The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
After Apple discontinued its Music Memos app favored by musicians for developing song ideas, a new startup called Tape It stepped in to fill the void with an app that leveraged AI to automatically detect the instrument and annotate the recording. Now that startup is taking the next step in its journey to improve the […]
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta’s Quest 3 has now been available for over a week, and the reviews have largely praised the updated consumer mixed reality headset. In my own first impressions, I shared how it managed to convince me to give the category a second look – many years after I’d all but given up on VR as […]
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The International Criminal Court, the world’s only permanent international court with a mandate to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, has determined that a September cyberattack against its systems was attempted espionage. The court, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, confirmed last month that hackers had infiltrated its network. In an update posted […]
© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.