A high school student in Baltimore County, Maryland was reportedly handcuffed and searched after an AI security system flagged his bag of chips as a possible gun. Taki Allen, Kenwood High School student, told CNN affiliate WBAL“I was just holding a Doritos bag — it had two hands and a finger out, and they said…
John Nitti has left his post as advertising chief of X after just ten months, Financial Times report, Nitti, who joined just 10 months ago as global head of revenue operations and advertising innovation, was considered a possible successor to former CEO Linda Yaccarino, who resigned in July. His exit adds to a series of…
The browser wars are heating up againThis time with AI in the driver’s seat. OpenAI recently launched Atlas, a ChatGPT-powered browser that lets users surf the web using natural language and includes an “agent mode” that can complete tasks autonomously. It’s one of the biggest browsers launched recently, but it’s debuting with an unresolved security…
President Donald Trump pardons Binance Founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhaolike before Reported by CNBC, Zhao previously pleaded guilty to enabling money laundering while running a cryptocurrency exchange, and served four months in prison last year. “President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration in…
Rivian is reportedly cutting another 600 employees in its third layoff of the year, or about 4% of its total workforce, according to wall street journal, The company had previously cut about 100 to 150 employees in its commercial and manufacturing teams in September and June, respectively. Rivian declined to comment on which teams would…
Have you ever wondered whether you are talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots online continue to outnumber humans, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-powered fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: Scanning your iris to verify your identity, today on techcrunch equity Podcast, Rebecca…
Alexander Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, wrote in a memo to employees on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab. report From Axios. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is accurate. As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other companies race to build the most powerful…
Langchain raises $125 million at $1.25 billion valuation, company announced On Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was Raising fresh money at a valuation of at least $1 billionAs we previously reported, the deal was led by IVP. New investors CapitalG and Sapphire…
In March, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy organization disbanded its energy policy team, cutting dozens of staff. Now, some of them have founded a new organization, the nonprofit clean economy project, Similar for decisive energyThe organization is betting that clean energy can beat fossil fuels on cost, if not today, then in the near future. According…
President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a deal on Monday that will invest billions of dollars in critical minerals projects. The US and Australia together will contribute $3 billion to the projects in the next six months. The governments said the total project pipeline is worth $8.5 billion. As part of…
