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Alphabet-owned Intrinsic incorporates Nvidia tech into robotics platform

The first bit of news out of the Automate conference this year arrives by way of Alphabet X spinout Intrinsic. The firm announced at the Chicago event on Monday that it is incorporating a number of N

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models

OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partners

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 o

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe, and why OpenAI is not a competitor

Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo talks about the challenges and opportunities in AI today, how to build and support a developer community, and more.

Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit

Lee, a specialist in early-stage investing, explains how Sequioa approaches identifying product-market fit for its startups through three archetypes.

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board

Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask D

Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Before I jump into the all the news — and boy there was a lot! — I have an importan

Women in AI: Catherine Breslin helps companies develop AI strategies

Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies.

Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency

Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion

The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point

I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turn

Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last (for a wh

Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson

While the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively borin

Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators

Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship.

Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users

Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and

Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space

While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care.

Why RAG won’t solve generative AI’s hallucination problem

RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there's limits to what the technique can do.

This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators

Keeping up with an industry as fast moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable rese

ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund

ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings. However, the firm’s actual fundraise was $5.75 billion, accordin

Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production

Lidar company Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as part of a restructuring that will shift the company to a more “asset-light&#8
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