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OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT creator announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” a series of reveals that will be livestreamed at 10 a.m. PT for the next 12 weekdays. Day one of the event saw the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI’s $200 per month subscription plan…

Meta has announced the newest addition to its Llama family of generative AI models: Llama 3.3 70B. In a post on X, Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said that the text-only Llama 3.3 70B delivers the performance of Meta’s largest Llama model, Llama 3.1 405B…

Nowadays is a seed-stage company doing something really useful with AI. It automates large event planning from emails to phone calls. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Fresh campaign financing data shows that Elon Musk poured more than $260 million into political groups in 2024 that helped Donald Trump win the presidential election and, consequently, secured a position for himself as the co-head of government efficiency, according to the Federal Election Commission. The New York Times reported that Musk and the entities he

EA FC 25 promos are coming thick and fast as we anticipate the arrival of FUTMas. The Mode Mastery event is continuing, of course, but there’s something much more pressing – Ultimate Succession. As we covered with our predictions, the idea behind Ultimate Succession is that it pairs older players with hotshots who remind us

PlayStation has unveiled its official Christmas gift guide to give head-scratching folk some ideas of what to buy their console-loving family members. If you’re stuck for ideas for what to get the gamer in your life, Sony reckons remote players, elite wireless headsets and new controllers are the way forward. And for the younger ones

Destiny 2 is one of the most successful live-service titles in all of gaming, and has kept players logging in since September 2017 to see what’s new. Much has changed in that time, and we’ve had a whole host of expansions, but one thing that’s remained is Xur. The tentacle-faced ‘Agent of the Nine’ is

Call of Duty fans are in a pretty good place right now with Season 1 Reloaded launching yesterday across both Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Still, some have taken a closer look at one of the game’s newly-introduced Zombies loading screens and found something surprising. No, it’s not that Santa is now a flesh-eating zombie

While Arcane Season 3 may not be on the cards, a new card game from Riot Games is. The developer behind League of Legends and VALORANT is doing something a little bit different, introducing a new card game that’s made for the tabletop rather than a digital title. The game, currently known as Project K

We covered last month how Fortnite OG was returning, and now we know when, and what’ll be included. The throwback mode will be permanent, and should tickle your nostalgia gland with a relatively simplified battle royale experience that offers something a little more stripped back than the current “Hunters” Chapter 6 drop. Here’s all we

If you’ve tried to log in to play The First Descendant today, you’ll know that’s tricky because the servers are down. Believe it or not, they’ve been down since 5am, but the popular loot-shooter should now be up and running again with a whole host of improvements as part of Season 2: Void Chaser. The

Jake Paul fans and haters alike, good news – the controversial influencer-turned-boxing star is being added to Undisputed, this year’s boxing simulator. Whether you want to play as the man himself or rough him up, a new expansion pack dubbed “The Problem Child” will see the YouTube sensation added to the game alongside six other

There are so many “games as a service” these days, but it’s hard to deny that the team at IO Interactive is doing things right. While the team recently removed Conor McGregor following his civil rape case, the game has offered a series of celebrity cameos as “Elusive Targets” to hunt down. We’ve seen Gary

If you’ve been enjoying Riot Games’ Arcane show, you’re not alone – Season 2 of the Netflix hit has taken social media by storm as players catch up with Jinx and Vi. The show, which is based on Riot’s League Of Legends, had previously been slated for two seasons. Still, with so much hype around

The Nintendo Switch has been around for almost eight years now, and while its successor is likely on the horizon, that means there’s a huge library of games to jump into. Whether you’re looking for something involving Mario, a new Zelda adventure, or just want to mix it up with a wealth of characters in

It’s a busy week for gamers, but Path of Exile 2 is sneaking in at the end of the year as one of the most-anticipated ARPGs in an increasingly crowded genre. With Diablo 4’s excellent Vessel of Hatred expansion and Last Epoch launching this year, there’s no shortage of loot to chase and monsters to

You’ve got to hand it to the Bloodborne community. Fans of Software’s 2015 action title have been feeding off what little scraps they can find to keep themselves convinced a new game is coming. From unsubstantiated Twitter ‘leaks’ to server maintenance and phantom PlayStation events, it’s been a bizarre road, but as we approach The

The first Lucid Motors Gravity SUV has rolled off the company’s production line in Casa Grande, Arizona, according to a post on X. The company will now set its aim on ramping up production of the new electric vehicle and making the first deliveries — though the company is staying quiet about when it will

In what has become a bit of an annual tradition, I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent this week. Another annual tradition now is that Vogels, who joined Amazon in 2004, publishes a series of predictions for the next year. It’d be easy to think that this year’s predictions are all

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If OpenAI has its way, the next online course you take might have a chatbot component. Speaking at a fireside on Monday hosted by Coeus Collective, Siya Raj Purohit, a member of OpenAI’s go-to-market team for education, said that OpenAI might explore ways to let e-learning instructors create custom “GPTs” that tie into online curriculums…

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Investors gave a minimum of $77,593, per the filing. 97 participated, but the document doesn’t reveal their identities. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Valor Equity Partners…

A new update from Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads allows users to connect more with the fediverse, which is also called the open social web and includes services like Flipboard, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and more. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that users can now follow profiles from other fediverse servers…

As businesses move from trying out generative AI in limited prototypes to putting them into production, they are becoming increasingly price conscious. Using large language models isn’t cheap, after all. One way to reduce cost is to go back to an old concept: caching. Another is to route simpler queries to smaller…

Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few employees? Kruze Consulting, a CPA firm that specializes in venture-backed startups, recently analyzed average salary ranges for over 450 seed-stage startups and shared that data with TechCrunch…

During an interview at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that it’d be “profoundly un-American” for Elon Musk, the CEO of X and Tesla, to wield political influence to “hurt competitors” and “advantage [his] own businesses.” “I don’t think people would tolerate that,” he said…

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Intel’s newly departed CEO Pat Gelsinger could be walking away with more than $10 million in severance pay. As per a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, Intel and Gelsinger entered into a “retirement and separation agreement” which will entitle the former CEO to a payment equal to 18 months of his

Glovo, a Spanish delivery app owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero, has bowed to pressure over labor rights in its home market. The company announced Monday it will hire around 15,000 riders — most of them are currently “self employed” according to Glovo. Per Reuters, the company also warned of a €100 million hit to earnings…