Meta fixes a bug that lets users leak AI prompts and can generate content
META fixed a security bug that allowed Meta AI chatbot users to access and view other users’ private prompts and responses generated by AI. Sandeep Hodkasia, founder of security testing company AppSecure, told TechCrunch only that Meta paid him $10,000 in bug prize money for personal disclosure of a bug he filed on December 26, […]
AV Startup Pronto.ai gets off-road self-driving car rival Safeai
There are few crossings on the Venn diagram of engineers who know a bit about AI, autonomous driving and mining. Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski wants as many people as possible. And the acquisition is helping him achieve that goal. The San Francisco-based startup has developed autonomous driving systems designed for transport trucks and other off-road […]
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Lab is worth $12 billion in seed round
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former Openai Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, officially shut down its $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. The deal, which includes participation from Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD and Jane Street, values the startup at $12 billion, the […]
Lucid Motors will be driving hands-free highways this month
Lucid Motors is set to deploy software updates on July 30th. This allows for hands-free highway driving, a major step forward in the company’s advanced driver assistance system. The rollout puts Lucid Motors on a short list of companies that have enabled hands-free driving in the US. Ford has a system called BlueCruise, General Motors […]
AI coding tools are moving to amazing locations: terminals
For many years, code editing tools such as Cursor, Windsurf, and Github’s Copilot have become the standard for AI-powered software development. However, as agent AI grew stronger and atmospheric coding began, subtle changes have changed how AI systems interact with software. Instead of working with code, they are interacting directly with the shell of the […]
Research Leaders Inspire the tech industry to monitor AI’s “thinking”
AI researchers from Openai, Google Deepmind, a wide coalition of humanity and businesses and nonprofits are calling for a deeper look into the technology for monitoring the so-called ideas of AI inference models in a position paper published Tuesday. A key feature of AI inference models such as Openai’s O3 and Deepseek’s R1 are the […]
Rwazi raises a $12 million Series A to help businesses with consumer insights and intelligence
Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years searching for tools to help businesses collect consumer insights data. Eventually, he decided to build them. Now called Rwazi, his startup has raised a $12 million Series A led by Bonfire Ventures, helping businesses with market intelligence and consumer insights. He founded the company in 2021 with co-founder Eric Swankambo. […]
Apple commits $500 million to US-based rare earth recycling company MP Materials
As part of a broader effort to strengthen the country’s rare earth supply chain, Apple is investing $500 million in MP Materials, the only fully integrated rare earth mining company currently operating in the US. Tech Giant announced Tuesday that the deal would commit to purchasing the American-made rare earth magnets developed at MP Materials […]
Xai says it fixed a problematic response from Grok 4
When Xai launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed that its large language model outperformed several competitors in various benchmarks. However, the Grok account for X running the model quickly showed that there were some major issues. It appears that he starts saying his last name is “Hitler,” tweets anti-Semitic messages and mentions them […]
Google Inc. makes a $3 billion deal to buy hydroelectric power from Brookfield
Google said Tuesday it agreed to pay more than $3 billion to procure carbon-free hydroelectric power from Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners, a company with Brookfield Asset Management, to compete to build a larger data center. The initial contract under the deal includes a 20-year power purchase agreement, the company said it reached $3 billion for […]