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Rather than searching the internet for summaries of TV shows, where the risk of unintentionally revealing important plot points is high, Prime Video's latest feature is designed to help viewers avoid encountering spoilers. It is intended to. Amazon on Monday announced the launch of X-Ray Recaps, an AI-powered generation feature that creates concise summaries of entire seasons, single episodes, and even parts of episodes. In particular, the company claims that guardrails are in place to prevent the AI ​​from generating spoilers, so you can fully enjoy your favorite series without worrying about encountering unnecessary information. This new feature expands on…

Amazon, Meta and Microsoft are making big bets on nuclear power to power their data centers as AI and cloud computing drive electricity usage soaring. But as Amazon and Meta revealed last week, these bets are far from certain. A series of recent rulings by regulators have dashed hopes for a quick solution to electricity demand. For now, Microsoft's plans to revive the Three Mile Island reactor are moving forward. Perhaps unexpectedly, the outage has nothing to do with nuclear power itself, but points to the challenges of building large data centers without first securing a new source of power.…

Anthropic's latest AI model is here. But it's more expensive than the previous generation, and unlike Anthropic's other models, it still can't analyze images. The Claude 3.5 Haiku, announced by Anthropic last month, matches or outperforms Anthropic's flagship Claude 3 Opus in certain benchmarks. Claude 3.5 Haiku, available through Anthropic's API and numerous third-party platforms including AWS Bedrock, can help with coding suggestions, data extraction and labeling, and content moderation, Anthropic said. Anthropic previously hinted that the Claude 3.5 Haiku will be priced the same as its predecessor, the Claude 3 Haiku. Now that tone is changing. “During final testing,…

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our team sat in the front row, furiously typing away on their laptops, and was joined by impressive speakers like NFL quarterback-turned-founder Colin Kaepernick, Perplexity AI founder Aravind Srinivas, and Ashton Kutcher. We publish real-time news from top speakers. We are a well-oiled machine. Some writers have been covering disruption since before it was meta, before Silicon Valley gave us the free marketing of a lifetime (thank you, HBO). Still, this year, even TechCrunch's longest-serving editor was a little distracted by the dazzling jewelry adorning the stage. So if you've been paying more attention to the actual…

Anduril, the defense technology company co-founded by Palmer Lackey, plans to build its first major manufacturing facility in Arizona, Ohio or Texas, a 5 million square foot facility known as Arsenal-1. Officials said they are considering it. On that matter. The company, which develops autonomous drones, planes and submarines, announced a $1.5 billion investment in September at a post-money valuation of $14 billion. In connection with this round, Anduril announced plans to use the new capital for manufacturing and invest “hundreds of millions of dollars” in the development of its Arsenal-1 facility. He also said the money would be used…

Meta today made its Llama series of AI models available to U.S. government agencies and national security contractors to counter perceptions that its “open” AI is aiding foreign adversaries. Then he announced. “We are pleased to confirm that we are making Llama available to U.S. government agencies, including those working on defense and national security applications, as well as private sector partners supporting that work,” said Mehta. said in a blog post. “We partner with companies like Accenture, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Booz Allen, Databricks, Deloitte, IBM, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Scale AI, and Snowflake to bring Llama…

DeepRoute.ai, a Shenzhen-based self-driving technology startup, has raised $100 million from an unidentified Chinese automaker. Reuters reports that the company aims to install its self-driving system in as many vehicles as possible in China before Tesla's widespread adoption next year. China lifted some restrictions on Tesla cars in April, clearing the way for the automaker to launch an advanced driver assistance system called Full Self-Driving (FSD) in China. Tesla announced in September that it plans to roll out FSD in China and Europe in the first quarter of 2025. Alibaba-backed Deeproot is now racing to put its ADAS in about…

Large-scale language models have already proven to be transformative for robotics. Researchers and companies alike are using platforms to power robot learning, but two roboticists from the University of California, Berkeley and ETH Zurich are leveraging generative AI to make inexpensive robotic arms functional. I tried to make it happen. https://twitter.com/JannikGrothusen/status/1852790503823057073 Jannik Grothusen and Kasper Janssen trained a $120 robotic arm to clean up spills. Using GPT-4o, the robot was programmed in four days to design a visual language model for human-robot interaction (HRI). The motion was trained using approximately 100 demos. If you want a robot to help you…

The city of Columbus, the capital of Ohio, confirmed that hackers stole the personal data of 500,000 residents in a ransomware attack in July. The City of Columbus said in a filing with the Maine Attorney General that a “foreign cyberattacker” compromised the city's network and stole residents' names, dates of birth, addresses, identification documents, social security numbers, and bank accounts. admitted to having accessed information such as details of Ohio's most populous city, home to about 900,000 people, has not confirmed the exact number of casualties, but said about 500,000 people were affected. The regulatory filing comes after the…

One lesson that Silicon Valley's wild venture funding environment of the past few years has clearly taught us is that higher valuations aren't necessarily better. “Over the last three years, I think we've all experienced the negative effects of high valuations,” Hustle Fund co-founder Elizabeth Yin said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week. he said. When a venture capital bull market arrives and startups can easily raise large sums of money before launching an actual, provable business, they are exposing themselves to tough times. That's because “the hurdles for the next round will be even higher,” she says. As a…