3 Costly Mistakes Companies Make When Using Gen AI

March 21, 2025
Gen AI isn’t like other technology, so it’s easy to miss the real risks of deploying it across your content. Understand three potential blindspots so you can sidestep the risks of gen AI and maximize the rewards.

Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech 

March 21, 2025
Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is, if Wayve sticks to its strategy of ensuring its automated driving software is cheap to run, hardware agnostic, and can be applied to advanced driver assistance systems, robotaxis, and even robotics.  The strategy, which Kendall laid […]

Microsoft is exploring a way to credit contributors to AI training data

March 21, 2025
Microsoft is launching a research project to estimate the influence of specific training examples on the text, images, and other types of media that generative AI models create. That’s per a job listing dating back to December that was recently recirculated on LinkedIn. According to the listing, which seeks a research intern, the project will […]

Meta spotted testing AI-generated comments on Instagram

March 21, 2025
In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting with AI-generated characters complete with unique profiles and personalities, before scraping them after they were deemed creepy and unnecessary. In yet another move that may not be received well among users, Meta wants to use […]

1X will test humanoid robots in ‘a few hundred’ homes in 2025

March 21, 2025
Norwegian robotics startup 1X plans to start early tests of its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in “a few hundred to a few thousand” homes by the end of 2025, according to the company’s CEO, Bernt Børnich. “Neo Gamma is going into homes this year,” Børnich told TechCrunch in an interview at Nvidia GTC 2025. “We […]

Commercial services platform BuildOps becomes a unicorn, raises $127M

March 21, 2025
Commercial services tech hasn’t historically been considered “sexy,” but the need for innovation in the space is enormous. That need has translated into a large fundraise for a company focused on streamlining commercial contracting processes. On Friday, BuildOps, which develops software for commercial services contractors, announced that it has raised $127 million in a Series […]