Month: February 2025

How Ukraine changed defence tech: The stigma is gone Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-ukraine-changed-defence-tech/

1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI The U.K. government is pushing forward with plans to attract more AI companies to the region through changes to copyright law that would allow developers to train AI models on artists’ content on the internet — without permission

UK’s internet watchdog toughens approach to deepfake porn Ofcom, the U.K.’s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement the Online Safety Act (OSA) — the latest set of recommendations aim to support in-scope firms to meet legal obligations to protect women and girls

Web Summit attendees aren’t buying Scale AI CEO’s push for America ‘to win the AI war’ In a bold move last month, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post, telling President Trump that “America must win the AI war.” The statement sparked mixed

Anthropic reportedly ups its next funding round to $3.5B Anthropic’s next funding round is reportedly growing larger. Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, is finalizing a $3.5 billion fundraising round that values the company at $61.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic initially set out to raise

Chegg sues Google over AI search summaries Edtech company Chegg has sued Google claiming that the tech giant’s AI summaries of search results have hurt Chegg’s traffic and revenue. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chegg accuses Google of unfair competition —

Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December. According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of video, which adds

Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is as good as ever, but doesn’t play well with Tesla Superchargers at the moment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/hyundais-new-tesla-charging-port-comes-up-short/

Palantir CEO’s new book says Silicon Valley has ‘lost its way’ Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp opens his new book with a provocative declaration: “Silicon Valley has lost its way.” Over the past decade or so, as the data analytics company rose to prominence with its work for U.S.

Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Kyle Clark, Beta’s