Karoline Leavitt’s goodbye to the White House came with an unexpected disclosure. The outgoing White House press secretary announced Wednesday that she would leave her role at the end of August after struggling to balance the job’s demands with raising two young children. “The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth
Ads designed to influence AI agents rather than human consumers are emerging as a new marketing channel. They’re also opening up a new brand safety battleground. The big outstanding question: Once the AI platforms get wise to brands advertising to their crawlers, will they play ball or try to stamp out the practice? Here’s an
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack
Last week, an unreleased model created by OpenAI breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing, and a lot of theoretical research suddenly became very practical. The hack was the first verifiable case of an AI lab losing control of its own model, chaining exploits to gain access it should never have had. But while the
For a while, it felt like everyone was moving south. The trend took off during the pandemic, when remote work gave more Americans the flexibility to live wherever they wanted. Many headed to states where housing was more affordable and jobs were easier to find. Southern states such as Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and
An apparent effort by the Indian government to remove GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-powered offline messaging app, has raised questions about the legal basis for targeting open source software because of how it works. The issue with Bitchat came to light after Dorsey posted on X on Friday what he said was a