UK’s antitrust enforcer sounds the alarm over Big Tech’s grip on GenAI

April 11, 2024

The UK’s competition watchdog has sounded a warning over Big Tech’s entrenching grip on the advanced AI market, with CEO Sarah Cardell expressing “real concerns” over how the sector is developing. In an Update Paper on foundational AI models published Thursday the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) cautioned over increasing interconnection and concentration between developers in […]

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This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant

April 11, 2024
It can be dizzying to try to understand all the complex components of a single computer chip: layers of microscopic components linked to one another through highways of copper wires, some barely wider than a few strands of DNA. Nestled between those wires is an insulating material called a dielectric, ensuring that the wires don’t…

TechCrunch Minute: TikTok and Meta’s latest moves signal a more commodified internet

April 11, 2024

The Internet’s mega-platforms are slowly merging into a great blob of sameness, and even the hottest companies in the world are not immune from the trend. TikTok’s winning strategy to focus on short-form, vertical video has found fans amongst other Internet platforms, and now TikTok is taking a page from its rivals books, reportedly borrowing […]

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