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General Motors said it plans to launch an automated driving system that will allow drivers to keep their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel in 2028, starting with the Cadillac Escalade IQ. The announcement, made Wednesday at its GM Forward event in New York City, comes a year afterTechCrunch first reportedthat the […]

General Motors will add a conversational AI assistant powered by Google Gemini to its cars, trucks, and SUVs starting next year, the U.S. automaker said Wednesday during an event in New York City.  The Google Gemini rollout is one of several tech-centric announcements made at the automaker’s GM Forward event, and it will be one

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Stanford’s tiny eye chip helps the blind see again A tiny wireless chip placed at the back of the eye, combined with a pair of advanced smart glasses, has partially restored vision to people suffering from an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration. In a clinical study led by Stanford Medicine and international collaborators, 27

As AI companies claim their tech will one daygrow to become a fundamental human right,and those backing them say slowing down AI developmentis akin to murder, the people using the tech are alleging that tools like ChatGPT sometimes can cause serious psychological harm. At least seven people have complained to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission

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Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019. Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog, which looked to provide more modern tools to higher educational facilities, including those that work with state departments. He learned quickly that his peers didn’t like working with the public sector — too much bureaucracy.

AI turns x-rays into time machines for arthritis care A new artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at the University of Surrey can forecast what a patient's knee X-ray might look like one year in the future. This breakthrough could reshape how millions of people living with osteoarthritis understand and manage their condition. The research,

Ask any salesperson how much information they’d like on a prospective customer and you’ll never hear the end of it. That’s the premise driving the crowded sales intelligence market, which today has services that can do everything from helping toidentify prospects and surface backgroundabout them, to even writing the pitch and performing autonomous follow-ups. But

The promise ofvibe codingwas that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems likeLovableandReplit AI. But it turns out writing the code is just the first step in the process — and vibe-coders are already running into the standard headaches of maintaining and updating a software product. Luckily for them,