timef 02/23/2025
- Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks? techcrunch.com2025-02-23 06:55:14
Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babushkin, insisted that the company was […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts techcrunch.com2025-02-23 05:22:36
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- How I Podcast: Summer Album / Winter Album’s Jody Avirgan techcrunch.com2025-02-23 04:41:53
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online techcrunch.com2025-02-23 04:02:49
We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs, or even because something is a little wrong with your favorite product (shh), discontinued items are part of life. In a weekend piece, the New York […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition techcrunch.com2025-02-23 02:05:00
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Let’s get into it. Humane’s AI pin is dead. The hardware […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide techcrunch.com2025-02-23 00:55:41
The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
