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This morning, Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened a new center in Paris dedicated to artificial intelligence. The hub is located in a newly renovated building near his Google headquarters in Paris. It is scheduled to host approximately 300 researchers and engineers. But if you pay close attention to Google's Paris location, you might think that Google had already launched an AI research center in Paris in 2018. In fact, the company told me it has no plans to create a new AI team for this purpose. new hub. There will be some new office space, but the team of 300…

It doesn't take long for GenAI to spout untruths and falsehoods. Last week, chatbots from Microsoft and Google declared the winner of the Super Bowl before the game even started. But the real problem begins when GenAI's illusions become harmful — endorsing torture, reinforcing ethnic and racial stereotypes, and writing persuasive conspiracy theories. From established companies like Nvidia and Salesforce to startups like CalypsoAI, a growing number of vendors are offering products that they claim can help mitigate unwanted and harmful content from GenAI. But they are black boxes. Without testing each individually, it's impossible to know how these hallucinogenic…

Performance management startup SocialCrowd has raised $1.6 million in a pre-seed round led by Bread and Butter Ventures, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Launched in 2020, SocialCrowd is a SaaS platform that provides performance management software that allows companies to set goals for their employees and reward them when they achieve them. In an interview with TechCrunch, SocialCrowd co-founder Raphael Akinsipe compared his company's product to a Fitbit, but for work. Akinsipe said customers can set up incentive campaigns with specific goals, and SocialCrowd tracks the performance of customers' employees in real-time by connecting to existing productivity apps. SocialCrowd then sends…

Meta is looking to capitalize on advertiser anger in its battle with Apple over in-app purchase fees by announcing it will soon pass on 30% of Apple's service fees to customers. In an announcement, the social networking giant said that starting later this month, advertisers who wish to pay to promote their posts on Facebook or Instagram's iOS apps will be billed through Apple, and this additional fee will be collected. explained. Meta is apparently circumventing Apple's rules with its paid boost option, as the company says you are now required to either “follow Apple's guidelines or remove boosted posts…

Continuing its challenge to TikTok, YouTube is introducing the ability for users to incorporate, or “remix,” music videos into short-form videos called Shorts. Given that YouTube has a vast library of official music videos that TikTok doesn't have, it makes sense for the platform to leverage that to advance its short-form video ambitions. The move comes weeks after Universal Music Group removed its song catalog from TikTok and removed the ability for users to add music from popular artists like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande to their videos. It is particularly important because it was carried out. There…

Welcome to Found. There you will get the story behind the startup. this week becca and dom Joining us is Tigran Sloyan, co-founder and CEO of skills assessment platform CodeSignal. Sloyan spoke to them about how traditional resume-based recruitment is outdated and how artificial intelligence is helping his company gain an edge. He also talked about: This is what led him to immigrate to America and start his own company. How skills assessment can lead to fairer employment practices. How does he approach recruiting for his team? In the outro, Dom and Becca talk a little more about the rise…

Heating and cooling may sound basic, but after solar power, it is the next frontier in home decarbonization. The group of 25 states has a goal of installing 15 million heat pumps by the end of the decade. Nine of these states hope to have 90% of residential heating, cooling and hot water systems equipped with this technology by 2040. To cope with the workload, the United States plans to add 23,000 engineers by 2032. You'll probably still be overworked though. Part of the problem is that heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment is laborious and time-consuming to install.…

After Instagram's founders' buzzy AI news app Artifact was shut down, a new app called Bulletin also uses AI to filter out clickbait and summarize the day's news. Except in this case, users can customize their news sources, which is a feature of the app, similar to other RSS readers, rather than relying on a curated selection of news like Artifact. Meanwhile, AI integration can help remove clickbait headlines from the news reading experience. Plus, you can access an article or an overview of all articles in your feed with the click of a button. Bulletin was created by developer…

LockBit, a prolific ransomware group, has claimed responsibility for hacking Motilal Oswal, one of India's leading securities firms. Indian authorities said they were aware of the incident and were investigating. Rockbit on Tuesday added leading Indian brokerage firm Motilal Oswal to its dark web leak site, according to a list seen by TechCrunch. Cybercriminal groups often use leak sites to extort ransom payments from victims, threatening to release their stolen data if they fail to pay. Rockbit claims to have accessed “confidential company data.” Motilal Oswal serves approximately 6 million customers across hundreds of cities in India and has approximately…

Google is currently expanding the range of Gemini large-scale language models available to developers on the Vertex AI platform. Gemini 1.0 Pro (Google is good at branding, so just a week ago it was still known as Gemini Pro 1.0) is now generally available after being in public preview for a while. Meanwhile, Google says that Gemini 1.0 Ultra (which you may also remember was formerly known as Gemini Ultra 1.0) is now generally available “via a whitelist,” which means This is different from the general method of acquisition. Google also today announced Gemini 1.5 Pro (not Gemini Pro 1.5,…