Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View | TechCrunch
…top of Street View data,” Herbert said. “It’s definitely been an idea of ours to use Maps Data in new ways and for new kinds of AI research for a pretty…
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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them | TechCrunch
…Last month, Waymo and Waze announced a pilot program to share pothole data with local governments . Now, fleet management company Samsara says it’s one-upping that idea with its own AI…
Clio's $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante | TechCrunch
…to train on,” Newton said. “The analogy to legal is really clear.” Law firms hold massive corpuses of contracts and agreements, providing a rich basis of text-based data for AI models…
This is what some of the world's largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives | TechCrunch
…cases, that’s a lot of data. For context, cybersecurity companies, AI researchers, and threat intelligence firms treat repositories like these as critical for training detection models and understanding how attacks evolve…
Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers | TechCrunch
…While generic AI agents excel at basic summaries, prominent institutions like Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) and Yale Cancer Center use Triomics because its models are trained specifically on oncology data, Khan explained…
Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off | TechCrunch
…Physical AI is different. Autonomous vehicles, defense drones, mining equipment, agricultural machines — these manifest in the real world in ways governments can’t ignore, raising questions about safety, data collection, and who…
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive | TechCrunch
…But GM insists it is hiring and those layoffs have made room for it to recruit IT people with AI-focused backgrounds. The most sought-after capabilities are AI-native development, data…
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI | TechCrunch
…getting it on the test stand.” Romo suspects AI tools for hardware design may be slower to arrive because the right training data is hard to find, compared to the amount of…
What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet | TechCrunch
…Nvidia wants to be foundational to everything, from AI training to autonomous vehicles to Disney parks. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane…
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills | TechCrunch
…The most sought-after capabilities are AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development, prompt engineering, and new AI workflows. In practical terms, GM is…