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A pizza box can feel like a recycling pop quiz. It’s cardboard, but there’s also the greasy bottom and cheese residue. Should the box go into the blue recycling bin or into the trash? Loading audio narration… The wrong decision may seem like a harmless toss, but it can have serious consequences — ones that technologists are hoping artificial intelligence can remedy.Recycling facilities, or materials recovery facilities, sort and process recyclable materials such as plastic, glass, and paper, which are then sold to manufacturers to create new products.However, if an unrecyclable item, like the grease-soaked pizza box, gets mixed in…
Will AI crush the jobs economy? James Manyika, a senior Google-Alphabet executive, bets it won’t. Loading audio narration… On Casey Newton’s “Platformer,” released on Tuesday, Manyika said he does not buy the most extreme predictions about near-term mass job loss from AI.Newton asked Manyika about Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, predicting that unemployment is about to spike because of new tech.”I’ll just say: let’s take the bet,” he replied. “Some of those predictions were made two years ago — that in two years, 50% of jobs would be wiped out. Well, two years is up. Let’s take a look. And anybody…
Before some startup founders raise their Series A, they’ll be raising AI tokens. Loading audio narration… OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new offer for Y Combinator’s current batch of founders: fork over some equity, and OpenAI will offer up $2 million in API tokens. YC general partner Tyler Bosmeny called it a “mic drop moment.””I am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build,” Altman wrote on X. “Happy building!”The pilot program will be available for spring and summer 2026 batches of the Y Combinator startup…
A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI’s structure, leadership, and finances, the AI giant is ready to move forward with its initial public offering, sources told the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes that his company will be ready to go public by September. The ChatGPT maker has been working with tech IPO powerhouse bankers Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and may file IPO paperwork confidentially with regulators within days or weeks, per the WSJ. The news of OpenAI’s potential IPO, which by all accounts should be a blockbuster, comes as the…
Yesterday’s big news was Google’s plan to blow up its traditional Search in favor of an AI-powered experience — but Google isn’t the only company planning for the next generation of discoverability.AThis morning, Bloomberg has news of the Andreessen Horowitz-backed Exa Labs, which has raised $250 million against a $2.2 billion valuation to go after the same market. And it’s part of a wave of startups all chasing AI search, which has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI. From Bloomberg: Exa is part of a wave of startups that are vying to transform the search…
Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models, called Stability Audio 3.0. The top model can generate professional-grade music of more than six minutes long, the company claimed. The company is releasing four new models under the Stable Audio 3.0 name: small SFX (459M parameters), small (459M parameters), medium (1.4B parameters), and large (2.7B parameters). The duo of small models is suitable for on-device sound and music generation of up to two minutes. Both medium and large models can create full compositions of 6 minutes, 20 seconds long that can maintain musical structure…
You may pick up a book in the future and see a label that says it’s been written by AI. Barnes & Noble’s CEO is OK with that. Loading audio narration… “I actually have no problem selling any book as long as it doesn’t masquerade or pretend to be something that it isn’t,” Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt said on a “Today” show segment on Monday.”So as long as an AI-written book says it’s an AI-written book and doesn’t pretend to be something else and isn’t ripping off somebody else, as long as that’s clearly stated and the customer…
BOSTON (AP) — At Harvard University, earning straight A’s is about to get harder.Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it would limit the number of A grades awarded to undergraduates, adopting one of the most ambitious efforts by a major university to curb grade inflation. The decision was made by faculty vote earlier this month.The move comes after top grades became so common that some Harvard faculty argued they no longer reliably distinguished exceptional work. More than 60% of all grades awarded to undergraduates in recent years were in the A range, according to university data cited…
Most tech companies have a technical founder first, and then someone to help with marketing and public relations. The company behind NanoClaw flipped that script. Loading audio narration… Lazer Cohen, a longtime public relations exec, brought his younger and more technical brother, Gavriel, in to build an AI-native PR agency last year. They knew that OpenClaw’s agents would be a huge help for their workflow but were spooked by its security flaws.”So he built his own version, which was secure, lightweight, simple, and that is Nanoclaw,” Lazer Cohen told Business Insider of his brother’s efforts. “Then, almost as an afterthought,…
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 in equity-free funding is gone in a week. Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. If you’re building a breakout startup — or know a founder who is — this is the moment to act. Apply today for the opportunity to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13-15, alongside 200 of the world’s most promising early-stage startups. Image Credits:Kimberly White / Getty Images The clock is ticking for early-stage founders Pre-Series A founders, consider this your final countdown reminder: The strongest startups are already entering the arena, and the application window is closing fast.…