up scrutiny, crypto startups and founders are looking to Hong Kong to support their growth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Nvidia’s DrEureka outperforms humans in training robotics systems
DrEureka takes a robotic task description and uses an LLM to generate software implementations for a reward function that measures success in that task.
More Tesla employees laid off as bloodbath enters its fourth week
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla’s brutal round of layoffs entered its fourth week, with more employees posting on LinkedIn and elsewhere about receiving notice that their time at the company has come to an end. The most recent layoffs, which were first […]
Wayve raises $1B to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers
Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the U.K.’s largest AI fundraise ever and sits among the top 20 AI fundraises globally to date. […]
Meet the judges of the 2024 GamesBeat Visionary Awards
We are announcing our 7th GamesBeat Visionary Awards and the team of judges we’ve selected to help pick the winners of this year’s awards.
The best air purifier for 2024
Most of us spend a lot of our lives indoors — reports say that people in the US, the UK and Canada are inside about 90 percent of the time. Those same reports also note indoor air can be far more polluted than outdoor air, […]
Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins
President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical objects and systems. For example, auto manufacturers are looking to use digital twins of their factories to […]