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‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunch

Users of OpenAI’s software engineering tool Codex might know Thibault Sottiaux as the guy who resets their token...

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Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen | TechCrunch

Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade...

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AI

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok | TechCrunch

The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel...

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Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M | TechCrunch

Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
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Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout | TechCrunch

Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s...

Elon Musk
AI

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem | TechCrunch

Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture...

Caterpillar lidar ces 2023
AI

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining | TechCrunch

Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate...

AI

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU | TechCrunch

Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of...

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AI

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI | TechCrunch

Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now,...

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AI

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets | TechCrunch

Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of...