Топ-10 технологий на 2025-10-18
1. Why world models are the next big thing in AI
Описание: This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Around the middle of last year, Pim de Witte started reaching out to a handful of prominent AI labs to see if they…
2. Defunct electric aircraft startup Lilium’s tech lives on over at Archer | TechCrunch
Описание: Archer prevailed in a competitive bidding process that included Ambitious Air Mobility Group and U.S. based Joby Aviation.
3. New York bans AI-enabled rent price fixing
Описание: On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. New York is the first state to outlaw algorithmic pricing by landlords, following a number of city-wide bans in Jers…
4. EFF, unions sue Trump admin. over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents | TechCrunch
Описание: The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges the Trump administration is monitoring and punishing non-citizens who express social media views that the government disfavors.
5. Kayak launches an ‘AI Mode’ for travel questions, search, and bookings
Описание: Kayak is bringing AI directly to its main platform with a new “AI Mode” that lets travelers research, plan, and book trips through a built-in chatbot.
6. Unions are trying to stop Trump from kicking out immigrants over social media posts
Описание: The Trump administration’s heightened monitoring of immigrants’ social media accounts seeking grounds to revoke their visas stifles the speech rights of both noncitizens and citizens alike, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) alleges in a new lawsuit. Th…
7. Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands | TechCrunch
Описание: Where training sets were once scraped freely from the web or collected from low-paid annotators, companies are looking to proprietary training data as a competitive advantage.
8. Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Описание: Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with “evidence collection and investigative work.”
9. Pinterest’s ‘tuner’ lets you dial down the amount of AI content — but not entirely
Описание: Pinterest is rolling out a tool that allows users to “dial down the AI” in their feed, the company says. Users can select which categories they want populated with more or less AI-generated content. But Pinterest stops short of promising a feed that’s complet…
10. Rent a Cyber Friend will pay you to talk to strangers online and will show off its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Описание: “Loneliness is the biggest disease in the world right now,” founder Francesco Vitali said. “So we built a platform where human time has value again, and a place where being human is important.”