Trajectory has successfully secured $45 million in funding to democratize artificial intelligence by making model training accessible to nontechnical experts. The innovative platform aims to bridge the gap between complex machine learning techniques and business professionals who lack coding backgrounds. By streamlining the development process, the company empowers domain specialists to build and customize AI models tailored to their specific industry needs. This significant capital injection will accelerate product development, expand market reach, and further the mission of widespread AI adoption. Ultimately, this funding highlights the growing industry demand for intuitive tools that remove technical barriers in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
AI research lab Anthropic has issued a stark warning that humanity is rapidly approaching the threshold of recursive self-improvement, a milestone where artificial intelligence systems become capable of autonomously designing and upgrading their own successors. This looming capability marks a pivotal turning point in computer science, potentially accelerating the development of artificial general intelligence far beyond human control or anticipation. While proponents view this as a catalyst for unprecedented technological breakthroughs, safety experts emphasize the critical urgency for robust guardrails and oversight. As the tech industry races toward this self-building frontier, the debate over how to safely manage runaway machine intelligence has never been more pressing.
Squarespace, the web company that helps customers build and host their own websites, is laying off about one-fifth of its workforce, in a move that will affect hundreds of jobs. Jeff Seedman, a public relations specialist representing Squarespace, confirmed the…
The New York Times sued Brave, the 11-year-old, privacy-focused browser company, on Monday, alleging it scraped the outlet’s copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Separately on Monday, the…
Here’s a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation? Israeli startup 42AI says it is developing a “behavioral world model” that…
Over Halloween weekend, some Grok Bot users awoke to something especially spooky: Their weekly usage limits were unexpectedly maxed out, even if they hadn’t been using SpaceX’s agentic AI overnight. Some users reported on X that their usage jumped from…
U.S. data centers use 17 to 19 billion gallons of water to cool their hot-running chips each year — and that number is expected to triple in the next five years, according to The Water Foundation. That’s an expensive and…
Two days from now, TechCrunch Founder Summit, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, brings founders, investors, and operators together at SoWa Power Station to talk about building companies from Boston and beyond. November 4 is the day to make meaningful founder-focused connections,…
The ChatGPT desktop app can be a confusing piece of software, given that there are ChatGPT and Codex sections, and within the former, there are Chat and Work tabs. With so many options, it’s sometimes easy to forget where you…
Welcome, humans. So apparently you can now get in trouble for being rude to Claude. Starting November 12, Anthropic’s updated usage policy bans sustained, needless abuse or cruelty toward its models, a rule Anthropic first announced on October 8. Before…