If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable. “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO…
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Stratospheric airship flew from US to Japan to test sky cell tower concept
The lighter-than-air platform has also benefited from advances in material sciences that “were either not discovered or not understood back in the late 1990s,” Frandsen said. He highlighted the example…
The Maeving RM2 is high-style electric riding with a few compromises
There’s a fast-growing category of two-wheeled electric vehicles splitting the difference between high-end scooters and entry-level motorcycles, fresh bikes with avant-garde style but approachable performance. I’m talking about offerings like…
Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics | TechCrunch
Even Healthcare has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, as the Indian startup seeks to change how hospitals in the world’s most populous country make…
A Savannah police officer gave her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
Now, former Savannah police officer Amber Harpe was fired in August following a department investigation that found she had shared her Flock login information with her husband, Tyler Harpe, an…
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market | TechCrunch
The players sometimes change. I sat down with four of Benchmark’s partners three years ago, and three of those individuals are no longer with the firm. The capital commitments have…
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’ | TechCrunch
Anthropic announced today that it’s creating a “public benefit fund” that will give the company “increased flexibility and scale” to support projects for societal good. Anthropic said that it will…
Mister Organ is one of the most unsettling documentaries I’ve ever seen
Mister Organ doesn’t reach the level of societal horror of The Act of Killing or the creepypasta-meets-true-crime gruesomeness of Beware the Slenderman, but there’s something deeply unsettling about Michael Organ…
Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ | TechCrunch
“You Can See Everything” is already a box office sensation, with a $15 million opening weekend (based on Sunday estimates). That’s the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary…
A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot
Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia’s ABC13…