Lucas Ropek is a senior writer at TechCrunch. He covers a range of topics including artificial intelligence, consumer tech, and startups, drawing on his previous experience in AI and cybersecurity at Gizmodo. Lucas has been featured in notable outlets such as Yahoo News, Gizmodo Media Group, and Quartz.
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Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia. Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
9 pts As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the costs to its consumers.
By: Lucas Ropek
Situational Awareness, the AI focused hedge fund that was Wall Street's fleeting obsession, is having a very bad month.
By: Lucas Ropek
Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding. The new haul brings the company's fundraising total to $232 million.
By: Lucas Ropek
13 pts Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
AI is transforming everything around us but, thus far, it has largely remained contained to the digital realm. Increasingly, however, startups are looking to take it into the real world.
Perceptron, a startup founded by former Meta scientists, has launched Isaac 0.5, a new model designed to enhance machine interaction in industrial environments.
By: Lucas Ropek
15 pts The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
By: Lucas Ropek
15 pts The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
