Designer Kate Barton teams up with IBM and Fiducia AI for a NYFW presentation
Designer Kate Barton teams up with Fiducia AI and IBM for a NYFW presentation.
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India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund
India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.
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My uncanny AI valentines
Phoebe Callas, 30, is not real, but she was an AI companion I went on a speed date with. Hopping over a pile of dirty snow, I arrived on a frigid February evening at a wine bar in midtown, a purple neon sign reading “EVA AI cafe.” Inside, several people were seated at tables and
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Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.
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Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada
Airbnb was poised to introduce an app that doesn’t just search for you, but one that “knows you.” CEO Brian Chesky said, “It will help guests plan their entire trip, help hosts better run their businesses, and help the company operate more efficiently at scale.”
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Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony
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What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
The past few days have been a wild ride for xAI, which is racking up staff and cofounder departure announcements left and right. On Tuesday and Wednesday, cofounder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced his departure and that it was “time for [his] next chapter,” with cofounder Jimmy Ba following with a similar post later that day,
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OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model
The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users’ unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.
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Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10
The numbers suggest that Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials, combined with Anthropic’s recent release of its new Opus 4.6 model, worked to drive attention to Claude’s app and its key differentiator from ChatGPT.
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Ring’s adorable surveillance hellscape
You can watch Ring’s recent Super Bowl ad and see a cute story about dogs being reunited with their families. You can also watch the very same ad and see the seeds being planted for a massively connected, utterly ubiquitous surveillance system that will end the concept of privacy forever. Maybe you can even see
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