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NewsPicks AI: India’s payment push is cutting out Visa and Mastercard
As global regulators increase their scrutiny on Visa and Mastercard over merchant fees, India has chosen a different path: creating rival payment networks...
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NewsPicks AI: Bird Buddy expands into insects with Wonder line
Bird Buddy’s smart bird feeders are a perfect confluence of different consumer technologies. Breakthroughs in security cameras, AI, and solar charging have converged...
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NewsPicks AI: Will Smith eating spaghetti and other weird AI benchmarks that took off in 2024
When a company releases a new AI video generator, it’s not long before someone uses it to make a video of actor Will...
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NewsPicks AI: OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy
OpenAI announced a new family of AI reasoning models on Friday, o3, which the startup claims to be more advanced than o1 or...
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NewsPicks AI: Waymo fills the Cruise void overseas and a salute to an icon
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This will be the last...
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NewsPicks AI: AI startup Oddysee’s new tool can generate photorealistic 3D worlds
Odyssey, a startup founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, is developing an AI-powered tool that can transform text or an...
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NewsPicks AI: Revisiting 19th-century Paris with VR
While I have fond memories of past efforts to combine VR content with real-world locations, I’d assumed the pandemic had put those ambitions...
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NewsPicks AI: HongShan, Peak XV back stablecoin-powered neobank KAST
Peak XV and HongShan, the Indian and Chinese investment firms that split from powerhouse Sequoia last year, have co-led a $10 million seed...
