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Character AI is ending its chatbot experience for kids
After facing lawsuits and public outcry following the suicides of two teenagers, Character. AI says it's making changes to its platform to protect children, changes that could affect the startup’s...
Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping
Phia founders, Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, are building an AI assistant that aims to help you shop, and save.
Counterintuitive’s new chip aims escape the AI ‘twin trap’
AI startup company, Counterintuitive, has set out to build “reasoning-native computing,” enabling machines to understand rather than simply mimic. Such a breakthrough has the potential to shift AI from pattern...
The AI Hype Index: Data centers’ neighbors are pivoting to power blackouts
Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t always easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a simple, at-a-glance summary of everything you need to know about the state of...
DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember
An AI model released by Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI’s ability to “remember. ” Released last week, the optical character recognition (OCR) model...
OpenAI unveils open-weight AI safety models for developers
OpenAI is putting more safety controls directly into the hands of AI developers with a new research preview of “safeguard” models. The new ‘gpt-oss-safeguard’ family of open-weight models is aimed...
Geostar pioneers GEO as traditional SEO faces 25% decline from AI chatbots, Gartner says
The moment Mack McConnell knew everything about search had changed came last summer at the Paris Olympics. His parents, independently and without prompting, had both turned to ChatGPT to plan...
Agentic AI is all about the context — engineering, that is
Presented by ElasticAs organizations scramble to enact agentic AI solutions, accessing proprietary data from all the nooks and crannies will be keyBy now, most organizations have heard of agentic AI,...
From static classifiers to reasoning engines: OpenAI’s new model rethinks content moderation
Enterprises, eager to ensure any AI models they use adhere to safety and safe-use policies, fine-tune LLMs so they do not respond to unwanted queries. However, much of the safeguarding...
‘Silicon Valley’ star Thomas Middleditch makes a surprise appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Actor Thomas Middleditch had a planned takeover of Australian startup Othelia’s presentation at the pitch showcase stage.