Latest News

A growing number of people areasking OpenAI’s ChatGPTand other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights. KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for$50 million, says he has been thinking about the inefficiencies of the U.S. healthcare system ever since […]

Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman haveannouncedthe launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The duo are developing an “intelligent family care system” that will start with an app experience and then expand into hardware devices. Luffu uses AI in the background to gather

Peak XV Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and Southeast Asia, has seen a fresh round of senior departures. These follow other leadership exits over the past year as it pushes ahead with plans to deepen its focus on AI investing and expand its footprint in the U.S., while keeping India as its

SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company, the spaceflight company announced Monday. Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, wrote in amemoposted to the rocket company’s website that the merger is largely about creating space-based data centers — an idea he has become fixated on

Cloud data company Snowflake has entered into a$200 million multi-year AI dealwith OpenAI on Monday, the latest signal that enterprise AI competition continues to heat up. Under the deal, Snowflake’s 12,600 customers will have access to OpenAI models across all three major cloud providers. Snowflake employees access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise as well. The two

Firefox will begin catering to those who don’t want AI in their browser. On Monday, Mozillaannouncedthat Firefox will soon let users block all current and future generative AI features. Users will also have the option to block certain AI features in Firefox, while keeping others. Starting with Firefox 148, which is rolling out on February

AI is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. But as developers experiment with new interfaces and form factors for human-AI collaboration, it’s become hard for even the most advanced AI labs to keep up.  The

Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which leverages the company’s network of cameras to find lost dogs, is nowavailable to allRing customers in the U.S. For the first time, the feature will be made available to those who don’t own a Ring camera, too. Launched last fall, Search Party uses AI to findpossible matchesfor lost dogs

A coalition of nonprofits is urging the U.S. government to immediately suspend the deployment of Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, in federal agencies including the Department of Defense.  The open letter, shared exclusively with TechCrunch, follows a slew of concerning behavior from the large language model over the past year, including most

What is and isn’t a weed that needs to be eliminated in the field is determined by the eyes of the farmer — and now, increasingly, by a new AI model from Carbon Robotics. Seattle-basedCarbon Robotics, which builds the LaserWeeder — a robot fleet that uses lasers to kill weeds — announced a new AI