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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he’s joining Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, and former head of Tesla's AI division, announced on Tuesday, May 19 that he's joining rival lab Anthropic.As Karpathy posted from his account...
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Andrej Karpathy, the AI researcher who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI and previously led AI at Tesla, has joined Anthropic. “I’ve joined Anthropic,” Karpathy posted on X Tuesday. “I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially...
The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling
If you were looking for a sign to try out a “dumb phone,” here it is: the trendy, minimalist Light Phone is joining forces with Noble Mobile, a phone network founded by entrepreneur and politician Andrew Yang that gives you money back if you use less data. On Tuesday,...
Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack
Hackers have compromised several popular open source projects relied on by software developers all over the world in an ongoing cyberattack. On Tuesday, cybersecurity firms StepSecurity and SafeDep warned of the latest wave of so-called “supply chain” attacks, which...
US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA may have escaped a sizable security breach, thanks to a good-faith security researcher who identified publicly exposed credentials that allowed access to government cloud and internal agency systems. As first reported by independent...
Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates
Ahead of Google’s annual developer conference on Tuesday, Apple announced several new accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence to features like VoiceOver, voice control, live recognition, and real-time caption generation for videos. The company also said...
Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment
Like many young people of her generation, Fai Nur was what she called a “chronically online teenager.” She obsessed over music groups, TV shows, and movies, and never missed the chance to talk about her interests endlessly online. When ChatGPT launched in 2022, she...
‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu introduce a goal-tracking app, Paprclip
On Survivor 48, Kyle Fraser’s alliance with castmate Kamilla Karthigesu helped drive him to victory. Now, the pair is teaming up in a new space, hoping for a similar outcome: they’re starting a business together. On Tuesday, the new co-founders are introducing...
Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had
Oskar Block has never been able to stay away from entrepreneurship for long. He was just 18 when he launched his first startup, building machine learning models for sports betting. “I’ve always been drawn to solving difficult data problems,” he told TechCrunch. He...
Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app
Google on Thursday added new features to its video editor app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support, the ability to export videos to YouTube, and recording with a Chrome extension. Users will be able to use natural...
ICE says it bought Paragon’s spyware to use in drug trafficking cases
The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that it has bought and used spyware made by Paragon Solutions in drug trafficking cases, according to a letter seen by TechCrunch. ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons wrote in the letter to three...
United’s mobile app now shows TSA wait times at select airports
United Airlines is updating its iOS and Android mobile apps with several new features, including estimated security wait times to give travelers a better idea of when they should arrive at the airport. The move comes as the ongoing partial government shutdown has left...
Tesla’s cheaper vehicles aren’t helping its declining sales
Tesla spent more than a year touting that “more affordable” cars were on the way, and they finally arrived last October, with stripped-down versions of the Model Y and Model 3 starting at $39,990 and $36,990, respectively. But the new vehicles are not moving the...
Diverse teams start with diverse VCs
Startups are often quick to say they value diversity but are slow to implement hiring practices that reflect that. It is the path of least resistance for a growth-stage company to hire from the familiar Silicon Valley pipelines, but if a founder wants a diverse team,...
Exclusive: Beehiiv expands into podcasting, taking aim at Patreon
Newsletter platform Beehiiv is introducing native podcast hosting, the company told TechCrunch. With this move, creators can now host, distribute, and monetize their podcast directly on Beehiiv. Users will be able to publish an episode, share it with subscribers, and...
Cash App launches ‘pay later’ feature for P2P pay transfers
Cash App, the peer-to-peer fintech app owned by Jack Dorsey’s Block, has launched a new “pay-over-time” deferred payment feature that allows eligible users to pay for their everyday transfers over an extended period of time. Companies have increasingly offered...
Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google
Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator — marking the most concrete evidence yet that the $3 trillion...
De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack
Decentralized finance company Drift says it has suspended withdrawals and deposits after confirming a security incident. The crypto platform said in a post on X that it was “experiencing an active attack,” and that it was working to “contain the incident.” Security...
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies of its most popular product’s source code off the internet. On Tuesday, a software engineer discovered that Anthropic had, seemingly by accident,...
Intuit’s AI agents hit 85% repeat usage. The secret was keeping humans involved
When Intuit shipped AI agents to 3 million customers, 85% came back. The reason, according to the company's EVP and GM: combining AI with human expertise turned out to matter more than anyone expected — not less.Marianna Tessel, the financial software company’s EVP...
The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse
The controversy surrounding compliance startup Delve has gone from bad to worse this week. Among the fresh allegations from the anonymous whistleblower known as DeepDelver is the claim that Delve allegedly took an open source tool and passed it off as its own work...
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