Топ-10 технологий на 2025-12-16
1. How iRobot lost its way home | TechCrunch
Описание: iRobot survived three decades of competition, but couldn’t survive European regulators killing its Amazon buyout. Now it’s being taken over by its own supplier in bankruptcy court.
2. Grok gets the facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting | TechCrunch
Описание: Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia.
3. Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages | TechCrunch
Описание: Fintech startup Mesa has shut down its Homeowners Card, which awarded points to cardholders for paying their mortgages.
4. Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting
Описание: Grok’s track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia is shocking. The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man…
5. Absynth is back and weirder than ever after 16 years
Описание: Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found an audience among the growing cadre of people making music on computers. But its last major update, Absynth 5, was released in 2009, and Nati…
6. Making sense of the risky Netflix-Warner Bros. deal | TechCrunch
Описание: Netflix’s $82.6 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. encapsulates a fraught moment for Hollywood, as the entertainment business is increasingly overshadowed by tech giants.
7. TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s survival plan involves more than cars | TechCrunch
Описание: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
8. The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
Описание: Here’s a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun to talk to that people actually start falling in love with their iPhones. We may…
9. For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
Описание: If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
10. India’s Spinny lines up $160M funding to acquire GoMechanic, sources say | TechCrunch
| Описание: India’s Spinny lines up $160M funding to acquire GoMechanic, sources say | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com |