When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation […]
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Back to news homeMeta Unveils a More Powerful A.I. and Isn’t Fretting Over Who Uses It
The largest companies in the tech industry have spent the year warning that development of artificial intelligence technology is outpacing their wildest expectations and that they need to limit who […]
After a Rocky Year, Zuckerberg Lays Out Meta’s Road Map to Employees
Mark Zuckerberg has spent the last nine months against the ropes as his company has made big cuts to its work force and struggled to gain mainstream traction with its […]
Meta Made Its AI Tech Open-Source. Rivals Say It’s a Risky Decision.
In February, Meta made an unusual move in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence: It decided to give away its A.I. crown jewels.The Silicon Valley giant, which owns Facebook, […]
Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built
In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code.Called Copilot, the tool was designed to speed the work of professional […]
A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze
A celebration for Stability AI, the start-up behind the controversial Stable Diffusion image generator, represents the arrival of a new A.I. boom. Read More
Can ‘the Merge’ Save Crypto?
Crypto could use a bit of good news these days. And on Wednesday, it got some.Ethereum, the most popular crypto platform, appears to have successfully upgraded its software architecture from […]
Open source startups have a natural growth model: PLG
Tracking the growth and frequency of open source startups has been a long-running project at TechCrunch. This column joined the fun in the last few years, noting what seemed to […]
Crypto, where the fallen seek a fresh start
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about privacy in crypto and how it’s sometimes at odds with regulation. This week, we’re covering a larger-than-life founder who is […]
Uniswap Labs COO MC Lader on the incentives behind DeFi
Crypto lending and financial services companies have been at the forefront of the industry’s latest controversies ever since the collapse of the Terra stablecoin, with many drawing parallels between the […]