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Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out
British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.
Online bettors mint money on Elon Musk's misses
There’s a popular saying among fans of tech billionaire Elon Musk: Never bet against him ...
This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine
The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls "the muscle on the ground.”
ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.
Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it
Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat.
Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI
Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer stances against generative AI.
The era of agentic AI demands a data constitution, not better prompts
The industry consensus is that 2026 will be the year of "agentic AI." We are rapidly moving past chatbots that simply summarize text. We are entering the era of autonomous agents that execute tasks. We expect them to book flights, diagnose system outages, manage cloud infrastructure and personalize media streams in real-time.As a technology executive overseeing platforms that serve 30 million concurrent users during massive global events like the Olympics and the Super Bowl, I have see
TNW Weekly Briefing
1. EU launches “EU Inc” at Davos What: The European Commission unveiled EU Inc (“28th regime”), a single EU-wide legal company structure designed to let startups incorporate once and operate across all member states. Who it affects: European startups & scale-ups, founders, VCs, international investors. How: Reduces legal fragmentation, standardises corporate and investment structures, lowers friction for cross-border scaling. Impact timing: Strategic impact now (capital & expectations),
Conversational AI doesn’t understand users — 'Intent First' architecture does
The modern customer has just one need that matters: Getting the thing they want when they want it. The old standard RAG model embed+retrieve+LLM misunderstands intent, overloads context and misses freshness, repeatedly sending customers down the wrong paths. Instead, intent-first architecture uses a lightweight language model to parse the query for intent and context, before delivering to the most relevant content sources (documents, APIs, people).Enterprise AI is a speeding train headed for a c
TechCrunch Mobility: RIP, Tesla Autopilot, and the NTSB investigates Waymo
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February
We’re about to get our first real look at the results of the recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Google.
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo’s sweeping layoffs
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
Google says it’s fixed Gmail issues with spam and misclassification
If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone.
Elon Musk Says Tesla Could Start Selling Humanoid Robots Next Year, Gene Munster Calls It A 'Slight Positive' For This Reason
On Thursday, Elon Musk gave wide-ranging remarks that included new timelines for Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) humanoid robot and ...
Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification
If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone.
Elon Musk Makes Joke About Trump's Board of Peace, Prompting Confused Silence from Audience
Musk joked at the World Economic Forum about whether Trump wanted "peace" or a "piece" — as in a piece of other nations ...
Elon Musk Says FSD's $99/Month Subscription Fee Will Rise As Tesla Scraps Autopilot In US: 'You Can Be On Your Phone…'
CEO Elon Musk has shared that the company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system will record a price hike as technology gets better ...
Elon Musk says subscription prices for full self-driving mode will go up, as Tesla kills Autopilot
Musk said the subscription price, currently $99, will rise as the FSD's capabilities improve over time.
Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos
There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference.
Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app
Sparkli said that education systems often fall behind in teaching modern concepts. The company wants to teach kids about topics like skills design, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship by creating an AI-powered learning "expedition."