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AMD is going all out for that at CES 2025. While chipmaker Nvidia remains at the forefront of the AI boom, its competitor is sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces. So how will AMD counter Nvidia's reported RTX 5000 announcement? The company will need to show off its own next-gen GPUs. As part of the ongoing rebranding, the RDNA 4 cards may arrive as the RX 8000 or RX 9000 series. No matter the company's name or numbers, AMD is going for it at this year's show. The presser will begin early on January 6th at 11am…
For millions of people at home with friends and family over the Christmas season, it's a time when many are busy fixing patchy Wi-Fi in their homes or facing a barrage of technology questions. It's also a time to do things. Instead, give them the gift of sound security advice this holiday season. This is the perfect time to actually make meaningful changes that will strengthen your loved one's cybersecurity. That's not to say it's not worth your time to fix your family's printer, but sharing a little security advice can go a long way in protecting your loved ones…
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized startups have also seen a fair amount of cuts, and in some cases, have shut down operations altogether. By tracking these layoffs, we’re able to understand the impact on innovation across companies large and small. We’re also able to see the potential impact of businesses…
A year after Onyx Motorcycles owner James Khatiblou passed away suddenly, leaving customers with unfulfilled orders and millions of dollars in unpaid debt, the brand has been revived by its original founder. “I'm excited to announce that I'm bringing back my original brand Onyx with incredible support!” founder Tim Seward wrote in a LinkedIn post on Monday. “Onyx is literally back in the future!” Initially, the company will only sell about 100 RCR electric dirt bikes. It's unclear whether these are newly produced units or part of a fleet of e-bikes manufactured by Onyx's Chinese supplier earlier this year that…
According to The Information, OpenAI has recently been looking into building its own humanoid robots. The report names “two people with direct knowledge” of these conversations. ChatGPT manufacturers have been involved in this field for some time with financial support. The company has previously invested in Figure and 1X, along with “general purpose AI” company Physical Intelligence. In 2021, OpenAI abandoned such ambitions after quietly shutting down its robotics division. Of course, a lot has happened in the last three years, with breakthroughs in both the hardware and the AI systems that power it. Barring some big-ticket startup acquisitions, a…
Is it possible to train an AI using only data generated by another AI? It may sound like a crazy idea. However, this has been around for quite some time and is gaining traction as new real data is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. Anthropic used some synthetic data to train one of its flagship models, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Meta used AI-generated data to fine-tune the Llama 3.1 model. And OpenAI is said to be sourcing synthetic training data from o1, its “inference” model, for the upcoming Orion. But why does AI need data in the first place? And what…
Samsung's CES reporter is always a weirdo. Korean electronics giants generally maintain a dry attitude when it comes to home appliances. After all, the company is expected to announce its latest flagship device, the Galaxy S25, towards the end of January. CES 2025 continues the company's television and consumer electronics heritage. There are also plenty of possibilities, including consumer robots that will probably never see the light of day. Samsung has adopted the tagline “AI for All: Everyday, Everywhere” for its presentation, which begins on January 6th at 2pm PT/5pm ET. That doesn't give us much to work on. After…
Contractors working on improving Google's Gemini AI are comparing its answers to the output produced by Anthropic's competing model, Claude, according to internal communications seen by TechCrunch. When asked for comment by TechCrunch, Google declined to say whether it had permission to use Claude in its tests against Gemini. As technology companies compete to build better AI models, the performance of these models is often measured against their competitors, typically by having contractors carefully evaluate their competitors' AI responses. rather than by running proprietary models through industry benchmarks. Contractors working on Gemini, tasked with evaluating the accuracy of the model's…
In an era when raising venture capital has become more difficult, many companies are turning to non-dilutive revenue-based financing (RBF) as an alternative. As a result, many startups sprung up to meet the challenge, especially in the MENA region, which adopted the model like a duck to water. The latest is CredibleX, which raised $55 million in a seed financing round led by Abu Dhabi-based Further Ventures to capitalize on the burgeoning market for revenue financing in the Middle East. CredibleX, which provides working capital loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, operates in a market where MENA competitors such as…
Clop, a prolific ransomware gang, is credited with stealing data from at least 66 companies by exploiting a bug in a widely used corporate file transfer tool made by Cleo Software. The cybercriminal organization on Tuesday listed some of the names of the companies it hacked on a leaked dark web site, which TechCrunch saw, but the companies did not respond to the organization's efforts to reach out to them. The organization said it would soon release the official name of the hacked company, presumably in an attempt to force the hackers to pay a ransom to prevent victims from…