Топ-10 технологий на 2025-08-07
1. AI could turn your town nuclear
Описание: These days, Paducah, Kentucky - population 27,000 and home to the National Quilt Museum - prides itself as “Quilt City.” But decades ago, it was also called the “Atomic City” - a moniker it could soon regain as AI’s energy needs bring Paducah’s nuclear past b…
2. Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation | TechCrunch
Описание: The AI sales automation startup raised fresh funds, led by CapitalG, just months after its last round.
3. Jeff Buckley died young but is immortalized in a new documentary
Описание: Jeff Buckley captivated an audience of generations with his transcendent voice and soaring guitar. After his untimely passing in 1997 at age 30, he gained posthumous, cult-like status. Never one for the charts, his album Grace has stood the test of time and i…
4. For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS | TechCrunch
Описание: This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.
5. Linda Yaccarino joins health tech platform eMed as CEO after leaving X | TechCrunch
Описание: Though Yaccarino does not have experience in health tech, eMed said in a press release that they sought her out for her “undeniable ability to negotiate new partnerships.”
6. Google Gemini can now create AI-generated bedtime stories
Описание: Google rolled out a new tool within its Gemini AI chatbot that lets you create an illustrated story by simply describing it. The feature, called “Storybook,” generates 10-page stories, each with a short paragraph of text that Gemini can read aloud, along with…
7. OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run right on your laptop
Описание: OpenAI is releasing a new open-weight model dubbed GPT-OSS that can be downloaded for free, be customized, and even run on a laptop. The model comes in two variants: 120-billion-parameter and 20-billion-parameter versions. The bigger version can run on a sing…
8. OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Описание: For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state-of-the-art.
9. OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
Описание: The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.
10. Some people are defending Perplexity after Cloudflare ‘named and shamed’ it | TechCrunch
Описание: In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn’t a simple matter.