Copper is critical to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The metal is an excellent conductor of electricity, used in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines. But by the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency expects copper supplies…Read More »
Europe doesn’t have many big language model makers (LLMs), but one of those rare AI beasts – Germany’s Aleph Alpha – seems to be getting ready to drop out of the race, according to Bloomberg, which has an interview with the CEO…Read More »
At its best, programming is a creative endeavor, but in this age of transforming everything else, much of a developer’s day is filled with what All Hands AI co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan calls the “work-oriented key” such as writing unit tests.…Read More »
Software documentation—the resources that explain how software works and how to use it—has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. Once mostly in the form of PDFs and static plain text, today’s documents are more interactive and user-friendly than they used to…Read More »
Vay, a startup that made a teleoperated breakthrough in car-sharing in Berlin and Las Vegas, is expanding into commercial and business-to-business services supported by recent deals with French carmaker Peugeot and Belgium-based Poppy. Vay is not a traditional ride-hailing or car-sharing startup,…Read More »
First announced at Google’s I/O developer conference in May, Google Photos’ AI-based search feature, “Ask Photos,” rolled out to users starting Thursday. The feature, which allows users to ask AI to find photos with more complex questions, will initially be available in…Read More »
The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of images of synthetic nudes that resemble real people. On Thursday, Microsoft took a big step to give victims of revenge porn a tool to prevent…Read More »
For more than two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the day-to-day working capital needs of his family business, sesame seed exporter Dhaval Agri. It was an agreement that basically worked: the company grew to have a share of…Read More »
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility – your central hub for news and insights on the future of transport. Sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! Short week, shorter newsletter. For all the readers based in the US, I hope…Read More »