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Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.

Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

The Pan-African venture firm has raised $84 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work."

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

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