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Best Mobile Phones 2019
2019 has been an excellent year for smartphones. Actually, there's never been a better time to buy a mobile phone on the market. We’ve studied all the new handsets to round-up a list of the cream of the crop. If you want to buy a new phone, you are in the right place....
Features to Look for in SD-WAN Security Solutions
When looking to upgrade their WAN infrastructure, many organizations are tempted by the benefits provided by software-defined wide area networking, as SD-WAN can help to dramatically decrease the cost of WAN compared to multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). When...
Top Android Spy Apps for Detective Purpose
Spying is a technique or process through which you can watch the activities of your partner, employee or kids secretly. Below we are listed out some of the best spy apps for your Android smartphone that will make you feel like a detective. These apps will convert your...
The Tech Insurers Turn to for Increased Road Safety
Preventing Accidents with Better Vehicle Tech Despite all the chatter about autonomous vehicles, we’re still a long way from letting cars take the wheel. Instead, insurance companies have chosen to rely on supplemental technologies to make driving safer. These tech...
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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! If you haven’t noticed, Uber is suddenly everywhere, at least when it comes...
Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)
Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's table stakes now. What haunts us is the mental image of an agent autonomously approving a...
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense. Industry experts are watching Amazon’s...
Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?
This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley bounced into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward enough — rather than giving engineers only salary, equity, and bonuses, companies would also hand them a budget of AI...
It’s been 20 years since the first tweet
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”. That was, of course, the very first post on the site that is still best known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new owner Elon Musk (the deal is still being fought over in...
Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text. The novel was scheduled to be published in the United States this spring. Hachette said it will also discontinue the...
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty...
Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for his annual GTC keynote on Monday, the $4-trillion-dollar company’s stock started to drop. Wall Street investors, it seems, were unmoved by the leather jacket-clad founder’s bullish 2.5-hour speech. Instead, they placed...
How fusion power works and the startups pursuing it
For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for nearly as long, achieving that goal always seemed just a decade away. Now, a slew of startups are closer than ever before and rushing to build fusion...
New court filing reveals Pentagon told Anthropic the two sides were nearly aligned — a week after Trump declared the relationship kaput
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon, pushing back on the Pentagon’s assertion that the AI company poses an “unacceptable risk to national security” and arguing that the government’s case relies on technical...
Elon Musk misled Twitter investors while trying to get out of acquisition, jury says
A civil jury in California on Friday ruled that Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter investors when he tried to back out of his $44 billion acquisition of the platform in 2022. At the time, Musk had tweeted that Twitter had too many bots, which is why he later tried...
Microsoft rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
Microsoft announced on Friday a series of changes focused on improving the quality of its Windows 11 operating system, which notably includes dialing back the number of entry points to its AI assistant, Copilot. The company said it will reduce Copilot AI integrations...