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Introducing the Ultimate AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re excited to announce that our dedicated AI stage program presented by Google Cloud at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is complete and able to launch! It joins fintech, SaaS, and space as other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof.
We couldn’t do TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 with out a deep dive into all points of AI. So without further ado, here’s our final plan for the AI Stage, which can happen all day on Wednesday, October 30. As a classic TechCrunch stage, we’ve got a few of the industry’s emerging powerhouses like Perplexity, Meta, Hugging Face, and Zoox, alongside academics, thought leaders, and our partners like Nebius AI, MongoDB, HP, and Thomson Reuters.
AI Stage program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
How Generative AI Is Flooding the Web with Disinformation
with Imran Ahmed (CCDH), Brandie Nonnecke (UC Berkeley) and Pamela San Martin (Supervisory Board)
As generative AI tools turn out to be more widely available—and cheaper and even free to make use of—they’re being misused by a spread of actors, including state actors, to create deepfakes and spread disinformation online. In this session, we’ll hear from experts about the varieties of deepfakes currently circulating online and a few possible ways to combat this threat.
“Open” or “Closed” AI — is one really higher?
with Ali Farhadi (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence), Irene Solaiman (Face hugging), and Shane Witnov (Finish)
There’s a war raging in the AI industry between advocates of open-source AI models—models released under a permissive license that may be tuned and reused across applications—and closed-source models, or models locked behind paid services and APIs. Is one approach higher than the other? The answer isn’t as straightforward because it might sound.
AI Cloud Race: What’s Happening Behind the Scenes
with Roman Chernin (Nebius AI)
The rapidly growing AI market will not be only giving rise to latest AI startups, but additionally fostering the emergence of specialised providers. The competition between cloud providers in the AI space is fierce. Roman will discuss how Nebius is doing on this race, what’s driving the company’s rapid growth, and what it takes to support AI innovators.
AI on Wheels with Zoox
with Jesse Levinson
Before generative AI became mainstream, the burgeoning autonomous vehicle technology industry was home to many machine learning and AI experts. Zoox Co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson, who has been on the subject for a decade, is now preparing Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company for its next big adventure.
Navigating the Legal and Ethical Minefield of Artificial Intelligence
with Aleksandra Pedraszewska (ElevenLabs), Sarah Myers West (AI now), Jinna Zhang (Tsar)
The explosion of AI has created latest ethical dilemmas and exacerbated old ones, while lawsuits are pouring in left and right. This threatens each latest and established AI corporations, in addition to the creators and employees whose work powers the models. A panel of experts on AI, copyright, and ethics weighs in on this complex and rapidly evolving issue.
What does artificial intelligence management appear to be today, tomorrow and in the future?
with Elizabeth Kelly (US Department of Commerce) and Scott Wiener (California Senate)
AI advances at a breakneck pace, but how briskly is just too fast? In this focus, US AI Safety Institute Director Elizabeth Kelly and California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), architect of California’s controversial AI safety bill SB 1047, discuss the must balance AI innovation with safeguards.
From Search Engines to Knowledge Engines: Perplexity Moves Towards an AI-Enabled Web
with Aravind Srinivas (Embarrassment)
Perplexity’s AI-powered search engine could also be the next step in how we interact with the web and knowledge on the whole—or it might not. But the company is actually risking every part to make that future a reality, even when it does cause a number of irritations along the way. Hear how the CEO plans to tackle all comers on this latest tech category.
But is it art? The evolving role of generative AI in music and video production
with Amit Jain (Forward AI), Mikey Shulman (sunny) and Kakul Srivastava (Tangle)
Generative AI is increasingly capable of making video, music, and other media on demand. But who actually wants it, and why? This panel of AI startups will discuss the growing markets for generative media and the way they will serve them without harming or displacing the artists they supposedly empower.
About TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is the place to seek out innovation at every stage of your startup journey. Whether you’re a first-time founder with a revolutionary idea, a seasoned startup seeking to scale, or an investor in search of the next big thing, TechCrunch Disrupt offers unparalleled resources, connections, and expert insights to assist your enterprise thrive. More than 10,000 startup, tech, and VC leaders will attend this 12 months’s event October 28–30 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
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It grows “open” AI Google, Gemma, grows.
While Google I/O 2025 On Tuesday, Google removed Gemma 3N compresses, a model designed for “liquid” on phones, laptops and tablets. According to Google, available in a preview starting on Tuesday, Gemma 3N can support sound, text, paintings and flicks.
Models efficient enough to operate in offline mode and without the necessity to calculate within the cloud have gained popularity within the AI community lately. They will not be only cheaper to make use of than large models, but they keep privacy, eliminating the necessity to send data to a distant data center.
During the speech to I/O product manager, Gemma Gus Martins said that GEMMA 3N can work on devices with lower than 2 GB of RAM. “Gemma 3N shares the same architecture as Gemini Nano, and is also designed for incredible performance,” he added.
In addition to Gemma 3N, Google releases Medgemma through the AI developer foundation program. According to Medgemma, it’s essentially the most talented model to research text and health -related images.
“Medgemma (IS) OUR (…) A collection of open models to understand the text and multimodal image (health),” said Martins. “Medgemma works great in various imaging and text applications, thanks to which developers (…) could adapt the models to their own health applications.”
Also on the horizon there may be SignGEMMA, an open model for signaling sign language right into a spoken language. Google claims that Signgemma will allow programmers to create recent applications and integration for users of deaf and hard.
“SIGNGEMMA is a new family of models trained to translate sign language into a spoken text, but preferably in the American sign and English,” said Martins. “This is the most talented model of understanding sign language in history and we are looking forward to you-programmers, deaf and hard communities-to take this base and build with it.”
It is value noting that Gemma has been criticized for non -standard, non -standard license conditions, which in accordance with some developers adopted models with a dangerous proposal. However, this didn’t discourage programmers from downloading Gemma models tens of tens of millions of times.
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President Donald Trump is predicted to sign the act on Take It Down, a bilateral law that introduces more severe punishments for distributing clear images, including deep wardrobes and pornography of revenge.
The Act criminalizes the publication of such photos, regardless of whether or not they are authentic or generated AI. Whoever publishes photos or videos can face penalty, including a advantageous, deprivation of liberty and restitution.
According to the brand new law, media firms and web platforms must remove such materials inside 48 hours of termination of the victim. Platforms must also take steps to remove the duplicate content.
Many states have already banned clear sexual desems and pornography of revenge, but for the primary time federal regulatory authorities will enter to impose restrictions on web firms.
The first lady Melania Trump lobbyed for the law, which was sponsored by the senators Ted Cruz (R-TEXAS) and Amy Klobuchar (d-minn.). Cruz said he inspired him to act after hearing that Snapchat for nearly a 12 months refused to remove a deep displacement of a 14-year-old girl.
Proponents of freedom of speech and a group of digital rights aroused concerns, saying that the law is Too wide And it will probably lead to censorship of legal photos, similar to legal pornography, in addition to government critics.
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While the general director of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, says that he likes podcasts, perhaps he didn’t take heed to them anymore.
That the treat is approaching at the end longer profile Bloomberg NadellaFocusing on the strategy of artificial intelligence Microsoft and its complicated relations with Opeli. To illustrate how much she uses Copilot’s AI assistant in her day by day life, Nadella said that as a substitute of listening to podcasts, she now sends transcription to Copilot, after which talks to Copilot with the content when driving to the office.
In addition, Nadella – who jokingly described her work as a “E -Mail driver” – said that it consists of a minimum of 10 custom agents developed in Copilot Studio to sum up E -Mailes and news, preparing for meetings and performing other tasks in the office.
It seems that AI is already transforming Microsoft in a more significant way, and programmers supposedly the most difficult hit in the company’s last dismissals, shortly after Nadella stated that the 30% of the company’s code was written by AI.
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