Ford Tried to Fix Its Quality Problems With AI. It Didn’t Work. So They Brought Back a Squad of Human ‘Gray Beards.’
The automaker leaned on AI to solve its quality woes and got worse results. So it rehired 350 veteran engineers.
The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading…
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This Startup Is Challenging Waymo and Tesla With Its ‘Off-the-Shelf’ Self-Driving Technology
While Tesla and Waymo are building self-driving cars for themselves, Wayve wants to sell its AI to everyone else.
These 3 Innovative Ideas Seemed Like the Future for Restaurant Franchises — Here’s Why They All Failed
Dynamic pricing, restaurant subscriptions and hot food vending machines had promise a year ago but went south.
Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure test,” he told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “People say […]
Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices
Pocket sells a $129, credit card-shaped puck, which sticks to the back of your phone, and promises unlimited recordings, transcriptions and to-do items.
Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity
Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar will retail for $249.
Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.
The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. Like a lot of people bitten…
California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1
Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
“Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence … that would produce a high-quality product.”