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To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Amba Kak is executive director of the AI Now Institute, where she helps develop policy recommendations to address AI concerns. She is also a senior AI advisor at the Federal Trade Commission, where she previously worked as a global policy advisor…
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Keeping up with an industry as rapidly changing as AI is a challenge. So until AI can do it for you, here's a quick recap of recent stories in the world of machine learning, as well as notable research and experiments that we couldn't cover on our own. In the AI space this week, Google suspended its AI chatbot Gemini's ability to generate human images after some users complained about historical inaccuracies. For example, when asked to draw a “Roman legion,” Gemini ended up drawing an anachronistic, cartoonish, racially diverse group of infantrymen, while representing the “Zulu warriors” as black.…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Miranda Bogen is the founding director of the AI Governance Lab at the Center of Democracy and Technology, where she works to help create solutions that can effectively regulate and govern AI systems. She helps lead responsible AI strategies at Meta…
Byju Raveendran, founder of edtech group Byju's by the same name, told employees on Saturday, a day after a group of shareholders voted to fire him, that he remains the company's chief executive and that rumors of his dismissal are “very serious.” “It's exaggerated,” he said. Emergency general meeting. In a 758-word letter reviewed by TechCrunch, Raveendran alleged that shareholders violated several “material” local regulations. The shareholder group, which includes Prosus Ventures and Peak It was approved,” he said. and a change in leadership “so that it is no longer dominated by T&L's founders.” At stake is the future of…
Famous accelerator group Techstars announced This week saw a number of changes to operations, including the closure of some city-based programs. Criticism of that decision from former members has led to the famous startup accelerator losing focus on the very thing that has historically made it successful: operating urban hubs in areas where other similar programs are less dense. It sparked criticism on social media channels that claimed to be And one former Techstars managing director (MD) told TechCrunch that moving away from local funding for city-based accelerator programs was a mistake. Future closings will be that boulder and Seattle…
Earlier this week, accelerator group Techstars announced changes to its operations. But what was supposed to be an exciting new chapter for the organization ended up being a PR nightmare for him. Techstars has found itself facing criticism for some of its decisions and executions after recently announcing it would close its Boulder and Seattle accelerators. Exit the Austin-based programfirst reported by TechCrunch in December. For example, Zillow co-founder Spencer Raskoff said: said in X Techstars’ memo regarding the end of the program in Seattle reads:“The brutal destruction of that city’s startup scene.”Techstars Boulder graduate Liz his Jorge too Vent…
A document filed in court by the U.S. Department of Justice in a lawsuit against Google over Google's alleged monopoly in the search market, containing some notable information about the competitive landscape of the search market, including its internal structure, revenue, and in some cases, exit price. It became clear. Potential Google competitors include DuckDuckGo and Neeva, the latter of which was sold to Snowflake last year after pivoting to enterprises. Google's proposed “fact-finding” submission documents the history of search competition, including Google's own beginnings, innovation, competitive environment, Google's search advertising business, distribution agreements, and more. Of particular interest to…
Google this week apologized (or came very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI failure: an image generation model that injected diversity into photos with a farcical disregard for historical context. While the underlying problem is completely understandable, Google is accusing the model of being “over-sensitive.” But I didn't create the model myself. The AI system in question is Gemini, the company's flagship conversational AI platform, which invokes a version of the Imagen 2 model to create images on demand when requested. But recently it was discovered that asking it to generate images of specific historical situations or people can…