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AI

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...

Commerce

Amazon Alexa can now alert you when something new might tempt you to shop | TechCrunch

Amazon continues to experiment with how AI can be used to improve the shopping experience, resulting in Tuesday’s...

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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...

Government & Policy

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’ | TechCrunch

David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy...

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AI

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
AI

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...

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Robotics

The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them | TechCrunch

In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported...

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...

Dario Amodei
In Brief

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft | TechCrunch

Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and...