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Google DeepMind has launched a watermarking tool for AI-generated images

August 29, 2023
Google DeepMind has launched a new watermarking tool that labels whether images have been generated with AI. The tool, called SynthID, will initially be available only to users of Google’s AI image generator Imagen, which is hosted on Google Cloud’s machine learning platform Vertex. Users will be able to generate images using Imagen and then…

Amazon acquires Fig, a startup building autocomplete for the command line

August 29, 2023
Amazon has acquired Fig, a Y Combinator (YC) alum that has been setting out to turbo-charge the command line terminal. In a blog post published yesterday, CEO and cofounder Brendan Falk said that Amazon was acquiring Fig’s technology, while its employees — including two cofounders — would be joining Amazon’s cloud subsidiary AWS. Terms of […]

Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT

August 28, 2023
From its prominence in the tech world, you might think that everyone on the planet is using ChatGPT or some other AI tool for everything from automating their job to planning their garden. But recent Pew polling suggests the language model isn’t quite as popular or threatening as some would have you think. Ongoing polling […]

Free dating app Cosmic uses personality quizzes to make a profile for you

August 28, 2023
A new dating app called Cosmic wants to shake up the market by not charging for basic features like seeing who likes you or undoing your last swipe, while also making it easier for users to build profiles that better reflect their personalities using a combination of personality quizzes and machine learning technology. Now available […]

We don’t have to reinvent the wheel to regulate AI responsibly

August 28, 2023
Daniel Marcous Contributor Share on Twitter Daniel Marcous is the co-founder and CTO of april, an AI-driven tax platform. Daniel was previously the CTO of AI-driven navigation platform Waze, which was acquired by Google in 2013. We are living through one of the most transformative tech revolutions of the past century. For the first time […]

10 years at TechCrunch

August 28, 2023
It’s been 10 years since I stepped off a ledge and landed at TechCrunch. I don’t get self referential a lot here on the pages of TC, but I figured that a tin anniversary is a nice time to look at what we’ve done over the past decade as we approach this year’s Disrupt, coming […]

DoorDash launches AI-powered voice ordering technology for restaurants

August 28, 2023
DoorDash is launching AI-powered voice ordering technology that will allow restaurants to increase their sales by answering all of the calls they receive, the company announced on Monday. The system will also provide customers with curated recommendations to complement their meal. The company’s 2023 Restaurant Online Ordering Trends Report reveals that one in five customers […]

Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform

August 28, 2023
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced that it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source community. On Friday, a splinter group announced it was developing an open source fork of Terraform, and officially launched the OpenTF project. “We completed […]