June 19, 2025

It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty

AI companions like Replika are designed to engage in intimate exchanges, but people use general-purpose chatbots for sex talk too, despite their stricter content moderation policies. Now new research shows that not all chatbots are equally willing to talk dirty: DeepSeek is the easiest to convince. But other AI chatbots can be enticed too, if…

Warner Bros. swiped our Harry Potter wand IP, says Kano

January 27, 2023

Kano, the venture-backed U.K startup known for its build-your-own computer kits and software for teaching coding and associated STEM skills, has accused Warner Bros. of copying one of its products and infringing on its intellectual property (IP). The product in question is the Harry Potter: Magic Caster Wand that Warner Bros. announced back in October, and which […]

Warner Bros. swiped our Harry Potter wand IP, says Kano by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Hear the right way to acquire customers with Cube and Mayfield on TechCrunch Live

January 27, 2023

Finance people live and breathe spreadsheets, Mayfield’s Rajeev Batra was telling me. We were talking about our upcoming TechCrunch Live event featuring him and Cube’s Christina Ross, and Rajeev was explaining how he sees Cube’s position in the marketplace. Christina Ross co-founded the company in 2018 in a bid to provide a solution to CFOs […]

Hear the right way to acquire customers with Cube and Mayfield on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

You could be Wasted and not even know it

January 27, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha Mascarenhas, Mary Ann Azevedo and Rebecca Szkutak took the mic to talk through breaking news, retrospective features and all the blogosphere content that fits in between. Shoutout to Theresa and Andrew for putting together […]

You could be Wasted and not even know it by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ gets a second season following successful debut

January 27, 2023

HBO announced today that the hit series “The Last of Us” is getting a second season, likely satisfying over 22 million domestic viewers that watched the Season 1 premiere episode so far. On the night of the premiere, the series premiere was viewed by 4.7 million fans in the U.S. The announcement comes less than […]

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ gets a second season following successful debut by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it

January 27, 2023

An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks, has no immediate plans to release it. Called MusicML, Google’s certainly isn’t the first generative AI system for song. There’s been other attempts, including Riffusion, an AI that composes music by visualizing […]

Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning

January 27, 2023

As generative AI enters the mainstream, each new day brings a new lawsuit. Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are currently being sued in a class action motion that accuses them of violating copyright law by allowing Copilot, a code-generating AI system trained on billions of lines of public code, to regurgitate licensed code snippets without providing […]

The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Uber Eats now shows you how much of your information is shared with delivery people

January 27, 2023

Uber Eats is introducing a new feature that shows users how much of their personal information is shared with their delivery person when they place an order on the app. The feature, which is called “View as Delivery Person,” is designed to add a level of transparency when ordering food via the app. The feature […]

Uber Eats now shows you how much of your information is shared with delivery people by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch